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Legal & Secretarial Services
Discover a comprehensive suite of legal and secretarial services designed to support your business at every stage of its lifecycle. Our virtual legal team handles secretarial services, entity establishment, corporate governance, foreign exchange advisory, and assistance with regulatory compliance. Let us handle the complexities while you concentrate on your business goals.
Corporate Commercial
We provide legal services and corporate compliance solutions starting from the formation of an entity, adapting corporate governance practices, providing advisory on complex transactions, and opinions on critical legal issues covering the entire lifecycle of business entities.
Our area of services include :
- Private Companies
- Public Companies
- Section 8 (Non-Profit Company)
- Limited Liability Partnership (LLP’s)
- Producer Companies, Nidhi Companies
- One Person Companies (OPC's)
- Trust Formation
Name Change, Object Change, and Shifting of Registered Office
Advice on Foreign Exchange Laws, including Offense Compounding
Assistance in Conducting Shareholders’ and Board Meetings and Maintenance of Corporate Records.
Legal Due Diligence & Secretarial Audits
Advising & Assisting Clients on Retainership Basis
Fast Track Exit and Winding Up of companies.
Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) Structuring & Execution
- Advise on conceptualizing and designing employee incentive plans, we provide end-to-end support from both legal and business perspectives.
Provide step-by-step process dockets for plan implementation from a regulatory perspective.
- Effectively raising capital and strategically managing ownership structures are achieved through the implementation of legal strategies like Private Placement, Rights Issue.
Cross- Border Transaction Advisory
Advisory services for matters governed by the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) in India.
A foreign company that is planning to set up business operations in India has the following options:
- By Forming a Company in India or through Joint Venture (JV), or A Wholly Owned Subsidiary
Foreign Direct Investment & External Commercial Borrowing
Transactions stemming from inbound investment into India in the form of form of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) or External commercial borrowing (ECB) outbound investment outside India.
Other Offerings for FEMA Compliance
- Availing of External Commercial borrowings
- Valuation of shares for transfer of shares from resident to non-resident and vice versa
- Assistance and guidance on remittance of funds from India
- Advisory relating to current and capital account transactions
- Guidance on remittance of funds outside India
- Due Diligence under FEMA: A Complete health check of compliance of Foreign Exchange Regulations in India
Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring
Our Merger & Acquisitions, Private Equity (PE), and Venture Capital (VC) practice excel in both domestic and international transactions.
Advising on business and operational restructuring, on domestic and cross-border transactions. Carrying out legal due diligence and deal documentation with an industry-specific focus.
Drafting, negotiation & Review
- Share Subscription & Shareholders’ Agreement (SHA)
- Share Purchase Agreements (SPA)
- Business Asset Transfer-Transactions (BATA)
Commercial contracts
Structuring contracts: We Tailor-Make the Agreements for Your Business and our legal experts specialize in meticulously drafting agreements tailored to your unique business requirements.
Nature of Agreement
- Confidentiality/Non-Disclosure Agreements
- High Sea Sale’s Agreement
- Master Service Agreements (MSA)
- MOU’s, Cost Sharing Agreements
- Cost Sharing Agreements
- SHA
- Slump Sale Agreement
- Customized Tripartite Agreements
- Co-founder’s Agreement
- Franchise Agreement
- Employment Agreements
Contract review/vetting and negotiations : Thorough examination and assessment of contracts to identify potential risks and ensure compliance.
Government Permissions & Industrial Licensing
We specialize in procuring requisite registrations, licenses, approvals, and environmental clearances essential for your business operations, ensuring strict compliance with legal frameworks and standards.
- Advise on setting up of a factory and on the setting up of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ).
Registrations, Licenses, Approvals, and Permissions from various regulatory authorities:
Advise on LoI / Registrations to IT/ITES Parks and Units , Food Licenses/Labor law registrations/Startup India Registration/GST/Udyam registration.
- Environmental clearances such as Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) Consent (CTO/CTE), E-waste, and other allied Local body permits
- Fire Noc & Machinery permit under local laws
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
The Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) consists of a mix of advisory, dispute resolution, compliance, search, and analytics, as well as filing and prosecution of copyrights, trademarks, designs, and geographical indications, and domain names.
Consultation regarding the registration of a trademark
Conducting a Public Search of the Trademark
Drafting response to the Examination Report/Office Action
Drafting response to the Examination Report/Office Action