Corporate & Business Agreement Drafting: Strategic Commercial Documentation
A business relationship is only as secure as the instrument that governs it. We draft bespoke partnership, shareholder, co-founder, and exit agreements — engineered around the Indian regulatory framework to protect equity, intellectual property, and control, and built to hold up when a relationship is tested.
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Commercial Instruments Engineered to Endure
In the modern corporate ecosystem, a business relationship is only as secure as the legal instrument that governs it. Generic contracts often fail to account for complex fiduciary duties, equity dilution, and intellectual property protection, leaving stakeholders vulnerable to protracted litigation. We provide bespoke, comprehensive drafting services that align your commercial objectives with the Indian regulatory framework, ensuring your ventures are built on a foundation of absolute legal certainty.
Unlike automated legal platforms that utilise rigid, one-size-fits-all templates, our commercial drafting is informed by decades of courtroom experience. We understand the specific interpretation of contractual clauses by judges, ensuring that your business agreements don't just exist on paper — they hold up under scrutiny in the face of contractual disputes.
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Essential Protections Enforced in Our Drafts
Equity & Vesting Schedules
Clear equity vesting metrics, cliff periods, and exit mechanisms that protect the company's valuation during founder departures and reward continued contribution.
Intellectual Property Ownership
Every business-related asset is legally assigned to the corporate entity, preventing individual claims and the dilution of corporate value on a founder's exit.
Governance & Control Rights
Carefully structured voting rights, tag-along and drag-along rights, and anti-dilution provisions that maintain operational control and protect minority shareholders.
Non-Compete & Non-Solicitation
Enforceable restrictive covenants — calibrated to reasonable scope, geography, and duration — that safeguard your client base and talent pool post-exit.
What We Need to Draft Your Agreement
How We Engineer Your Agreement
We do not start from a template — we start from the fault lines. Every agreement is engineered clause by clause to reflect your commercial intent today and to hold firm the day a relationship is tested.
1Step 1: Structure & Risk Mapping
We map the entity type, the relationship between the parties, the proposed equity or ownership structure, and the specific fault lines — founder exit, deadlock, IP leakage — that the agreement must pre-empt.
2Step 2: Clause Architecture
We draft every load-bearing provision: capital and profit sharing, vesting and cliffs, IP assignment, reserved matters, tag-along and drag-along rights, non-compete, and a binding arbitration clause.
3Step 3: Negotiation & Alignment
Both sides review the draft; we mediate the contested clauses and translate the agreed commercial terms into precise, unambiguous language that survives judicial scrutiny.
4Step 4: Execution, Stamping & Registration
We finalise the agreement on correctly valued stamp paper, guide execution and notarisation, and — where a partnership deed is involved — assist with registration before the Registrar of Firms.
Corporate and business agreements are typically drafted within 4–7 working days. Multi-party shareholder agreements for funded ventures, involving several rounds of negotiation, usually take 7–14 working days.
Documents Required
Party Identification
- PAN and Aadhaar of every individual party
- Certificate of incorporation for corporate parties
- Board resolution or authority letter to execute
Entity & Structure
- Existing partnership deed, MoA/AoA, or shareholders' agreement
- Current cap table or shareholding pattern
- Registered trademarks, patents, or copyrights to be assigned
Commercial Terms
- Agreed equity split or profit-sharing ratio
- Capital contribution and funding schedule
- Proposed roles, remuneration, and reserved matters
Statutory Frameworks We Navigate
Indian Contract Act, 1872
The bedrock of all commercial transactions — ensuring clarity in offer, acceptance, consideration, and enforceability, so every covenant we draft rests on solid legal ground.
Companies Act 2013 & LLP Act 2008
Precise structuring of corporate governance, capital contribution, and fiduciary liabilities for private limited companies and LLPs.
Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996
Robust dispute-resolution mechanisms — domestic and international — that bypass conventional court delays and resolve conflicts through binding arbitration.
The Litigator's Edge
We draft with a "litigation-proof" mindset. By anticipating founder disputes and contractual breaches at the drafting stage, we insulate your business from future instability.
Common Questions
What founders and partners ask before commissioning an agreement
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