Corporate & Commercial

We advise on entity formation, corporate structuring, and restructuring for businesses at all stages. This includes advising on the choice of entity and jurisdiction for incorporation, partnership and LLP agreements, articles and memoranda of association, shareholder arrangements, and corporate governance. We also advise on restructuring, demergers, and dissolution.

We advise founders, investors, and companies on equity transactions and investment documentation, including shareholders’ agreements, share subscription agreements, simple agreements for future equity (SAFEs), convertible notes, and investor rights arrangements. We handle the legal documentation for seed, angel, and venture funding rounds, and advise on the structuring of investment terms, exit mechanisms, and anti-dilution protections.

We draft, review, and negotiate the commercial agreements that underpin day-to-day business operations, including master service agreements, reseller and distribution agreements, revenue share arrangements, manufacturing agreements, collaboration agreements, go-to-market agreements, non-disclosure agreements, non-compete agreements, and settlement agreements. We also advise on clinical trial agreements and recruitment agency arrangements for clients in the healthcare and staffing sectors.

We advise businesses on the full range of employment law matters, from hiring to exit. This includes employment agreements, contractor agreements, secondment arrangements, staffing service agreements, employee non-disclosure and non-compete agreements, and employee handbooks covering workplace policies and codes of conduct. We also represent clients in labour disputes before labour courts and industrial tribunals. Our employment practice integrates closely with our data privacy work, particularly on employee data handling, monitoring, and cross-border transfer.

We advise on real estate transactions and documentation, including sale deeds, lease deeds, construction agreements, and due diligence for property acquisitions. For infrastructure clients, we handle commercial contracts, arbitration, and regulatory matters. Our disputes team represents infrastructure companies in multi-crore contractual claims before arbitral tribunals.

We advise businesses on direct and indirect tax matters arising from corporate transactions, commercial arrangements, and regulatory compliance. Our work covers income tax structuring for corporate transactions (mergers, demergers, slump sales, share transfers), capital gains planning, withholding tax obligations, GST advisory and compliance (including the 28% GST regime for online gaming and the GST implications of digital services), taxation of virtual digital assets (the 30% flat tax on crypto and NFT transactions, 1% TDS), startup tax benefits (Section 80-IAC exemptions, angel tax provisions), and international tax considerations including transfer pricing, double taxation avoidance agreements, and the determination of Place of Effective Management. We work closely with our corporate, technology, and disputes teams to ensure that tax structuring is integrated into the broader legal and commercial advice we provide.