Orrick and creditshelf Host Third Business Breakfast on Alternative Financing Measures for Medium-Sized Companies

Sponsored Event | March.15.2018 | 8:30am - 11:30am (Central European Standard Time)

Orrick Düsseldorf

Deutsch: Orrick und creditshelf veranstalten erneut Business Breakfast zum Thema alternative Finanzierungsformen für mittlere Unternehmen

Alternative forms of financing such as crowdfunding, (online) direct lending, factoring, finetrading and other forms of financing are becoming increasingly important and are thus changing the financing projects of German medium-sized companies. In the future, conventional banks and savings banks will no longer be solely responsible for the financing projects of German SMEs. For this reason, new suppliers, such as innovative FinTechs, will gain in significance in the market and will function as a useful complement to the traditional bank.

How does the house bank change in times of digitization? What is behind the term "Mittelstand Financing 4.0"?

At our event we offer you the opportunity to discuss these questions and to get in touch with representatives from various financing areas.

Talks include:

Opening remarks (by Dr. Sven Greulich, Partner at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP)
SME loans in times of digitization and the turnaround of interest rates (by Dr. Daniel Bartsch, founder & CEO, creditshelf GmbH)
Up to €100,000 in 24 hours – alternative financing without obstacles (by Oliver Schmid, CEO, iwoca Deutschland GmbH)
Liquidity on short notice: The digital future of factoring (by Dr. Christian Grobe, co-founder & CEO, Billie GmbH)

Following the talks there will be a Q&A panel and an opportunity for networking.

The event will be held in German language.

For further information please contact Sven Greulich.

Dr. Sven Greulich, LL.M. (Cantuar), EMBA パートナー, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology Companies Group

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Technology & Innovation Sector
Mergers and Acquisitions
Technology Companies Group

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Dr. Sven Greulich, LL.M. (Cantuar), EMBA パートナー

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His clients include technology companies of all stages as well as venture capital and corporate venture capital investors. Together with an international and interdisciplinary team, he also supports scaleups and multinationals in their expansion projects, with a particular focus on cross-border transactions between Germany and the USA.

Sven’s goal is to build bridges for his clients between Germany, Silicon Valley, and other international technology hubs, helping them achieve successful growth in the global market. His legal and business background, entrepreneurial spirit, and experience from more than 400 financing rounds and M&A projects across various industries enable him to fully understand his clients’ strategic and commercial objectives and to develop creative solutions to achieve them.

Sven volunteers with entrepreneur groups at the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, the RWTH Aachen, the Technical University of Munich and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; he regularly lectures at the WHU and the RWTH incubation and innovation centers. In 2020, he launched the Founder Legal Boot Camp, a unique free-of-charge seminar program that educates aspiring founding teams from technical and business universities about all relevant legal pitfalls in the areas of company formation, financing, and the initial growth phase. Organized in collaboration with Germany’s leading startup universities, the Founder Legal Boot Camp now takes place three times a year in Düsseldorf, Munich, and alternately in Karlsruhe/Stuttgart.

Sven's work has been repeatedly awarded, inter alia

Chambers ranks him as one of the top 3 venture capital lawyers in Germany (2025);
the leading German market publication JUVE - since 2019 - ranks Sven as one of Germanyʹs top 15 attorneys for venture capital, the highest recognition for this category awarded by JUVE (2025/2026);
Legal500 Deutschland includes Sven as “frequently recommended” for M&A (mid-sized deals) as well as private equity (mid-sized deals) and ranks him as a “leading partner” for venture capital (2025); and
Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers list Sven as a Best Lawyer in the category Venture Capital (2025), and Sven also received their award "Venture Capital Lawyer of the Year – Western Germany" (2025); and
in the 2017 edition of its Innovative Lawyers Report Europe, the Financial Times named Svenʹs work to connect start-ups with Germanyʹs Mittelstand (mid-sized companies) a standout “for making bridges between Silicon Valley and Germany”.