General Corporate Advisory

We provide strategic advice on data protection, technology services, securities laws, insurance regulations, competition law, anti-trust, and financial services compliance. Supporting both established corporations and startups, we deliver day-to-day operational counsel and contract review through retainer arrangements, ensuring products and businesses are structured to meet regulatory and foreign exchange requirements.

Regulatory

§  Digital Lending: Advising on business models involving banks, NBFCs, lending service providers, and P2P platforms. Drafting lending documentation, co-lending agreements, DLG structures, and KYC/AML policies in compliance with Reserve Bank of India (Digital Lending) Directions, 2025.

§  Payment Systems & Aggregators: Advising on licensing and regulatory compliance for payment aggregators, payment gateways, prepaid instruments, bill payment models and cross-border payment structures. Drafting merchant agreements, user policies, and operational compliance frameworks under the PSS Act and Guidelines on Regulation of Payment Aggregators and Payment Gateways.

§  Insurance & InsurTech Platforms: Advising digital insurance intermediaries, including web aggregators, brokers, and corporate agencies. Advising on IRDAI regulations, licensing, and compliance.

§  Stock Broking, WealthTech & AMCs: Providing regulatory advisory for execution-only platforms, stockbrokers, online bond platforms, and mutual fund distributors. Drafting client onboarding documents, risk disclosures, and SEBI/AMFI-compliant investor terms.

§  Climate Technology and Energy Transition: providing legal advise on carbon credit generating projects as well as advising on structuring of deals involving the generation and trading of carbon credits.

§  Asset Management & Investment Platforms: Assisting wealth management apps, and online fund platforms on SEBI/AMFI regulatory frameworks. Preparing investor agreements, profiling tools, fee disclosures, and compliance documents.

§  Life Sciences & Healthcare: Advising healthcare and healthtech startups on various aspects of compliance and regulatory issues arising in the industry.

§  Regulatory Licensing & Compliance: End-to-end support on regulatory applications before RBI, IRDAI, SEBI, and AMFI. Ongoing compliance management, policy drafting, reporting obligations, and regulatory liaison.

Data Privacy

§  Regulatory Compliance: Compliance and advisory on provisions under the Information Technology Act, 2000, Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011, Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, Digital Personal Data Protection Act, ASCI advertising guidelines, specific regulator's guidelines such as those proposed by the RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, UIDAI including advising on the cybersecurity frameworks as well as other data protection legislations including GDPR.

§  Documentation: Advising on consent artefacts and assistance with drafting such artefacts. Drafting and reviewing privacy policies of various clients across IT/ITes, manufacturing, logistics, e-commerce etc. including advising on manner of data collection, retention, storage, and deletion in compliance with applicable laws. Drafting and reviewing DPAs, SCCs, and Information Security Policies.

Commercial Agreements

§  IT/ITES: Drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts including software license and software subscription agreements, marketplace agreements, SaaS and PaaS agreements, cloud services agreements, IP assignment agreements, and reseller agreements.

§  Marketing Agencies: Drafting, reviewing and negotiating celebrity endorsement agreements, market research agreements, and marketing and advertisements agreements, and franchise agreements.

§  Regulated Entities: Drafting, reviewing and negotiating agreements for clients in the regulatory sector such as merchant onboarding agreement, co-lending agreements, referral agreement, collection agency agreement etc.

§  Manufacturing/Shipping and Logistics: Drafting, reviewing and negotiating production agreements, contract manufacturing, manpower supply agreements, consultancy agreements, master services agreements, shipping and logistics agreements, warehousing agreements, Sale or Return (SOR) terms, and contract manufacturing agreements.

§  Other Agreements: Drafting, reviewing and negotiating property and car lease agreements, agreements with entities providing charging infrastructure for EVs, agreements with production house, artist agreements, agreements with various distributors for distribution of content.

ESOPs

§  Documentation: Drafting ESOP policy, grant letters and other communication relating to ESOPs.

§  Advisory: Advising on best practices and options based on commercial objectives.

§  Execution: Assistance in compliance with Companies Act, 2013 and SEBI regulations.

Advisory

§  Structuring business models and drafting operating agreements for compliance with foreign direct investment laws and other sector specific requirements (e-commerce rules, regulations issued by SEBI, IRDA etc.).