The Practice
Two streams of work – transactional and advisory, held together by one practitioner’s judgement, applied across the sectors where modern Indian businesses actually operate.
QorLex Transactions
Transactional and operational legal work are drafted, negotiated, and managed end-to-end. This is the stream most early-stage and mid-market clients engage first where the deliverable is a closed transaction, a working contract, or an operational document portfolio that holds up under commercial pressure.
Mergers & Acquisitions
End-to-end support on domestic and cross-border M&A, joint ventures, and corporate restructuring from term sheet to closing, and through the integration work that determines whether a deal actually creates the value it promised on paper.
We act for both buy-side and sell-side mandates, leading the diligence coordination, transaction documentation, regulatory filings, and counterparty negotiations. The work spans share-purchase and asset-purchase structures, scheme-of-arrangement transactions, joint-venture formations, and the corporate restructurings that often precede or follow them.
Where deals cross borders, whether inbound investment into India, outbound acquisition from India, or multi-jurisdictional transactions, we coordinate Indian counsel with overseas advisors so the deal moves at one cadence rather than three.
General Commercial Contracts
End-to-end support on contract drafting, negotiation, and lifecycle management across customer agreements, vendor and supplier contracts, distribution and channel arrangements, NDAs, master services agreements, statements of work, and the bespoke commercial instruments that don’t fit a template.
The work is approached as commercial documentation first, legal documentation second; we read every clause for whether it actually protects the business it’s written for, not for whether it follows a familiar form. Negotiation support is senior-led by default; we sit on the call to ensure successful closure and don’t stop at sending the redline.
For ongoing client engagements, we maintain the contract architecture across renewals, amendments, and counterparty changes so the paperwork keeps pace with how the relationship has actually evolved.
Contract Management
A structured review and gap analysis of the existing contract portfolio, the documentation a business has already signed, often over years, often by different teams, and rarely audited as a coherent body of risk.
We work through the portfolio to identify exposure points, missing clauses, drafting weaknesses, and commercial misalignment; and then sequence the remediation work by priority. The output is a working register of what to fix, what to renegotiate with counterparties, and what to leave alone with the actual amendments, addenda, and renegotiation strategy delivered as part of the engagement.
This is the service that quietly prevents disputes, the kind of work that doesn’t feature in deal announcements but materially changes the risk profile a business carries into its next financial year.
HR Documentation
Review and gap analysis of the existing employment documentation like offer letters, appointment letters, employee handbooks, HR policies, and a recommended refresh aligned with India’s new Labour Codes and the realities of how contemporary workforces actually operate.
This is rarely a single-document exercise. Most clients arrive with documentation that has accumulated over hiring waves, gone through multiple HR leaders, and absorbed amendments that no longer reconcile. We rebuild the architecture; aligning offer letters, employment agreements, ESOP grants, leave policies, performance frameworks, and separation protocols into a coherent set.
Where the engagement extends into employment counsel proper like senior hires, performance separations, restructurings, prevention of harassment frameworks, we carry that work as part of the same relationship.
Private Equity & Investment
Full-spectrum legal services for fund-side and company-side mandates; the work is the same body of law, but the seat at the table is different, and we are equipped to take either.
For fund formation and fund-side counsel, the work spans setting up of funds, drafting and negotiating the investment documentation (term sheets, share-subscription agreements, shareholders’ agreements), regulatory advice on structure and compliance, and the ongoing portfolio support that follows deployment.
For company-side mandates, founders and management teams raising capital; we represent the cap-table interests of the business through the round: term-sheet evaluation, diligence response, drafting negotiation, and the post-closing governance and reporting framework that determines what the relationship with the investor actually feels like for the next several years.
QorLex Advisory
Strategic counsel and risk advisory; engagements where the deliverable is judgement, structure, and ongoing partnership rather than a discrete document. This stream tends to scale as the client relationship matures, and as the legal questions inside the business shift from what should we sign? to what should we do?
Regulatory & Compliance
Review and gap analysis of an existing compliance programme to include identifying new and emerging regulatory obligations, mapping the gaps against current practice, and designing the mitigating controls and monitoring frameworks that turn compliance from a quarterly fire drill into a working operational discipline.
The advisory covers corporate, sectoral, and cross-border requirements: Companies Act and SEBI obligations for listed and unlisted entities; sector-specific regulators across the firm’s core verticals; the rapidly tightening data-protection landscape under India’s DPDP Act; and the evolving cross-border compliance map that affects any business with foreign capital or international counterparties.
Where the in-house team carries the compliance function, we work alongside it designing the framework and supporting the senior decisions, while the operational rhythm stays in-house. Where there is no internal function, we stand in as the architecture until there is.
Dispute Resolution & Litigation Strategy
A specialised focus on the out-of-court resolution of commercial disputes with strategic advisory on litigation management designed to reduce the cost, time, and reputational exposure that disputes typically carry on a business.
The work begins, wherever possible, before a dispute becomes a filing; in the negotiation, the structured settlement, and the commercial restructuring that resolves the underlying conflict without the courtroom. Where matters do require litigation, we lead the strategy and manage the external counsel network around it: selecting the right counsel, framing the brief, sequencing the work, and maintaining commercial oversight of the matter throughout its lifecycle.
We do not run courtroom litigation as a primary service. The discipline here is strategic management of the dispute and its resolution; not advocacy at the bar.
Sector depth.
Beyond the two streams, the practice carries deep, sector-specific advisory in the verticals where Indian businesses are most actively building and most actively regulated.
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