Basic Danish law for startups

Founder & Partner of Integra Law on top 3 important legal areas.

#1: Intellectual Property Rights
Make sure the company owns the rights to products, ideas etc. developed by staff and partners of your startup.

#2: The ownership agreement
This is the first document you create, and it should secure the company in case of any future disagreements between the partners.

#3: Tax
You need to decide which company structure you need, this depends on your short term expectations for revenue, how much cash you can put into the company and what sort of financial risk you are willing to take.

Background
Kim G. Hansen is founding partner of Integra Law. He practices mostly within IT-law and represents i.e. a number of major Danish hardware distributors and IT-service providers, a well-known Scandinavian telecommunications company, several hosting providers and computer gaming companies.

By Martin Kubert, mk@venturecup.dk