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.
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
- Setting up a subsidiary for a team, a market or a customer contract
Cross-border and global structuring
We design 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. That includes the Delaware flip and the reverse flip, FEMA on every leg, and the substance the UAE now expects.
When founders call us
- Raising from US investors and weighing a Delaware flip
- Choosing where the holding company should sit: Delaware, the UAE or India
- Entering the Gulf and picking the free zone that matches the activity
- FEMA on foreign investment in, or overseas investment out
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.
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
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
Compliance, secretarial and tax
We build the AML, regulatory, secretarial and data-protection frameworks a company needs, and we keep them current as the rules change. On the tax side we handle direct tax and GST workstreams and the company-secretarial calendar, so filings stop depending on the founder remembering them.
When founders call us
- The annual India calendar: DPT-3, FLA, DIR-3 KYC, AOC-4, MGT-7
- DPDP obligations for the data the product already collects
- Board process, registers and minutes that diligence will ask for first
Web3 and digital assets
A specialist practice for token issuers, exchanges, VASPs, funds and DAOs: VARA licensing in Dubai, FIU-IND registration in India, 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.
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.