Practice Areas
Corporate & Commercial Advisory
Company incorporation, contracts, compliance, shareholder arrangements and commercial dispute resolution for businesses.
What this covers
- Private limited, LLP and partnership formation
- Commercial contract drafting and review
- Shareholder and founder agreements
- Secretarial and ROC compliance support
- Employment documentation and policies
- Commercial suits and arbitration
Businesses generally need two things from a lawyer: documents that hold up, and an early view on risk. We advise closely held companies, partnerships, professional practices and family businesses on both.
Setting up
Choice of entity is a commercial decision with legal consequences — liability, taxation, ease of bringing in investors and exit. We take clients through the options before incorporation rather than after, and handle the filings that follow.
Contracts
A contract earns its fee at the point of dispute. We draft and review supply and distribution agreements, service agreements, vendor terms, non-disclosure and non-compete arrangements, franchise documents and settlement agreements, with particular attention to the clauses that are read when things go wrong: termination, indemnity, limitation of liability, governing law and dispute resolution.
Shareholder arrangements
Disputes between founders are among the most damaging a company can face. Well-drafted shareholder and founder agreements — covering vesting, transfer restrictions, deadlock, exit and valuation — remove most of that risk at a fraction of the cost of litigating it later.
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