Startups & Emerging Companies

The Team

The standalone startups and emerging team leads in providing constant advise and assistance to nascent companies and businesses. The lawyers and company secretaries provide end to end support and solutions for its clients and provide comprehensive services to ensure that the clients focus on businesses without the burden of compliances. The team also actively engages and provide comprehensive services relating to contracts in the business. The documenttation team handles negotiation, review, drafting and execution of agreements with businesses. The Firm’s Mergers & Acquisition,Consumer, Dispute Resolution, Regulatory & Public Policy, Labour & Employment, Intellectual Property, Tax Law and other teams across various offices also provide transactional, advisory and litigation services

Our Practice

The Startups & emerging companies team caters to entrepreneurs and startups and advise through all the stages of including incorporation, structuring, funding options, employee stock options and overall compliances of the entities.

The firm manages and handles all the compliances related to Companies Act, Tax, Intellectual property and include comprehensive incorporation services, negotiating and drafting commercial contracts, drafting shareholder, raising capital as well as advising on sweat-equity and ESOPs.

We draft and negotiate investment documents, shareholder agreements, share subscription agreements, share purchase agreements. The firm also advises in regulatory compliances specific to the sector in the which the statrups operates in close collaboration with the teams from the specific key sectors.

The Firm is also engaged both by startups and investors to conduct due diligence prior to investment rounds on the potential investment. The firm also advises on structuring of seed funding and handle complete Series A/B/C funding rounds.

With the recent impetus by the Government of India on Startups, the startupindia initiative provides for comprehensive single window services to startups as well as emerging companies, including several benefits and concessions. Furthermore to enhance the ease of doing business, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India has streamlined the process of incorporation of companies providing for comprehensive services through a single window.