Founder Legal Boot Camp
2026 Southwest Edition

This was the tenth edition of Orrick’s Founder Legal Boot Camp: Together with KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Stuttgart Transfer Center (TRACES) and TUM Venture Labs (Munich and Heilbronn) we brought the FLBC to the southwest, again in cooperation with RWTH Innovation and WHU Entrepreneurship Center. Having been guests at the University of Stuttgart last year, this year's FLBC Southwest took place at KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

We shared lessons learned from working with countless start-ups and focused on, amongst others:

• Founder Team Composition and Founder Equity Split*
• Getting Incorporated*
• Start-up Financing Overview and Convertible Loan Financings
• Term Sheet Deep Dive – Equity Financings
• Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Must-Haves
• IP Must-Haves for University Spin-offs
• Case Studies for AI Business Models
• Employment Law Must-Haves
• Expensive Tax Pitfalls in the Early Stages
• U.S. German Holding Structures and the Delaware Flip
• Employee Stock Option Plans (Virtual Programs, Hurdle Shares and Sec. 19a EStG Shares)

*These two sessions were covered in online-only pre-events on the evening of Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 March.

Click here to view the Event Booklet including the final agenda, description of the topics, participant feedback from previous FLBCs and speaker short bios.

For some impressions from the event, see our LinkedIn recap post here.

For all upcoming editions of the Founder Legal Boot Camp, click here.