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The German Federal Government has given an important insight to its plans and future measures regarding taxation of the start-up- and VC-ecosystem.

In einer Zeit immer kürzerer Innovationszyklen und der zunehmenden Digitalisierung vieler Wertschöpfungsketten müssen sich etablierte Unternehmen ständig weiterentwickeln...

Last year the German Government introduced a program to support venture seed and pre-seed investments into innovative start-ups from private investors.

VC-raising through a U.S. entity may result in disclosure of hidden assets.

Oppenhoff has once again comprehensively advised the EIC Fund on its investments in Germany. This time, the EIC Fund invested together with Dieter von Holzbrink Ventures (DvH Ventures)...

On April 9, 2025, the German Christian Democrats (CDU) and Social Democrats (SPD) finalized a coalition agreement after the snap elections in February.

Berlin is becoming the Continent’s top start-up destination

Here you can find another M&A update due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the last year of the current Grand Coalition, the German Federal Ministry of Finance has made a remarkable proposal: an Act to Strengthen Germany as a Fund Jurisdiction.

Germanys Supreme Tax Court (BHF) recently published two decisions dealing with the income tax treatment of Management Equity Plans (MEP), in which the court confirmed its established case law.

Europas Venture-Capital-Markt steht vor einer großen Bewährungsprobe: Zinswende und wirtschaftliche Unsicherheiten machen es Start-ups und Wachstumsunternehmen deutlich schwerer...

Management- und Mitarbeiterbeteiligungen sollen eine wirtschaftliche Teilhabe am Erfolg des Unternehmens vermitteln. Sie schaffen interest alignment mit den Gesellschaftern und bilden daher ein effektives...

Interest of the financial services industry in environmental, social and governance matters has surged in recent years driven mainly by rapid regulatory developments and the rising investors' awareness about the climate change ...

2023 has been another challenging year for the private equity (PE) industry. Macro-economic uncertainties that caused headwinds throughout 2022 have persisted throughout 2023...

Yesterday, ESMA has published a discussion paper on key concepts of the AIFMD (the "Discussion Paper") and invited comments to specific questions raised.

A German Investment Act and Investment Tax Act came in into effect in early 2004.

The so-called Act to Strengthen Germany as a Fund Jurisdiction added an exemption to the German VAT Act from VAT for management services rendered to "venture capital funds" (Wagniskapitalfonds) with effect from 1 July 2021.