HALVERTON & CO.

Halverton & Co. · Indian law firm · Technology, IP and digital assets

Where tech needs law!

We advise founders and technology companies on intellectual property, technology and AI law, digital assets, and regulatory compliance. We practise in Jharkhand, Maharashtra and before the Supreme Court of India.

Practice areasWrite to us
  • Intellectual property
  • Technology & AI
  • Digital assets
  • Startups
  • Compliance

00 / Position

Software ships every week. Statutes do not. We work in the gap between the two, so that what you build is yours in law, and stays yours.

01 / What we do

Five areas of practice.

Each has its own statutes and its own regulators. In a technology business they tend to arrive together, so we treat them as one body of work.

01

Intellectual Property

Trade marks, copyright, patents and designs. Searched, filed, licensed and enforced under Indian law.

  • Trade Marks Act 1999
  • Copyright Act 1957
  • Patents Act 1970
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02

Technology & AI Law

Contracts, data protection and AI policies for products that handle other people’s data.

  • IT Act 2000
  • DPDP Act 2023
  • Open source
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03

Crypto, Web3 & Digital Assets

Advice for virtual digital asset businesses on registration, reporting and structure.

  • PMLA
  • FIU-IND
  • Token structuring
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04

Startups & Venture

From incorporation to term sheet. The documents a company needs to be fundable.

  • DPIIT recognition
  • ESOPs
  • Shareholders’ agreements
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Also

Disputes & Litigation

Courts and tribunals in Jharkhand and Maharashtra, and the Supreme Court. IP and technology first.

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02 / How we work

How a matter runs

The order matters more than the paperwork. Most legal trouble in a young company comes from documents written before anyone understood the business.

  1. Step 01

    Understand the business

    We start with how the company earns, who its users are and where their data goes. The legal questions come out of that, not the other way round.

  2. Step 02

    Map the legal risk

    We list what applies to you: which statutes, which regulators, which contracts. You get a written note in order of priority.

  3. Step 03

    Build the documents and filings

    Agreements, policies, applications and registrations. Drafted for your business, not pulled from a folder of templates.

  4. Step 04

    Stay on as counsel

    Legal work rarely ends at signing. As the product, the team and the law change, we remain your counsel.

03 / Fractional counsel

A legal team, without a full-time hire.

Some companies need a lawyer every week but not every day. As fractional general counsel, we act as your legal function for an agreed scope: contracts, compliance, policies and the questions that come up in between. It suits startups, SaaS, FinTech, Web3 and cross-border companies.

  • Contracts reviewed, drafted and negotiated
  • A compliance calendar someone owns
  • A lawyer who already knows your business
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04 / Where we practise

Two states and the apex court.

We appear before courts and tribunals in Jharkhand and Maharashtra, and before the Supreme Court of India.

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  • Jharkhand

    Courts, tribunals and authorities in Jharkhand.

  • Maharashtra

    Courts, tribunals and authorities in Maharashtra.

  • Supreme Court of India

    Appeals and petitions before the apex court.

Articles

Latest articles on Indian law.

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05 / Writing

Notes on Indian law for people who build things.

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06 / Contact

Write to us about what you are building.

Send a short note on the business and the issue. Sending a message does not create a lawyer-client relationship.

Write to the firmoffice@halvertonandco.com