Corporate Legal & Regulatory
Our legal services embrace in-depth knowledge of regulatory and commercial laws and the nuances influencing the business environment to provide comprehensive guidance across multiple industry verticals addressing the critical issues and risks faced by the businesses in handling a gamut of corporate laws, regulatory policies and compliance.
Drafting and vetting of contracts
- Corporate commercial agreements
- Term Sheet, Shareholders agreement, Share subscription agreement, Business Transfer Agreement and others
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), Employment agreements
- Licensing agreement, Franchise agreement, Royalty agreement, NDA, JV Agreement and others
Registrations & Domiciliation Services
- Registrations and approvals from SEBI, RBI, SEZ, MSME, AIF, NBFC and other government authorities
- SME exchange listing
- IPO advisory and assistance
- Registered office or resident director services
Advisory Services
- Formation of Indian & Offshore Entities (Companies/LLP/JV/Representative Offices)
- Corporate re-structuring advisory
- Corporate commercial advisory
- Corporate insolvency, bankruptcy and restructuring
- Foreign Investment, borrowing & lending under Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA)
- Joint Ventures/Strategic Alliances
- Mergers/Demergers/ Acquisitions/ Buy Backs
- Private Equity
- Intellectual Property
- Information Technology and Data protection
- Competition law
- Bribery & Anti-corruption
- Securities and capital market
- E-Commerce
- ESOPs (Employee Stock Options)
- Employment and Industrial relations
- Prevention of sexual harassment at workplace
Compliance & Corporate Secretarial
- Routine compliances for Public, Private, One Person Companies and Section 8 Companies like maintenance of minute books and statutory registers, preparation and submission of annual forms/event-based forms with Registrar of Companies and other event-based activities like change in directors, share allotments/transfer, change in authorized capital, registered office, beneficial ownership, conversion to LLP etc
- Compliance under Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements (LODR) for listed companies
- Routine compliances for LLPs as mentioned in the LLP deed like preparation and filing annual/event-based forms with the Registrar of LLP, changes in partners, capital, LLP deed and others
- Routine Compliances for trusts, societies, as required under the various state & central regulations
- Compliances under FEMA like intimation of receipt of share capital and its allotment (FCGPR), share transfer (FCTRS), ECB returns, LRS remittances etc. to Reserve Bank of India
- Compliance with issues highlighted under Due Diligence report
- Corporate compliances like Internal Financial Control (IFC), Risk Management Policy (RMP) and others
Representation Services - Litigation and Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR)
- Pre – litigation case study, analysis and advisory
- Representations before NCLT, RBI, RD, MCA, ROC, IPAB, SEBI and other regulatory bodies
- Representation before courts in India and overseas
- Acting as arbitrators, mediators and conciliators
- Representations for compounding of offences and condonation of delays
Due Diligence and Legal Health Check
- Examining applicability of corporate laws, statutory returns, licenses, agreements etc
- Identifying exposures and inefficiencies
- Reviewing pending litigation/disputes