Startup Legal Survival Guide: Navigating Common Pitfalls with Confidence | Walder Wyss

Workshop Description:
Whether you're about to incorporate, have already taken the leap or even secured external funding - the journey is adventurous and alongside the opportunities, it also harbours risks (including legal ones). As seasoned VC lawyers, we understand the legal challenges that every startup faces on its path to success. Based on real life cases from our daily practice, we would like to introduce you to some of the most frequent challenges and discuss how to best anticipate and master them. After all, success isn’t just about innovation - it’s also about strategy.

Speaker:
Marion Bähler is a partner in in Walder Wyss’ corporate/M&A team and a long-standing member of the firm’s startup desk. Her preferred areas of practice include M&A, corporate, contract, stock exchange and capital market law. One focus of her work is on private equity and venture capital transactions. She regularly advises start-ups and investors on the entire range of venture capital aspects, including financing rounds, acquisitions, participation plans (ESOPs) and exits. She further advises companies on general corporate law matters, corporate governance and other legal issues surrounding their daily business.

Michael Kündig is a managing associate in Walder Wyss’ corporate/M&A team and a long-standing member of the firm’s startup desk. He regularly advises on private M&A transactions and also has a particular focus with regard to representing founders, investors and other stakeholders in emerging and growth companies. Michael’s regularly advises VC, growth capital and PE investors as well as start-ups and emerging growth companies. Michael publishes in his areas of practice, is a lecturer at universities of applied sciences in Switzerland and serves as expert and coach in Innosuisse Startup Trainings.