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Let's grow together

Found & grow with the Donhauser Startup Consulting

External legal department, online course for founders, legal counsel as a service, roundtable, startup community knowledge blog and much more!

Founder mentoring

In our coaching, you will learn everything you need to know to set up your startup.

Legal Counsel as a Service

Get support from an experienced lawyer at your side, such as an external legal department.

Startup advice

As a lawyer for startups, Daniel Donhauser and his team advise on founding, financing, growth and exit with a focus on increasing value.

Startups & Emerging Growth

Our focus is on increasing value!

The challenges faced by aspiring, young companies require lawyers who are available as partners and are familiar with the legal and economic needs of innovative start-ups with high growth potential — whether in terms of setups, structuring, funding, expansion, or exit.

With our expertise in advising on company sales and investments, we help founders to set up and prepare everything for financing or exit right from the start.

Free initial consultation

Startup Education

We offer a range of opportunities for founders and startups to achieve the best possible result at every stage. In addition to classic legal and tax advice, we also offer training, coaching and a community to ideally support and promote tomorrow's SMEs.

expertise

LAWYER DANIEL DONHAUSER

is solicitor for corporate law and specialist in corporate finance. As a lawyer for investors and start-ups, he knows both sides:
1. How investors think and what they pay attention to when financing.
2. What needs start-ups have, which mistakes are made and which topics often receive little attention.

As lecturer He regularly provides founders with legal and financial know-how, as well as the appropriate strategy so that they can grow safely and without errors and achieve a higher valuation. As Legal Counsel advises Daniel Donhauser on setting up and growing their companies. A particular focus is on strategic advice on financing rounds, employee participation and growth. In Venture Classroom He teaches all legal and business questions about setting up and building companies in a rapidly growing environment with a view to a venture case.

Daniel Donhauser
350+
supervised
clients
50+
accompanied
Financing rounds
100 million
negotiated
VC & M&A Deals
300 %
achieved
Business valuation
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Legal Counsel
As a Service

Issue:
Lawyers act “matter-specifically,” business consultants are not allowed to provide legal advice, tax advisors do not design and in-house counsel are too expensive.

solution:
Legal Counsel as a Service As a founder, you need an advisor who is familiar with all aspects of your venture and who can also solve legal problems.

Leistungsspektrum: Rechtsberatung, Strategie, Company Building, Netzwerk & Investments
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Knowledge & Strategy

1st setup

We develop the appropriate legal and tax setup. This varies depending on the business model, team and strategy.

2nd Strategy

We then look at your “next steps” strategically and provide advice with a view to the future in order to expand projects using decision-making tools.

3rd Company Building

We help you set the course for the right investor search and set up a VC case together.

4. legal advice

We will provide you with legal advice on all matters relevant to start-ups and negotiate and draw up contracts.

5. Network & Investments

As a sparring partner, we discuss your decisions and implement your “next steps” with the help of our network of consultants, lawyers and investors.

Founder Mentoring

The #1 online course for Building your start-up

Build your business quickly and securely. Get legal knowledge, experience and know-how without paying a lot of money for lawyers and consultants.

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Find out in mentorship Everything you need to know and consider about founding, financing, growing and exiting your company.

Regardless of whether you are a sole proprietor, founder, start-up or scale-up, every phase is in Venture Classroom dedicated to a separate chapter, with many individual videos.

Choice of legal form & venture classroom, tax optimization & holding, company formation & hedging, vesting & employee participation, financing rounds & exit, and much more

  • Choice of legal form
  • Tax optimization & holding
  • Business creation & insurance
  • Vesting & employee participation
  • Financing & exit
  • and much more
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Venture Round Table

Be part of the community!

Once a month, we exchange ideas in a live call and discuss a topic or a case. You can ask questions or simply listen and benefit from the experience of others.

Thematically appropriate, a case is presented and discussed on the basis of tax, legal, entrepreneurial and actual circumstances, knowledge is expanded and experiences are shared.

Mutual networking, legal consultation and community in one!

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Legal advice from Donhauser Law

  • excellent legal support
  • Strategy & Design
  • individual care
  • economic expertise
  • modern, digital & effective
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mentorship

  • individual care
  • up to 90% cost savings
  • online course
  • Live Calls
  • deductible and fundable
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Legal Counsel as a Service

  • external general counsel
  • Advisory & Advisory Board
  • Legal & Strategy Consulting
  • flexible compensation models
  • aimed at increasing value
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