The Engagement
The people and companies we work with arrive at different stages, with different questions. What they share is the kind of work they bring: too consequential to delegate down a team, too commercial to answer with law alone.
Founders & Early-Stage Startups
At inception, the legal architecture you put in place is rarely revisited until something stresses it; usually at exactly the wrong moment. Just before a fundraise, just before a hire that needs to be removed, just before a contract becomes a dispute. We begin from this premise: the foundation has to be laid before it is needed.
From pre-incorporation through Series A, the legal questions are about identity and structure as much as compliance. The work spans corporate structuring and entity choice, founder agreements with vesting that holds, ESOP frameworks scoped for the actual hiring you are planning, and the customer and vendor contracts that will hold up when the business pivots, which it will.
What changes the engagement is access. You should be able to send in a legal query email, and receive an authoritative response in a timely manner. That is the working rhythm of a Starter Blend.
Mid-Market Companies
By the time your business has crossed Series B, the legal terrain has changed in ways that are easy to miss until they bite. Contract volumes are higher, counterparties more sophisticated, the regulatory surface wider, and the documentation that worked at twenty employees no longer holds at two hundred. The questions are no longer do we have a contract; they are does this contract still serve the business we are running.
Most often, the work begins with a structured review of what is already in place. The customer and vendor portfolios. The HR documentation that has accumulated through hiring waves. The compliance program written for an earlier iteration of the business. From there we work through the remediation in priority order, while taking on the day-to-day legal rhythm: contract drafting, negotiation, lifecycle management across the portfolio, regulatory and labour-code alignment, and the strategic counsel that increasingly lands at the boardroom level.
For companies carrying cross-border activity, channel partners abroad, foreign investment on the cap table, or operations across jurisdictions, we coordinate Indian counsel with international advisors directly so the work moves at one cadence rather than three.
Global Enterprises
For companies operating at scale, listed entities, multinational subsidiaries, businesses carrying complex shareholding structures across jurisdictions, the legal work is rarely about getting a single document right. It is about coordinating judgement across functions and across geographies, on timelines that do not bend to the legal calendar.
We engage at this scale as a senior counsel partner alongside in-house legal teams. On transactions where Indian-side execution must move in lockstep with overseas counsel. On regulatory matters where Indian and foreign frameworks need to be reconciled into a single advisory product. On strategic mandates where the board needs a view rather than a memo, and needs it in days, not weeks.
At this scale, we work as an extension of your in-house legal team rather than as a separate vendor. Continuity, accountability, and direct access to the counsel are the conditions on which the engagement holds.
CXOs & Boards
Strategic counsel that does not arrive in a service line.
Some matters do not belong inside a corporate retainer; they sit on individuals, not on companies. Personal exposure on a transaction. Director duties on a sensitive matter. A governance question that needs an independent perspective before the board agenda is finalised.
The work moves across engagements. A CXO already working with us through the company retainer can extend the relationship into individual advisory. A board member coming to us for the first time can engage on a discrete matter without any organisational entanglement. Discretion is the default.
The mandate here is not legal opinion in the abstract. It is judgement, delivered to the person carrying the decision, on the timeline they are working under.
Find the right engagement for where you are. Let’s talk.
First conversations are framed by the stage of your business and the work in front of you. We respond to every inquiry within one business day.
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