Legal support for Indian startups from formation to funding and growth. One legal team for incorporation, founder agreements, fundraising, IP protection, and the compliance that keeps your business standing.
Just incorporating, raising your first round, or scaling a team, share where you are and we’ll come back with a clear scope and fixed fee.
What a two-person founding team needs from a lawyer is nothing like what a Series A company needs. A startup lawyer in India has to move with you, incorporation and founder terms early on, fundraising documentation as you raise capital, IP protection as your product matures, and compliance that scales as you hire and grow. Generic legal services aren’t built for that pace. This page maps out what you actually need at each stage, and links through to the specific service for each.
Whether you’re searching for startup lawyers, a lawyer for startups, or startup legal services more broadly, the underlying need is the same: legal support that actually understands how startups operate, not a general practice treating your company like any other business.
Choosing the right structure and registering it correctly from day one.
Equity, roles, and decision-making settled before there’s a reason to disagree.
Vesting schedules that protect the company if a co-founder leaves early.
Making sure what founders build actually belongs to the company.
Offer letters and contracts that protect IP and confidentiality from day one.
Independent contractor terms that hold up, and secure IP the same way employment does.
Equity pool, vesting, and grant documentation for your first equity-compensated hires.
NDAs and IP protection for everyone who touches sensitive information or product.
The framework that sets valuation and key terms before the full round is documented.
Early-stage financing instruments drafted for your specific round.
The documents that actually close your round.
Governance, protective provisions, and exit terms for your investors and founders.
Getting your contracts and cap table diligence-ready before investors look.
Registering your brand name, logo, and slogan before someone else does.
Protecting code, content, and creative work your team produces.
Confirming IP created by founders, employees, and contractors belongs to the company.
Licensing your IP out, or licensing technology in, on terms that protect you.
Terms of service, subscription terms, and enterprise contracts for your product.
Contracts with suppliers and service providers that don’t leave you exposed.
Standing terms for ongoing commercial relationships, drafted once.
Protecting confidential information shared with partners and vendors.
The contract between your product and every user.
Compliant, clear policies for whatever data your product collects.
Statutory filings and governance requirements as your company grows.
Data protection compliance, check your own site’s gaps for free.
Labour law compliance as your headcount grows past the first few hires.
Compliance obligations if you sell directly to consumers.
Additional compliance layers depending on your industry.
Startup law isn’t one-size-fits-all. Your industry shapes what actually matters.
SaaS agreements, subscription terms, enterprise contracts, licensing, privacy, and data protection built for a software business.
Regulatory compliance, lending and payments documentation, investment structuring, KYC and AML considerations, and commercial agreements.
Marketplace agreements, consumer terms, privacy, refund policies, seller agreements, and brand protection.
Student terms, instructor agreements, content licensing, privacy, and the specific issues education businesses run into.
AI-specific terms, training data and IP questions, model licensing, software agreements, and enterprise contract terms for AI products.
My Legal Pal is led by Prakhar Rai, an advocate enrolled with the Bar Council of India and an alumnus of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, with a Master of Business Laws and 10+ years of experience. Rather than handing you off between different lawyers as your needs change, we work with founders from incorporation through funding, IP protection, and the compliance that comes with scaling, one legal team that already knows your business, not a new file each time.
Our full range of services across India.
Settle equity and roles before there’s a reason to disagree.
For your next funding round.
Tell us your stage, and we’ll come back with a clear scope and fixed fee.
