Practice Areas

Team Samvitti specializes in various significant arenas of legal practice covering foreign investments; mergers and acquisitions; private equity and other investment transactions; rendering general corporate law and transactional advisory; drafting of all types of commercial contracts and dispute resolution and litigation. A detailed lay out of the practice areas handled by team Samvitti is set out below:

Corporate Law Profile

  • Foreign investments, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, business transfers, joint ventures, stock purchase and asset purchase, corporate restructuring, overseas direct investments, investment structures and commercial advisory, both for domestic and cross-border transactions;
  • Drafting and negotiating share subscription agreements, share purchase agreements, shareholders’ agreements, business transfer agreements and other investment/ acquisition related agreements;
  • Advising investee companies and promoters as well as investors in respect of exit opportunities sought by investors; Carrying out pre-investment and post-investment legal due diligence, compliance and regulatory audits.
  • Advising banks and borrower companies with respect to loan documentation, drafting and advising in relation to creation of securities like mortgages, guarantees, hypothecation, pledge, etc.
  • Advising foreign banks as well as Indian borrower companies in respect of external commercial borrowings (ECB), reviewing and advising in relation to the regulations of the Reserve Bank of India in respect thereof.
  • Advising and carrying out compliances with respect to foreign exchange laws, Companies Act, Drugs & Cosmetics Act, insurance laws, intellectual property laws, privacy and technology related laws, regulatory advisory pertaining to the e-commerce sector, compliance under various statutes and regulators including Securities & Exchange Board of India and Reserve Bank of India.

Advising and representing the issuer companies and merchant bankers in relation to capital market transactions including IPOs, QIPs etc.

  • Incorporation of companies, LLPs, setting up of partnership firms, trusts etc.
  • Drafting and negotiating all types of general commercial contracts including franchise agreements, employment agreements, non-disclosure agreements, technology related agreements, software agreements, terms of use for a website, website privacy policies, manpower agreements, escrow agreements, service contracts, indemnity bonds, non-compete agreements, trust deeds, loan and security creation, trademark assignment, etc.

Dispute Resolution profile