Our Engagement Models

The QorLex Blend

Three engagement models, calibrated to the stage and scale of your business and held together by one standard of care.

What is the Blend?

A firm that plugs in like in-house counsel with the breadth of an external one.

Most companies eventually face the same choice: hire an in-house General Counsel and inherit fixed cost, or retain an external firm. Neither is the best suited option with the way modern businesses actually move. Decisions arrive faster than the next billing cycle, and the cost of quick judgment should not depend on whether a matter is large enough to justify a project file.

The QorLex Blend is built around that gap. Each engagement is a partnership designed to feel like an in-house function with the same ease of access, the same ownership of outcomes, the same day-to-day rhythm while retaining the breadth, objectivity, and cross-industry experience that only an external counsel can bring.

Where the work crosses into a discrete transaction; an M&A deal, a fundraise, or a strategic restructuring; we lift it out of routine retainer scope and price it transparently. Between transactions, we are simply available. The engagement scales with you, from Starter through Advantage to Premium, without changing partners or losing institutional memory of your business.

Tier I For Founders & Early Stage

QorLex Blend Starter

A custom-built pre-agreement engagement for the initial phase of a venture.

The Starter Blend is built for founders who need senior legal judgment from the day the company is incorporated and not from the day a problem becomes too large to ignore. You get customized and personalized advice, a single point of contact, and a working rhythm calibrated to the speed at which early-stage businesses actually move.

This tier is designed around the legal events that define the initial phase of a venture: getting the corporate structure right, putting founder agreements and employment documentation in place, drafting the contracts your customers and vendors will hold you to, and being investor-ready before the term sheet arrives. We stay close to the operational details that founders often discover too late be it IP assignment, ESOP foundations, data-protection groundwork, and the sectoral compliance that comes with whatever you are building.

What makes this engagement work is its scope of access, not its volume of output. A five-minute call should not require a justification email. A quick contract review should not become a separate project. The model is built so that early-stage decisions get senior legal judgment as part of the regular working week, not as exceptional events.

When a transaction does arrive be it a fundraise, a strategic partnership, or a key customer contract; we lift it out of routine scope and treat it as a discrete piece of work, transparently and at agreed economics. Until then, we are simply available.

What’s included

Incorporation and corporate structuring – entity choice, registered office
Founder agreements, vesting structures, and ESOP framework drafting
Customer, vendor, NDA, and core commercial contract drafting and review
Employment letters, offer letters, and HR policy starter pack
Funding-readiness review – cap table, data room, term-sheet evaluation
IP foundation – trademarks, copyright assignment, IP transfer agreements
Founder-level access for ad-hoc legal questions, no per-call billing
Quarterly legal health check and risk review

Best for

Pre-seed to Series A founders who need senior counsel from incorporation but cannot yet justify a salaried in-house GC.

Ready to put the legal foundation in place before the first round?

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Tier II Most Chosen · Mid-Market

QorLex Blend Advantage

A retainer partnership for businesses scaling beyond the early stage.

The Advantage Blend is for the company that has crossed the early-stage threshold and is now scaling into a more demanding legal terrain where contract volumes are larger, counterparties more sophisticated, and the regulatory surface area considerably wider. You are no longer asking do we have a contract? You are asking whether the contract you have actually serves the business it was written for.

This tier wraps around your existing legal function (or stands in as one) with a partner who treats your business as a primary engagement. The retainer covers the day-to-day rhythm of mid-market legal operations: contract lifecycle management across customer, vendor, and channel agreements; ongoing compliance design and monitoring across corporate and sectoral obligations; HR documentation aligned with India’s new Labour Codes; and the strategic counsel that mid-market boards increasingly need on governance, risk, and dispute exposure.

Cross-border activity is a defining feature of this tier. Whether you are entering new markets, working with overseas counterparties, or carrying foreign investment on your cap table, the engagement is structured to coordinate Indian counsel with international advisors without the friction of multiple disconnected vendors.

Transactions: Fundraises, M&A, strategic JVs are scoped separately from the retainer, with senior involvement as default and a transparent fee model. Between transactions, you have a legal partner who already knows the business, the counterparty landscape, and the commercial pressures you are actually working under.

What’s included

Contract lifecycle management – drafting, negotiation, renewals, amendments
Contract portfolio review and gap analysis with prioritised remediation
Compliance program design and ongoing regulatory monitoring
HR documentation refresh aligned with the new Labour Codes
Employment matters – senior hires, separations, restructuring
Cross-border counsel coordination for international counterparties
Privacy, data-protection, and DPDP Act compliance framework
Sectoral advisory in the client’s primary industry vertical
Board and governance support – meeting documentation, charters, policies
Dispute strategy advisory and pre-litigation risk management
M&A and fundraise support at agreed transactional economics
Senior availability for the executive team – direct line, no gatekeeper

Best for

Mid-market companies scaling through commercial growth, hiring, fundraising, and cross-border activity that are typically growth stage companies.

Ready to bring senior legal partnership inside the business without the headcount?

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Tier III For Large & Global Enterprises

QorLex Blend Premium

A bespoke partnership built around a mature in-house function.

The Premium Blend is a bespoke engagement for organisations that already have an in-house legal function and are looking for a senior, named external partner; one who functions as a true extension of the team, with the ownership of in-house counsel and the breadth of an external firm.

This tier is built for the legal complexity that comes with scale: high contract volumes across multiple business units, M&A activity and portfolio integration, multi-jurisdictional advisory, regulatory obligations that span sectors and borders, and the kind of ongoing strategic work that boards and CXOs need to bring senior counsel into without renegotiating scope every time. The engagement is structured around predictable economics rather than time-and-materials uncertainty; precisely what mature in-house teams typically need from external counsel and rarely receive.

Under this tier, we work alongside your General Counsel, Company Secretary, and finance leadership as a partner, not a vendor. We take ownership of defined workstreams, leading on transactions, and providing the senior judgment that gets escalated up only when it absolutely needs to. Deep-sector expertise becomes most valuable here: real estate, banking and finance, healthcare, technology, AI, and private equity each bring their own regulatory cadence, and we calibrate the engagement to the sector your business operates in.

For organisations carrying complex or sensitive matters, this tier offers continuous senior involvement, no surprise bills, and a partner who has been close enough to the business to know the answer before being asked the question.

What’s included

Dedicated senior partner working as an extension of your in-house team
High-volume contract management across business units and geographies
M&A, JV, and corporate restructuring transaction leadership
Multi-jurisdictional advisory and cross-border transaction coordination
Sector-specific specialisation across the firm’s core verticals
Private equity and investment – fund-side and company-side mandates
Board-level governance, ESG, and committee documentation support
Regulatory program oversight across all applicable jurisdictions
Crisis response – disputes, regulatory action, reputational matters
Litigation strategy management and external counsel coordination
Quarterly legal risk reviews with the executive team
Predictable, agreed annual economics – no time-based billing surprises

Best for

Listed entities, large privately-held businesses, multinationals with India operations, and PE-backed portfolio companies whose in-house teams need senior external partnership at predictable cost.

Ready to add a named senior partner to your existing legal function?

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At a Glance

The three Blends, side by side.

For procurement teams, GCs, and CXOs evaluating fit. The lines below describe scope and cadence, not pricing – engagement economics are agreed individually.

Dimension	QorLex Blend Starter For Founders & Early Stage	QorLex Blend Advantage For Mid-Market	QorLex Blend Premium For Large & Global Enterprises
Best-fit stage	Pre-seed to Series A founders	Mid-market businesses, growth stage	Listed, large private, MNC India ops, PE portfolio
Engagement model	Custom-built model	Retainer with transparent transaction add-ons	Bespoke annual partnership, predictable economics
Founder / CXO access	Direct, weekly cadence	Direct, dedicated cadence, no gatekeeper	Continuous, embedded with the leadership team
Routine commercial contracts	Drafting and review	Full lifecycle management	Multi-business-unit lifecycle management
Contract portfolio audit	On request	Annual gap analysis with remediation	Continuous portfolio oversight
HR documentation	Starter pack – offer letters, handbook	Full Labour Codes refresh	Ongoing employment counsel
Compliance program	Calendar and statutory filings	Designed, monitored, and reported	End-to-end oversight across jurisdictions
Cross-border counsel	Coordinated as needed	Standard inclusion	Continuous multi-jurisdictional coordination
M&A & transactions	Scoped separately as they arise	Scoped separately; senior-led by default	Lead role; default involvement, agreed economics
Dispute strategy	Pre-litigation advisory	Pre-litigation plus strategy management	Strategy plus external counsel coordination
Sector deep-dives	Sector touch-points	One primary vertical	All applicable verticals across the business
Annual economics	Pre-agreed predictable cost	Retainer plus transparent transaction add-ons	Predictable annual fee, no surprises

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Not sure which Blend fits? Let’s talk it through.

Most engagements begin with a single conversation about the business, the legal terrain ahead, and which Blend is the right starting point. We respond to every inquiry within one business day.

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