full-service approach

All From One Source. Results-Driven.

Corporate, Employment & Tax working together seamlessly. We secure the best possible outcome – efficiently, strategically, and with your interests first.

SEASON5 IS A NEXT-GENERATION LAW FIRM

advising tech startups, venture capital investors, and funds across Europe and beyond. Founded by entrepreneurs, we combine top-tier legal expertise with a deep understanding of venture ecosystems, growth strategies, and the realities of scaling companies.

We don’t hand files between departments. Corporate, tax and employment law sit in the same room – because the questions founders and investors face rarely stay in one lane. We give you one team that sees the whole picture, from first round to exit.

Deal announcements

  • season5 advising a German travel and hospitality startup on international employment law across 12 countries, including full project management.
  • season5 advising a German hotel group on a contentious works council election, including interim injunction proceedings and formal election challenge.
  • season5 advising a German travel scale-up on a cross-border, multi-jurisdiction employment law restructuring across several European countries, including the planned conversion into a European Company (SE).
  • season5 advising a fast-growing German consumer brand on the conversion of their CLA round led by a strategic investor — covering all corporate and employment law aspects of the transaction, including structuring, implementation and closing.
  • season5 advising a German longevity startup on the entry of an international venture capital investor via a convertible loan agreement.
  • season5 advising Caesar Ventures on their pre-seed investment into Celsio GmbH, an energy sector startup.
  • season5 advising a European venture capital fund on an equity financing round into an Austrian logistics tech startup, building on an existing relationship across multiple prior transactions.
  • season5 advising an international venture capital fund on the financing of a Danish health tech startup — covering corporate structuring and transaction execution.
  • season5 advising Caesar Ventures, HPI Ventures, Adesso Ventures and 10XFounders on the seed financing round of AI startup Qorelo – covering corporate and employment law.
  • season5 advising NALU GmbH with their seed-round, onboarding two top business angels, Patrick Funke and Michelle Calios.
  • season5 advising the Sanity Group GmbH on its acquisition by Organigram Global. Deal volume: EUR 250 million.

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contact@season5.law

+49 151 40187618

katharina.erbe@season5.law

+49 151 15245089

Katharina Erbe

Katharina advises founders, investors and companies on corporate law — across venture capital financings, M&A transactions and the structural questions that arise at every stage of a company's life, from first round to exit.
With over eleven years of experience on every side of the table — founder-side, investor-side, buy-side, sell-side — she brings something that can't be shortcut: the judgment that comes from seeing how deals actually play out, not just how they read on paper.

Her specialty is the work that looks routine until it isn't. The leaver clause nobody thought would matter. The housekeeping item that surfaces in due diligence. The GP departure that doesn't fit any template. These are the moments Katharina is regularly brought in for — and the ones she navigates best.

Focus areas: Corporate · Venture Capital · M&A · Founder & Investor Counsel · Fund-Level Exits · GP Departures · Leaver Cases · ESOP / VSOP · Corporate Housekeeping

→ Full profile: Katharina Erbe

max.weber@season5.law

+49 157 59619912

Dr. Max Weber

Max advises founders, investors and companies at the intersection of corporate and tax law — across venture capital financings, M&A transactions and the structuring of investments and employee participation programmes.
Dually qualified as a Rechtsanwalt and Steuerberater, he brings something still rare in the market: the instincts of a transactional lawyer combined with the technical depth of a tax advisor. One person. Both lenses. From first round to exit.

Focus areas: Corporate · Venture Capital · M&A · Tax Structuring · ESOP / VSOP / PPRs · Cross-border Transactions · Founder & Investor Counsel

→ Full profile: Dr. Max Weber

antonia.volhard@season5.law

+49 157 71419137

Antonia Volhard

Antonia advises founders, investors and companies at the intersection of corporate and employment law -  two disciplines that rarely stay in their lanes, and at most firms, rarely talk to each other.
She started in venture capital financing before moving into employment law, where she found her specialty: the cases where the corporate file and the employment file turn out to be the same file. Co-founder exits. Senior hires with equity. Restructurings that change who owns what. These are the moments most firms handle by routing to two separate teams. Antonia handles them as one.

Focus areas: Corporate · Venture Capital · Employment Law · Co-founder Leaver Events · Corporate Housekeeping · Restructuring · Founder & Investor Counsel

→ Full profile: Antonia Volhard

luisa.roedemer@season5.law

+49 151 40187618

Dr. Luisa Rödemer

Luisa advises startups, scale-ups and international companies on employment law — with a focus on the intersections that matter most: cross-border expansions, complex restructurings, participation structures and the grey zone between employment, corporate and social security law.
Her clients range from early-stage founders figuring out their first hires and contracts for managing directors and co-founders to listed companies restructuring across multiple jurisdictions. Her specialty is the space where a clean legal answer isn't enough and where employment law, corporate law and tax have to work together.

Focus areas: Employment Law · Cross-border Expansion · Restructuring · ESOP / VSOP / Genussrechte · Shareholder-Managing Directors · C-Level Advisory

→ Full profile: Dr. Luisa Rödemer

info@season5.law

+49 30 123 456 789

Henry

Meet Henry, our Italian water dog and the emotional center of gravity at season5. He doesn't bark - that would be far too ordinary. Instead, he communicates through an elaborate repertoire of sounds that sits somewhere between conversation, opera and gentle complaint, deployed with perfect timing and complete conviction.
His greeting protocol is non-negotiable: whoever enters the office is welcomed as though returning from a long and harrowing journey. He will find a toy. He will bring it. He will make eye contact that says I thought about you every single day. Whether you've been gone for three weeks or twelve minutes is entirely irrelevant.
The petting, he considers a professional matter. The singing, a public service.

Focus areas: Arrival Ceremonies · Emotional Support · Ambient Joy · Morale Infrastructure