Corporate & Commercial Laws

The Firm is engaged in incorporation of Companies, formation of partnerships, advising on private equity placements, corporate      matters,    management agreements,  other  securities,  commercial agreements, winding-up  and  insolvency,   environmental  law, insurance laws and regulations.

The Firm regularly represents its clients before various regulatory authorities such as the Foreign  Investment Promotion  Board  (FIPB),  Reserve  Bank  of  India  (RBI), Co*mpany Law Board,  Department of Company Affairs, Directorate General of Foreign Trade and other regulatory bodies.

The Firm is routinely engaged by its clients for Legal opinions on matters falling under the Companies Act, Securities Laws and Regulations, various commercial laws, Exchange Management laws, Cyber Laws etc.

CORPORATE FINANCE

The  Firm  advises  on  securities  laws,  rules  and  regulations,  Institutional Investments, asset based lending,  drafting of all kinds of loan documents for banks, financial institutions and NBFCs, hire-cum purchase agreements, consumer durable  agreements, documents related to equipment leasing, and various regulatory compliances.

COMPANY LAW MATTERS –

The Firm advises on the following matters related to company law:

    • Formulation and implementation of Company Law compliance system of Private & Public Limited Companies;
    • Due Diligence Audits;
    • Oppression & Mismanagement cases;
    • Miscellaneous matters in the office of The Registrar of Companies;
    • Conversion of proprietorship or partnership concerns in to company, conversion of the status of Companies;
    • Change in name of Companies, Alteration in Clauses of Memorandum & Articles of Association, shifting of registered office of the company from one state to another state;
    • Extension of date of AGM and other connected matters;
    • Striking off name of the company under Section 560;
    • Maintenance of Statutory records, Charges registration, Search report and Status report;
    • Entire services under the new online MCA21 project;
    • Winding up of Companies.

COMPANY LAW BOARD & REGIONAL DIRECTOR MATTERS

The attorneys of the Firm Liaison with and appear before the CLB for various issues, such as those relating to:

    • Shifting of the Registered office from one state to another;
    • Compounding of offence under Section 621A;
    • Condonation of delay in registration of creation/ modification/ satisfaction of Charges and various approvals of Central Government including appointment and remuneration to executive and non executive directors;
    • Approval from Regional Director for contracts with interested parties under Section 297;
    • Approval under Section 224(7).
    • Other miscellaneous matters falling within the jurisdiction of CLB.

LISTING COMPLIANCES –

    • Liasioning with SEBI & Stock Exchanges.
    • Secretarial Audit, Capital Reconciliation Audit, Share Transfer Audit under SEBI Act 1992, and Depositories Act, 1996.

MATTERS RELATNG TO SECURITIES EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA–

    • Compliance of SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares & Takeover) Regulations, 1997.
    • Compliance of SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations.
    • Designing of Information system for the implementation of Takeover & Insider Trading Regulations of SEBI.

MATTERS RELATING TO FOREIGN EXCHANGE MANAGEMENT REGULATION ACT, 1999

    • Consultancy in matters relating to   Foreign investment inIndia.
    • Strategizing, advising & Registration of Branch, Liaison or Project Office in India
    • RBI & FIPB approvals.

MERGERS & ACQUISITION:

Our domain and sector focused teams enables us to deal with and advise on complex legal issues in M&A transactions. The Firm handles a full range of M&A transactions including (i) Mergers & Amalgamations; (ii) Schemes of Arrangement, Reconstructions and Demergers; (iii) Acquisitions & Divestments – of shares, assets and businesses (private, public and listed entities); (iv) Leveraged Buy-outs; (v) Distressed Transactions; and (vi) Restructuring (for listed & unlisted entities), including Capital & Debt restructuring, buy-back of securities & reduction of capital.

CORPORATE ADVISORY

    • Advising and arranging of various funds requirements for the Corporate client.
    • Advising on ESOP Scheme designing, Implementation & Valuation.

CAPITAL MARKETS

Our capital market lawyers advise on matters relating to Takeovers, Initial Public Offerings, Global Depository Receipts, American Depository Receipts, External Commercial Borrowing, Foreign Currency Convertible Bond, Domestic Debt Issues and secondary issues, across a wide range of industry sectors.