The full life of a company, from the first entity onward.
Clients engage what they need, when they need it. Every line below is delivered by our own team across India, the UAE and the US, not relayed to a correspondent firm. Where the EU is the target market, we quarterback the work and manage the EU local counsel who make the regulator-facing filings.
Incorporation and corporate foundations
We set up the entity, whether a private limited company, an LLP, or a foreign entity, and we set it up for where the business is going, not only where it is today. The first structure is the one every later round, hire and market entry inherits, so we treat it as a design decision rather than a form-filling exercise.
When founders call us
- Incorporating in India, Delaware or a UAE free zone for the first time
- Choosing between a private limited company, an LLP and a foreign parent
- UAE company formation for Indian founders: the UAE licence and the RBI trail run as one sequence, from activity and seat selection through Form FC and the UIN to the APR calendar
- Set up an Indian subsidiary from the US or UAE: the wholly owned subsidiary as the default vehicle, a 90-day sequence from SPICe+ through FC-GPR, and the resident director seat
Cross-border and global structuring
Holding and operating structures across India, the UAE and the US, so a company can raise, hire and expand without unwinding its own foundation later: the Delaware flip and the reverse flip, FEMA on every leg, and the substance the UAE now expects.
The full service, how the engagement is staged and who signs what, is on cross-border structuring. The flip on its own, with who signs each FEMA, valuation, tax and Delaware filing, is on Delaware flip advisory. Background reading: the Delaware flip from India, where the holding company should sit and DMCC vs ADGM vs IFZA from India.
Transactions and fundraising
We advise on capital raises and deals, from the instrument you raise on through the negotiation itself. Term sheets, shareholders’ agreements and exit rights, convertibles, cap-table clean-up, and ESOP design including cross-jurisdiction pools. The cross-jurisdiction plan is set out on ESOP design for India, the UAE and the US.
When founders call us
- A term sheet is on the table and the SHA is next
- The cap table needs cleaning before diligence finds it
- An ESOP pool has to work for employees in more than one country
- Fundraising legal advisory, from term sheet to closing: one team runs the round across India, the US and the UAE, then FC-GPR, Form D or the free-zone allotment filing
- Cross-border M&A advisory: buy-side and sell-side from the letter of intent to closing, with the CCI, FEMA, HSR and ADGM triggers mapped before signing
Contracts and intellectual property
We draft, negotiate and manage commercial, founder and investor agreements, and protect the brand and technology underneath them. The recurring failure we fix: IP that never actually moved to the entity raising the money.
When founders call us
- Customer, vendor and partnership agreements that will face diligence
- Founder agreements, and contributor terms that genuinely assign IP
- Trademarks and the ownership chain across a multi-entity structure
- Startup contracts that hold in India, Delaware and the UAE: founders’ agreements, PIIAs, contractor terms and SaaS paper drafted to the rule each must survive, so the IP has moved before diligence asks
Compliance, secretarial and tax
The AML, regulatory, secretarial and data-protection frameworks a company needs, kept current as the rules change, with the direct tax and GST workstreams and the company-secretarial calendar owned so filings stop depending on the founder remembering them.
Ongoing work runs as a fractional general counsel and compliance retainer; the RBI side, from ODI and LRS filings to late submission fees and compounding, is on FEMA, ODI and LRS compliance. The statutory dates for FY 2026-27 are in the India compliance calendar. Data protection runs as its own programme: DPDP compliance, with the GDPR and UAE PDPL legs, built against the 13 May 2027 operating date. The dated build order is the DPDP compliance checklist for startups.
Web3 and digital assets
A specialist practice for token issuers, exchanges, VASPs, funds and DAOs: VARA licensing in Dubai, FIU-IND registration in India, MiCA CASP authorisation for the EU market, token classification and structuring, and the AML layer that banking and regulators expect. It has its own page.
How engagements work
Every engagement starts with a discovery call: a diagnosis of your stage, jurisdictions and immediate risks. From there, work is scoped one of two ways.
- Fixed-scope projects. A defined piece of work, a defined fee, agreed before we start. Common setup work, such as incorporations and standard structures, is productised at a fixed fee.
- Ongoing retainers. A monthly arrangement for companies that want compliance, contracts and counsel handled continuously, without re-scoping every request.
You see the plan and the cost before you commit to anything. Pricing is scoped to stage: you are not paying enterprise rates for startup work.
The scope note, the choice between a project and a retainer, and who signs each filing are set out on how engagements work.
Start with the diagnosis.
A free 30-minute discovery call with the founder. You see the plan and the cost before you commit to anything.
Thirty minutes with Prashant Sharma, the founder, who does the work himself. You leave with next steps either way. Email is read by the founder and answered within one working day.