{"id":2660,"date":"2026-06-01T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sawaryn.com\/uslugi\/corporate-and-investment-consulting-in-the-game-development-industry\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:25:22","slug":"corporate-and-investment-consulting-in-the-game-development-industry","status":"publish","type":"service","link":"https:\/\/sawaryn.com\/en\/uslugi\/corporate-and-investment-consulting-in-the-game-development-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate and Investment Consulting in the Game Development Industry"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We help gaming studios and development teams establish a secure ownership, decision-making, and investment model-so that the company can grow without the chaos, conflicts, and risks that hinder funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"specialization":[1209],"practice_area":[],"class_list":["post-2660","service","type-service","status-publish","hentry","specialization-gaming-game-development"],"acf":{"short_description":"We help gaming studios and development teams build a secure ownership, decision-making and investment model, enabling the business to grow without the chaos, conflicts and risks that can block financing.","full_description":"Put your studio structure in order before an investor comes on board<\/strong>\n\nWe help gaming studios and project teams build a secure ownership, decision-making and investment model - so the company can grow without chaos, conflict and risks that block financing.\n\nPhoto \/ graphic: studio founders and advisers at a workshop table, with a simplified structure map on screen: founders, company, IP, investor, projects, decision-making rules. Style: businesslike, modern, without gaming clich\u00e9.\n

CLIENT PROBLEM<\/h2>\nThe studio is growing. Projects are accelerating. An investor, a new shareholder or another title arrives.\n\nYet the legal-business structure still runs on \"arrangements\" that once were enough, but today start creating risk.\n\n\"In gamedev the problem often does not start with a bad contract. It starts with a lack of clarity: who has control, who takes decisions, where the rights sit and what happens when an investor appears.\"\n\nAn unordered structure can slow an investment round, complicate talks with a partner, trigger conflict between founders or reduce the studio's credibility in due diligence.\n\nOur role is to translate the studio's business goals - growth, financing, subsequent titles, expansion - into a working corporate model: clear, secure and understandable for the management board, founders and investors. The service covers, among other things, a structure audit, selection of the company model, arranging founder-investor relationships, and corporate and investment documents.\n

MOST COMMON PROBLEMS \/ CHALLENGES<\/h2>\nThe company structure is not keeping pace with the studio's growth<\/strong>\n\nThe studio started as a project team, but today it operates like a company: it hires, develops several areas, talks to investors and plans further games. The old structure is no longer enough.\n\nWe help assess the current ownership and organisational structure, then design a model suited to the scale of operations, financing plans and future changes.\n\nBusiness benefit:<\/strong> greater control over the studio's growth and fewer ad hoc decisions.\n\nRisk of inaction:<\/strong> the studio may enter investment or partnership talks with a model that will not withstand due diligence.\n\nUnclear rules between founders<\/strong>\n\nAt the start, trust is enough. When success, time pressure or an investor arrives, the lack of formal rules starts working against the company.\n\nWe define and document rules on shares, control, responsibility, decision-making, exit from the company and conflict situations.\n\nBusiness benefit:<\/strong> fewer tensions between shareholders and greater predictability of decisions.\n\nRisk of inaction:<\/strong> a founder conflict can block financing, a project launch or a strategic partnership.\n\nThe studio is not ready for an investor<\/strong>\n\nAn investor looks not only at the game and the team. They check the structure, documents, rights, governance, control model and the ability to exit the investment.\n\nWe prepare the studio for investment conversations: we organise documents, the structure, capital-entry scenarios and the key rules of cooperation with an investor.\n\nBusiness benefit:<\/strong> greater credibility and a smoother investment process.\n\nRisk of inaction:<\/strong> the round may be delayed by questions that should have been resolved before talks began.\n\nRights, shares and projects are dispersed<\/strong>\n\nIP, founder contributions, rights to the game, the roles of individual entities and project financing are often arranged in a way that does not give full control.\n\nWe map rights, relationships and dependencies between entities, founders, projects and investors. Then we recommend a structure that organises ownership, financing and decision-making.\n\nBusiness benefit:<\/strong> clarity on what belongs to the studio, who has influence and how subsequent projects can be financed.\n\nRisk of inaction:<\/strong> dispersed rights can reduce the studio's value or make investor entry harder.\n\nThere is no model for subsequent titles and scaling<\/strong>\n\nOne game can work in a simple structure. Several projects, publishing, international cooperation or new financing rounds already require more order.\n\nWe design a corporate-governance and financing model that accounts for studio growth, subsequent projects, possible shareholder changes and future investment scenarios.\n\nBusiness benefit:<\/strong> the structure grows with the business instead of holding it back.\n\nRisk of inaction:<\/strong> each subsequent project increases chaos, decision costs and the risk of disputes.\n

HOW OUR SOLUTION WORKS<\/h2>\nFrom informal arrangements to a structure ready for growth and an investor<\/strong>\n\nWe do not start with documents. We start by understanding how the studio operates, what its goals are and where the structure may block decisions, financing or scaling. Only then do we design something practical, implementable and clear to the business.\n\nAudit of the ownership and organisational structure<\/strong>\n
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  • analysis of the current company or project-team structure,<\/li>\n \t
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  • verification of documents and informal arrangements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nA map of the current structure, a risk list and priority recommendations for cleanup.\n\nDesign of the optimal company model<\/strong>\n
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    • selection of the legal form and operating model,<\/li>\n \t
    • recommendation of a structure for the current stage of growth,<\/li>\n \t
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    • organising roles, responsibilities and decision flow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nA recommended corporate structure model with a business rationale.\n\nArranging relationships between founders and shareholders<\/strong>\n
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      • rules for participation in the company,<\/li>\n \t
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        • organising corporate and investment documents,<\/li>\n \t
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        • support in negotiations with an investor,<\/li>\n \t
        • analysis of risks that may arise in due diligence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nA package of recommendations and documents that increase the studio's readiness for investment conversations.\n\nGovernance, control and decision-making rules<\/strong>\n
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            • organising key dependencies from an investor's perspective.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nA clear model for projects, rights and financing that supports further studio growth.\n

              WHO THIS SERVICE IS FOR<\/h2>\nFor studios that want to grow without improvising their structure<\/strong>\n\nThe service is for teams that already have a concrete business goal: an investor, scaling, a new project, a change of shareholders or a need to organise operating rules.\n\nCEO \/ COO of a gaming studio - when you need clear decision-making rules, accountability and control over company growth.\n\nFounder \/ creative director \/ co-founder of a studio - when you want to protect your shares, rights and influence on the project without blocking business flexibility.\n\nCFO \/ investor \/ strategic partner - when you assess structure safety, governance, investment readiness and the predictability of capital entry.\n

              STAGES OF WORK<\/h2>\nA simple process that leads from diagnosis to implementation<\/strong>\n\nWe work so that the management board and founders quickly know where the risks sit, what options they have and what to implement first. The process covers diagnosis, structure design, implementation and ongoing support with investors and structure changes.\n\nStage 1. Situation diagnosis<\/strong>\n\nWe analyse the structure, documents, relationships between founders, the decision-making model, rights and the studio's business goals.\n\nWhat the client gains:<\/strong> A clear picture of what works, what needs organising and which risks may block an investor or further growth.\n\nStage 2. Structure design<\/strong>\n\nWe prepare the recommended legal-business model: the company, ownership relationships, governance, investment scenarios and control rules.\n\nWhat the client gains:<\/strong> A concrete action plan instead of general recommendations. The management board and founders know which decisions must be taken.\n\nStage 3. Implementation<\/strong>\n\nWe prepare, organise or update corporate and investment documents. We set the rules between the parties so the structure works in practice.\n\nWhat the client gains:<\/strong> Formal order, lower dispute risk and greater readiness for talks with an investor, partner or new shareholder.\n\nStage 4. 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