Your Gateway to the European Market
Legally Sound, Efficient, and Personal.

We support foreign businesses through every stage of their European expansion – from company formation to hiring your first employees. With offices in Berlin, Paris & Milano – personal legal advice, right where you need it.

Why Europe? Why Us?

- Europe offers stability, a vast market, and innovation potential
- Our experienced legal team understands the challenges international founders face
- Our offices in Berlin 🇩🇪, Paris 🇫🇷 and Milan 🇮🇹 ensure local expertise and face-to-face support

- Personal legal advice available in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and more

Our Services

International Legal Support

Thomas Milan Paris Berlin

You are planning tom expand your business to Germany, France or Italy? We are at your side with our expericence and skills. Supporting you with company creation, Human Resources, contracts, litigation, domiciliation and accounting services.

Our Fixed Fee Packages

Make Legal.Cool Again: 
We offer fixed fee packages for company creation and everything else to set up your business in Europe.

Startups & Scaleups

We support you with our extensive experience with young companies from the tech sector. We advise you on questions relating to founding, financing, HR matters, and all other relevant areas such as contract law, e-commerce law, data protection law, software law, trademark and copyright protection, as well as competition law.

Our Team

Raphael Thomas

Attorney-at-Law (Germany / France)

Vittorio De Vecchi Lajolo

Attorney-at-Law (Germany / Italy)
Data Protection Officer (TÜV)

Lea Kersting, LL.M. (Paris)

Attorney-at-Law (Germany)

Kay Witte

Attorney-at-Law (Germany)

Our Clients

Working with The Startup Lawyers when expanding to Germany is a refreshing and perfect experience.

The team is very reactive and delivering its services in German, French and English. Very helpful to have them as a partner when growing abroad.
Toussaint Wattine
Co-Founder & CEO at Upway
Highly qualified and reliable team with a fair pricing, happy to work with The Startup Lawyers in Germany!
Adélaïde Briffod
Head of Legal at PlayPlay
The Startup Lawyers have been a great partner for us in all aspects of contract and commercial law.

Their team always offers practical and reliable advice, and they’re there whenever we need them. We trust them completely and fully recommend their services!
Dr. Pablo Penny
Managing Director / Partner at Phiture
The Startup Lawyers are supporting us with Trademark and IP services in Germany. A responsive and multi-lingual young team, very refreshing to work with them!
Alban de Préville
Co-founder & CEO at Dalma
As Italian founders in Germany, we could never have managed the legal side of the start-up so quickly and easily. For us, responsiveness is everything, and here we found it!
Gaia Salizzoni
Founder & CEO at Hale
The Startup Lawyers have been our partners for the recruitment process of our employees in Germany.They have guided us through all the steps, they have given us answers to all our doubts and they have been our eyes in Germany in terms of labour compliance being a Spanish start-up.

We are very satisfied with all the support they have given us and they have been up to all the scenarios we have experienced.
Gabriela Rodriguez Masullo
People Manager at Shalion Data Services, Spain
We are satisfied with the support and professionalism of our lawyer Vittorio De Vecchi Lajolo of The Startup Lawyers.

His attention to detail, clarity in communicating legal terms and ability to understand our specific needs made the process simple and effective. A reliable partner for our company.
Pei Wang
Operation Director at Passione Beauty

Our Partners

Together with these partners, we drive innovation forward. We organize joint events and share our legal expertise with the members of our partners in workshops and seminars. Feel free to contact us if you would like to become part of our network.

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