India · Startups and Founders
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. This page maps what you need at each stage and links through to the specific service for each. Not sure where you stand? Start with our free startup legal health check or the startup legal compliance checklist.
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.
Qualifying for Startup India benefits once the company is in place.
Customer, vendor and hiring contracts for a growing startup are handled by our contract lawyers in India.
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.
How hires, options and investors change who owns what.
The framework that sets valuation and key terms before the full round is documented.
Early-stage financing instruments compared and drafted for your specific round.
The documents that actually close your round.
Governance, protective provisions, and exit terms for your investors and founders.
Getting IP, 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.
Subscription terms, SLAs, 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.
Compliance obligations if you sell directly to consumers.
Additional compliance layers depending on your industry, covered below.
Your industry shapes what actually matters. Pick yours for a dedicated page, or see our technology law overview.
Contracts, privacy and licensing for software businesses.
Regulatory and commercial documentation for financial products.
Marketplace, seller and consumer-facing legal needs.
Student, instructor and content terms for education businesses.
Training data, model licensing and enterprise 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. 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.
Ongoing legal support on a predictable monthly basis.
See where your startup’s legal gaps are.
For SaaS, AI and platform businesses.
Local support for Bangalore founders.
Local support for Hyderabad founders.
Local support for Mumbai founders.
Tell us your stage, and we’ll come back with a clear scope and fixed fee.
