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Your experts for employee participation

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Dr. Christopher Hahn

Lawyer

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Kolja Czudnochowski

Founder & Consultant

ESOP-Direkt.de is a service of ESOP1 GmbH in close cooperation with the business law boutique trustberg.


Our mission is to advance the topic of employee participation in Germany and to create transparency in the process. We provide business and legal advice, draw up your customized contract and design solutions for the introduction and administration of your program.

Our
clients
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"As a small company, it was extremely important for us to prevent staff turnover and incentivize employees in the long term. The VSOP is perfect for this."
- Michaela M.
Managing Director @ Consulting
"Thanks to our VSOP, we were able to recruit our first key employees quickly - despite significantly more attractive salary offers from other companies."
- Dawid R.
Founder @ Tech Start-Up
"I came up with the idea of an extensive bonus program, which became an efficient but lean participation program during the consulting process."
- Olaf G.
Managing Director @ Marketing Agency
"Thanks to the truly entrepreneurial legal advice, we have set up a perfectly fitting participation program for our colleagues."
- Hannes T.
Partner @ architecture office

Our legal partner:
the law firm trustberg

trustberg is a business law boutique specializing in corporate law and venture capital with offices in Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt and Hamburg.

Our partner Dr. Christopher Hahn is himself a serial founder and entrepreneur as well as the author of leading books (e.g. "Virtuelle Mitarbeiterbeteiligungen"). He is therefore a proven expert in the introduction of employee participation and its legal implementation. He specializes in particular in the participation of employees, managers and other key persons.

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Locations (Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, ...)

Corporate law advice from a single source

We specialize in employee shareholdings, but our team also has expertise and experience in all other corporate law issues.

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Foundation consulting

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Financing rounds

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Legal Due Diligence

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Devesting

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Sales and M&A support

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Miscellaneous contract creation

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For start-ups (with/without investors)

For small businesses & agencies

For medium-sized companies

Excerpt of our publications

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Financing start-ups

published: SpringerGabler

Book cover of Essentials series: Virtuelle Mitarbeiterbeteiligung by Christopher Hahn, 3rd edition, published by Springer Gabler.
Virtual employee participation

published: SpringerGabler

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Venture Capital

published: SpringerGabler

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Our whitepaper

published: SpringerGabler

Our process

From initial contact to your investment program in just a few days.

1

Conversation to understand your needs

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We want to understand your company and your individual requirements in order to create your tailor-made participation program.

2

Personal consultation and preparation of contracts

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We advise you to find the right, targeted solution for your company & your employees - and draft the necessary contracts in a legal, appropriate and legally compliant manner.

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Sending of your immediately usable contract work

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Within a few days, we create your tailor-made participation program - immediately applicable, legally compliant and target-oriented.
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