Legal Advisory for India Entry & Business Setup

• Advice on India entry

• Choosing and setting up of business entities in India,

• Cross-border investments, mergers and acquisitions,

• Joint ventures

• Technology Collaboration

• Cross border commercial transactions

Outside / External General Counsel Services

Transactional Legal Services (M&A, JV, Fund-raising, Financing etc)

Specialized Corporate Advisory

SageCounsel is one of the very few legal service providers in India offering this service to meet the need of those corporates who need a seasoned corporate lawyer for taking important business-legal decisions and to obtain high-quality legal advice and execution but on a part-time basis which automatically leads to a cost-effective way of obtaining quality legal services. These services are a right fit for those corporates and businesses:

• Who needs a sounding board to show the right direction on commercial-legal issues fully focusing on client interest; or

• Who want to outsource entire legal function of their corporate including contract management, litigation management and advisory, or

• Who have a young in-house legal personnel or team but want a senior mentoring for their team and general supervision; or

• Who want to bridge short term resource crunch on account of long leave of members of legal team or additional work in short term without increasing pay roll obligations; or

• Need such legal advisor for a limited number of hours in a period and not on a full-time basis leading to value-driven legal services.

• Advising on the best structure and broad contours of the transaction considering all aspects holistically as a trusted partner;

• Due diligence (including vendor diligence and acquisition due diligence)

• Drafting, negotiating, and finalizing the preliminary agreements (if required) like term sheet/letter of intent/confidentiality agreements

• Drafting, negotiating, and finalizing definitive agreements like share purchase and shareholders agreement

• Supporting in the closing of the transaction

• Advice on issues related to FEMA, Companies Act, Contract Act, Telecom Laws, SEBI laws, legal and metrology, employment, regulatory and any other commercial laws.

• Designing and validating transaction and business structures.

• Advice on pre-litigation strategy for potential disputes

• Alternative dispute resolution including arbitration and mediation

• Negotiation services for negotiating settlements

• Mediator services and mediation advocacy (for negotiating win-win settlements)

• Managing disputes across different courts pan India and tribunals like NCLT, TDSAT etc

• Advising on ongoing disputes as a second opinion

Disputes Resolution

Corporate Insolvency and Bankruptcy

• Legal counsel to committee of creditors

• Legal counsel to Resolution Professional

• Legal counsel to Resolution Applicant

• Representation before National Company Law Tribunal and National Company Appellate Tribunal

Services

Commercial Contracts

Reviewing and drafting of commercial and business contracts in a way that the contracts are simple, a workable document for business teams to implement the contracts, furthers their business and mitigates risk.