0.5 monthly salaries per year? A widespread misconception.
In reality that’s only an empirical value – without an unfair-dismissal claim you often walk away with nothing. Our partner lawyers negotiate upward from the 0.5 base. No risk for you – we only earn from the extra that is secured additionally for you.
The gain comparison
Example: €4,000 monthly salary · 10 years at the company
Without a claim — often 0 €
Classic lawsuit
With Team Abfindung
This is how you often leave a lot of money on the table.
- Classic lawsuit (factor 0.5)* — €20,000
- Your base (factor 0.5) — €20,000
- Your net plus — +€8,400
- Our share — €3,600*
- Your extra — +€12,000
How the example adds up:
- 1. Your base (factor 0.5): €4,000 × 10 × 0.5 = €20,000
- 2. Lawyers achieve severance (factor 0.875): €35,000
- 3. − Statutory lawyer fees (estimate): €3,000
- 4. − Our share (30 % of the extra): €3,600
- 5. = €28,400 for you*
+€8,400 more for you
In the example: €28,400 for you — instead of often 0 €.
*In our experience, many employers pay little or no severance without an unfair-dismissal claim; there is no legal entitlement to a severance. Example simplified (4,000 € gross, 10 years), after deducting statutory lawyer fees – no legal entitlement.
You get more – we only earn from your extra.
You never end up in the red.
We carry the cost risk – court, our own and any opposing lawyer fees (first instance). No success? You pay 0 €.
When you win, YOU earn first.
Never more from your extra than agreed. The base is an empirical value (0.5 × monthly salary × years, no legal entitlement). Only what our partner lawyers secure above that, after lawyer fees, is your extra – and we only earn from that.
Our share is capped.
Often the severance achieved is close to the empirical value – then, in our experience, you only pay the minimum share of 892.50 € incl. 19 % VAT (750 € net).
How much more can you secure?
Move the slider and see your result grow with a better negotiation factor – and that our share always stays a small part of your extra.
Move the factor – the better our partner lawyers negotiate, the more stays with you.
Your total result: €22,572.00 for you
+€9,464.50 additional plus (versus the 0.5 base)Already includes the deduction of our share and the estimated statutory lawyer fees (RVG estimate). Our share is capped. Non-binding example calculation based on empirical values – only the litigation-funding agreement is binding.
Cost control: your upside is open – our share is capped.
No matter how high your severance turns out: our share of your extra is contractually limited – to a maximum of 5,771.50 € incl. VAT (4,850 € net). So you always keep the lion’s share.
Why it pays to act now
No claim, no entitlement
There is no legal entitlement to a severance. In our experience, many employers only pay once an unfair-dismissal claim is on the table.
3-week deadline
An unfair-dismissal claim must be filed within 3 weeks of receiving the termination (§ 4 KSchG). After that it becomes much harder.
No risk for you
We advance all costs. You take no financial risk – worst case, you pay 0 €.
For those who want to know exactly
Our share is 30 % of the added value, at least 892.50 € incl. VAT (750 € net) and at most 5,771.50 € incl. VAT (4,850 € net). Often the severance achieved is close to the empirical value – then, in our experience, the minimum share applies.
As a starting point we use an empirical value (the base severance): 0.5 × gross monthly salary × years of employment. This is not a legal entitlement but an empirical value from our practice. Everything we secure above that, after deducting statutory lawyer fees, is the added value – and our share is calculated on that alone.
The statutory legal costs are paid first out of the severance – automatically via the law firm's escrow account. You advance nothing and don't have to worry about a thing.
We calculate our share only on the actual added value above your base severance – after deducting lawyer fees. The bigger your success, the more stays with you.
- Monthly salary (gross)
- 4,000 €
- Length of employment
- 10 years
- Base severance (empirical value: 0.5 × years × gross monthly salary = 4,000 € × 5)
- 20,000 €
- Severance actually achieved by our lawyers
- 35,000 €
- Difference (35,000 € − 20,000 €)
- 15,000 €
- Less approx. statutory lawyer fees
- − 3,000 €
- Added value achieved (15,000 € − 3,000 €)
- 12,000 €
- Team Abfindung share (30 % of added value)
- 3,600 € net
You go home with
28,400 €
35,000 € severance − 3,000 € lawyer fees − 3,600 € share
Simplified example, net amounts. The base severance of 20,000 € mentioned is an empirical value from our practice and not a legal entitlement. All figures are illustrative; the actual amount depends on the individual case.
Only the litigation financier's participation is compared – the statutory legal costs apply additionally with every provider.
Our share (usually)
892.50 € incl. VAT
Their participation
1,500–2,000 €
Our share is at least 892.50 € incl. VAT (750 € net) and at most 5,771.50 € incl. VAT (4,850 € net). For standard outcomes only the minimum share usually applies; our share is firmly capped at the top – your upside is not.
This page summarizes our model in simplified form. Only the provisions in the litigation financing agreement are binding.