TL;DR: A fintech startup in India needs two layers of legal documentation most other startups don’t: the standard founding, employment, and IP documents every company needs, and a distinct set of RBI-mandated compliance documents, KYC/AML policies, data localisation compliance, Fair Practices Code, and, depending on your specific model, Payment Aggregator or NBFC licensing documentation, that […]
Author Archives: Prakhar Rai
TL;DR: A SaaS reseller agreement governs a fundamentally different relationship from your standard subscription terms. Instead of a direct end-user paying you, a third party resells, rebrands, or bundles your software under its own commercial relationship with the end customer, which changes who owns the customer data, who collects and remits sales tax, who’s liable […]
TL;DR: Argentina’s data protection framework, Ley 25.326, predates both GDPR and CCPA by well over a decade, and it holds something neither of those frameworks has with each other: an active EU adequacy decision, reconfirmed by the European Commission as recently as January 2024, making Argentina the only Latin American jurisdiction with that status. But […]
TL;DR: A Data Protection Impact Assessment, or DPIA, is a structured review of how your company processes personal data, what risks that creates for the people whose data it is, and whether your safeguards are actually adequate. Under India’s DPDP Rules, 2025, a DPIA is not required for every business, it is a specific, mandatory […]
TL;DR: A foreign company cannot file a trademark application in India without appointing an Indian trademark agent or attorney who provides a local address for service, this is a mandatory legal requirement, not a convenience. You then choose between two genuinely different routes, direct national filing or designating India through the Madrid Protocol, and the […]
TL;DR: Splitting founder equity fairly means measuring contributions across two categories, financial (cash actually invested) and non-financial (time, expertise, network, and risk), converting both into a common scale, and applying vesting so the split is earned over time rather than fixed at signing. This guide walks through a genuine, worked calculation method, not just “have […]
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TL;DR: Real due diligence at a serious law firm doesn’t stop at reading the financial statements and skimming a few contracts. It runs through corporate compliance history with the Registrar of Companies, every category of litigation the target could be exposed to, statutory labour and POSH compliance, tax structuring, IP chain of title, and material […]
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Quick overview: This guide isn’t another price list. It’s about why the range you’ll see quoted, anywhere from a couple of thousand rupees to well into six figures for the same-sounding task, actually varies as much as it does, and what genuinely drives the number up or down for your specific situation. For our own […]
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Quick overview: This is a condensed, step-by-step procedural guide to actually enforcing a contract in India once the other party hasn’t performed, structured so you can follow it in order. For the fuller playbook covering the reasoning behind each option and how to choose between them, our complete guide to what to do if someone […]
TL;DR: If a contractor or freelancer you paid to build something, code, a design, a product feature, is now using that same work to compete with you or sell it elsewhere, what you can actually do depends heavily on whether your contract included a proper, specific IP assignment clause. Where it did, you likely have […]