Tweet Will Bankruptcies Drive M&A in Germany? My “big law” mates have been predicting a surge in M&A activity in 2010 for quite a while now. (They did foresee the same for the second half of 2009 and quickly set their sights on 2010.) So far nothing has happened – again. And indeed, some have […]
Author Archives: Christian
Startups und Legal Due Diligence
Tweet Wie bringt man kreative Köpfe zum Implodieren? Man schicke Ihnen eine Due Diligence Liste. So stelle ich mir jedenfalls den Moment vor, in dem Gründer Due Diligence Listen von VCs bekommen. Niemand mag den Papierkram. Dabei ist es in dem Bereich, den meist keiner versteht und der den Anwälten überlassen wird, der Legal Due […]
Restructuring Distressed VC Deals
Tweet I turned to my news feed and hacked “VC restructuring” into the search. I got a couple of hundred hits returning posts on bankruptcy and fire sales for instance to distressed asset investors and the likes (as usual TechCrunch has got it all covered – in one post). All of the above are less-than-ideal […]
Checklist Intellectual Property
Tweet I am mainly involved with VC deals in the web services sector. The targets rely on intellectual property (IP). Sometimes it is the foundation of their business model. Inhouse development can be found next to third party and open source code. In most cases VCs are the first to raise awareness among founders to […]
Checklist Gesellschafterdarlehen
Tweet I have promised you Mus’ musings but instead I will kick the 2010 version of my blog off with a dig into my legal docs. I have come up with my checklist on shareholder loans. Lingo I haven’t quite figured out yet whether German or English will be the language of my choice throughtout […]