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 […]
Author Archives: Prakhar Rai
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Sep
Sep
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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Sep
Sep
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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Aug
Aug
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 […]
TL;DR: A liquidated damages clause fixes, in advance, what one party owes the other if a specific breach occurs, most commonly a delay in delivery or completion. Whether that clause actually holds up depends heavily on which country’s law governs the contract, and the test has genuinely shifted in recent years in ways many templates […]
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Aug
Aug
TL;DR: Legal retainers in India typically start around Rs 10,000 a month for early-stage startups and scale up to Rs 50,000 a month or more for established companies with ongoing fundraising, compliance, and dispute needs. What actually determines the price is not a flat rate but a combination of document volume, response time, and how […]
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Aug
Aug
TL;DR: In most of the world, a verbal agreement can be just as legally binding as a written one, provided it has the basic ingredients of a contract, offer, acceptance, consideration, and an intention to be legally bound. The real risk with a verbal agreement was never enforceability in principle. It is proof in practice, […]
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Aug
Aug
TL;DR: Being accused of breach of contract is not the same as having actually breached one. A genuine defense may fully apply, the accusation may be a pressure tactic, or the real issue may be a dispute the other party is dressing up as breach. What you do in the first few days after the […]
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Aug
Aug
TL;DR: Argentina is a civil-law country, and its private law runs through one unified code, the Código Civil y Comercial de la Nación (CCCN), not a patchwork of common-law precedent. A contract that would hold up perfectly well in New York or London can still fail under Argentine law if it ignores form requirements, currency […]