Partner
Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), EMBA (M&A), Graduate in Business Administration
Venture Capital & Start-ups
Venture Capital opens up opportunities – for investors as well as for start-ups. Financing rounds, investments and exits require well-founded decisions. With our interdisciplinary expertise, we are the perfect trusted partner for venture capital and corporate venture investors, family offices and start-ups – from the first investment to a successful exit. Our strengths for your success: many years of start-up experience, comprehensive Venture Capital know-how and in-depth industry understanding
Johannes Marco Holz, LL.M.
Partner
Attorney at Law (Germany), Data Protection Officer (GDDcert.EU), Master of Laws in Legal Informatics (University of Passau), Specialist lawyer for information technology law
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We pave the way when you …
- … want to successfully implement your business model as a start-up.
- … want to legally, fiscally and economically analyze, evaluate and structure financing rounds.
- … want to professionally set up, review and fiscally optimize investment models such as ESOP/VSOP.
- … want to strengthen trust with investors and banks.
- … want to position yourself as a start-up ready for transactions and convince investors.
- … want to tap into new markets.
- … want to use subsidies efficiently.
- … want to support your growth strategy through targeted process optimization.
- … want to prepare for a planned exit and set the right course for sales processes or IPO Readiness.
Our expertise for your field of activity
Corporate Finance
We support investors and start-ups along the entire investor cycle – from financing rounds to Business Valuation to exit strategies. This also includes Transaction Services such as Financial Due Diligence, Unternehmensbewertungen im Rahmen von Beteiligungen sowie die strukturierte Begleitung von Investments und Exits. Well-founded, practical and interdisciplinary.
Legal advice
Invest securely: From term sheets to investment documents to exits. We draft and review contracts, accompany notary appointments and take over the antitrust review. In addition, we support start-ups in the legal structuring of the business model – for sustainable growth.
Tax consulting
We structure investments and financing models in a tax-optimized manner, design ESOP/VSOP programs and support investors and start-ups in all tax issues. Reliable, comprehensive and with foresight.
Audit & Assurance
We support start-ups and investors from the first audit to the exit – understandably, in partnership and tailored to the respective situation. Whether it’s annual and consolidated financial statement audits according to HGB or IFRS, subsidy audits or audits taking into account specific legal framework conditions, for example for investment management companies: We audit with well-coordinated teams, create clarity and thus strengthen trust in the market.
Our services for Venture Capital & Start-up Consulting
1stMOVER X RÖDL
1stMOVER X RÖDL: Partnership for effective open innovation
Together with 1stMOVER, we combine implementation skills and transaction expertise to make open innovation strategically and operationally successful.
Since 2009, 1stMOVER has been helping companies to think about and implement open innovation in a structured way. Rödl complements the partnership with legal, tax and financial expertise as well as transaction-related advice – especially for cross-border collaborations.
This results in a comprehensive approach: from the strategic selection of suitable formats and the definition of appropriate cooperation and transaction models to legally compliant, tax-optimised and economically sound implementation.
1stMOVER X RÖDL
Gemeinsam mit 1stMOVER haben wir einen praxisnahen Leitfaden entwickelt, der methodische Umsetzungskompetenz mit rechtlicher und transaktionsbezogener Expertise vereint – für ein strategisch fundiertes, wirtschaftlich tragfähiges und rechtssicheres Open Innovation Vorgehensmodell.