Founder Legal Boot Camp
2025 Rhine/Ruhr Edition

This will be the sixth edition of Orrick’s Founder Legal Boot Camp in our Düsseldorf office, – again together with RWTH Innovation, WHU Entrepreneurship Center and TUM Venture Labs.

We share lessons learned from working with countless start-ups with the focus on:

• Founder Team Composition and Founder Equity Split
• Getting Incorporated
• Start-up Financing – Overview, Convertible Loan Financings, Equity Financings and Term Sheet Deep Dives
• IP Must-haves
• Expensive Tax Pitfalls in the Early Stages
• AI Business Models – Getting the Legal Stuff Right
• Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Must-haves
• Employment Law Must-haves
• U.S. German Holding Structures and the Delaware Flip and Brief Overview Over U.S. Market Entry Projects
• University IP Spin-outs
• Employee Stock Option Plans (Virtual Programs, Hurdle Shares and Sec. 19a EStG Shares)

Please note that the 'Founder Team Composition' and 'Founder Equity Split' sessions, as well as the 'Getting Incorporated' session, will take place as part of two online-only pre-events on Tuesday 9 September and Wednesday 10 September, from 6:00pm to 7:00pm each day.

If you are interested to attend, please contact Sven Greulich. Please note that only those who have registered and whose participation has been confirmed can attend.

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