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Innovation & start-ups

Law Firm in the Netherlands specialised in Innovation & start-ups

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How do you turn a brilliant idea into a successful product or enterprise? And how do you make your innovation successful without putting much time and energy in the legal and tax driven structures, legal traps and the small print?

Meet us, the lawyers, civil law notaries and tax advisors of CMS. We provide and develop tailor made legal services for promising young innovative enterprises. In every phase an enterprise finds itself, we provide the best advice. Furthermore, we put our know-how and the extensive worldwide network of CMS at disposal. In this network future clients, business partners, employees and mentors can be found. That helps. In this manner CMS contributes as trusted advisor to your success and innovation in the Netherlands.

We, the CMS Innovation Advocates, co-operate closely in a team and are well attuned to each other. We are experienced and each have a unique specialism. Jointly we service the all legal aspects, from the start up to and including the world wide success: incorporation of the legal entity, protection and maintaining of intellectual property, tax advice, participation by investors, (the first) employees, client and supplier contracts, etcetera.

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04/09/2019
Tokenized Assets: Finance innovation leading to new ways to invest
What asset classes are best suited to tokenization? How to persuade management into tokenized investments? Private investor Robert Nass; Maven11 Head of Investments and Trading, Balder Bomans; Frijt CEO...
03/07/2019
CMS is releasing its Tokenized Assets Podcast Series
The former chairman of Nasdaq, Robert Greifeld, predicted in 2017 that in five years' time all stocks and bonds on Wall Street will be tokenized. Since then, the use of tokenization has been increasing...
02/05/2019
Partner or buy if you can't DIY
Organic growth and innovation are increasingly hard to come by. Large companies are progressively acquiring or collaborating with more nimble and younger startups. However, acquiring another business...
24/10/2018
Partner or buy if you can’t DIY
This article summarises a panel discussion at the CMS annual Technology, Media and Communications Conference 2018. There is currently no shortage of large global corporates setting up incubation and innovation...
24/10/2018
Initial Coin Offerings – An insight into the regulatory environment
Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are an innovative way for companies – usually start-ups – to raise money from the public. In an ICO, a business or individual issues coins or tokens which are sold in...
18/06/2018
Innovation round-up
The impact of new technologies on the business environment is game-changing. At CMS, we work with technology pioneers who are driving this change. SUPPORTING STARTUPS THROUGH EQUIP First launched in the...
25/05/2018
Media giants disrupt market with content sharing deal
In a world where ‘content is king’, the battle among media companies for the rights to screen original entertainment and live sporting events has never been more intense. When broadcast giants BT...
06/10/2017
CMS wins at FT Innovative Lawyer Awards 2017 ranking 8th in the Top50
CMS were shortlisted in five categories at this year’s FT Innovative Lawyer Awards winning for their work advising the Electronic Sports League in the creation of a new governing body, the World eSports...
08/02/2017
CMS start-ups
Budgeting for quality legal advice is often not high on an entrepreneur’s list of priorities when starting a business. But timely advice from experienced legal professionals can be crucial in starting...