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Legal & IP Desk

Legal essentials and IP made easy

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A solid legal foundation from the beginning

Legal topics, paperwork and administering industrial property rights are important parts of a successful business. Startups face issues regarding employment contracts, patents, trade marks, shareholder agreements, taxation, and many more on a constant basis. That is why it is crucial to have a good legal guidance and intellectual property professional on your side to support you on your entrepreneurial journey.

Legal Partners

Our swiss partner

Altenburger Ltd legal + tax

Altenburger Ltd legal + tax is a business law firm with a history of 50 years and offices in Küsnacht–Zurich, Geneva, and Lugano. Our multilingual team offers full-service legal and tax advice with strong international reach with our partner firms around the globe.

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Our swiss partner

ATTESTA Schweizer Zertifizierungsgesellschaft

ATTESTA guides their customers to successful ISO certification. Their experience is based on both standard requirements and business contexts.

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Our swiss partner

E. Blum

E. Blum AG is a premier IP law firm advising on patents, trademarks, designs, as well as cooperation and licensing agreements. Our attorneys have expertise from AI to biotech, with five being Innosuisse IP Coaches, specializing in guiding startups from inception to exit or IPO. You can find more information on our webpage eblum.ch
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Our Swiss partner

Eversheds Sutherland

Eversheds Sutherland supports your start-up in an efficient and need-based manner from the founding, over the expansion phase up to the exit. Providing a range of services, no matter where and in which language. Since we think as entrepreneurs ourselves, we are in a position to be at your company’s side on the road to success with attractive fee models to overcome every challenge together with you!

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Our Swiss partner

Fehr Legal

Fehr Legal works with top entrepreneurs and investors in Swiss high-growth ventures to structure financing rounds and remove venture killers. We blend legal expertise, dealcraft and practical venture experience so startups scale fast and raise from leading investors.

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Our swiss partner

IGE/IPI - Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property

IGE/IP is the federal government’s central point of contact for all questions concerning patents, trademarks, geographical designations of origin, design protection and copyright. You can protect your IP from being plagiarised. As a result, your innovations and creations become a tradeable commodity, which you can sell, license or pledge.

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Our swiss partner

Kellerhals Carrard

Kellerhals Carrard’s Startup Desk believe in supporting innovative young entrepreneurs in Switzerland and strives to contribute to your success from a legal point of view with the same passion and commitment as you. We have already supported numerous startups in a broad range of fields, i.a. in the foundation stage, with financing rounds and in Exit transactions.

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Our swiss partner

Konsento

A capital increase is a complex and time-consuming process. We have therefore developed a platform that allows you to complete all formal and legal tasks simply, efficiently and correctly in a structured process. Thanks to our intelligent platform, you do not need any prior legal knowledge. With us, you can carry out your next capital increase faster and up to 50% cheaper compared to previous approaches.

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Our swiss partner

LEXR

LEXR is a law firm for tech companies with offices in Switzerland and Germany that advises growth companies and investors across Switzerland, the EU and the US. More than 1,000 growth companies already trust the firm, which specializes in technology, innovation, and practical, business-oriented legal advice. LEXR supports companies through all stages of growth, from first funding to exit, and provides guidance on complex transactions and strategic growth initiatives.
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Mathys & Squire

Our swiss partner

Mathys & Squire

Mathys & Squire is a European IP law firm with a dedicated Swiss start-up team devoted to building global protection for your ideas. We are rooted in the largest hubs for IP protection in Europe and have over 110 years of experience in optimising global protection and commercialisation of IP rights.

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Our swiss partner

Prager Dreifuss

Our startup team will help you with all the legal matters associated with forming and building up a company. Whether it’s a case of choosing the appropriate legal form, employee participation, concluding rounds of financing with the right investors or protecting intellectual property: we’ll be pleased to help and will take the strain off you as far as the legal issues are concerned.

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Our swiss partner

schochauer Attorneys at Law

schochauer is a fully-fledged business law firm that currently employes approx. 20 skilled and experienced lawyers who advise our clients in all areas of Swiss business law, ranging from corporate and commercial (including M&A, private equity, and startups) over contract, employment, litigation, intellectual property, real estate to tax law.
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Our swiss partner

Walder Wyss Attorneys at Law

The Walder Wyss start-up desk makes our industry experi­ence, knowledge and expertise available to young entrepreneurs and their start-ups and supports them through all phases from the sparking idea to the exit or IPO.

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Our swiss partner

Wenger & Vieli

The Wenger Vieli Startup Desk consider young entrepreneurs and startups our core business and are passionate to support these game-changers. With a strong focus on technology-based startups and venture capital, we are committed to investing in the success of your business.
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MEMBERS BENEFIT

Claim your free 30min legal consultation

The consultation is free for the first 30 minutes. You will be made aware of any costs by the lawyer in advance.

  • There is no obligation for you as a startup.
  • The lawyer does not draw up contracts within the 30 minutes consultation period.
  • The lawyer does not revise nor finalise any legal documents received from a startup within the 30 minutes consultation period.
  • The consultation time is not intended for the lawyer to answer as many decision questions (yes or no) as possible.
  • You decide if you want to further engage with the lawyer apart from the initial free 30 minutes.

Legal Templates

Do you need help coming up with a contract?

Our legal partners (Badertscher, Wenger Vieli, Eversheds Sutherland, and Kellerhals Carrard) have provided us and you with some useful legal templates so you can focus on making your customers happy instead of on legal jargon. Below you can find templates for employment contracts, loan agreements, and Non-disclosure agreements in English and German.

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Startup Knowledge Base

Articles on various legal issues

Managing Shareholders’ Agreements
How Startups Should Navigate Shareholders’ Agreements
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12 Pitfalls That Can Undermine Your General Meeting – And How to Avoid Them
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Why IP Protection Starts with Strong Contract Clauses — Not Just Patents
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