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05 / Practice area

Corporate & Regulatory Compliance

Compliance is a calendar and a set of habits. We help you build both, so that a notice is never the first time you hear about a deadline.

What it includes

The work, in plain terms.

  • 01

    Company law compliance

    Board and shareholder resolutions, statutory registers and annual filings under the Companies Act, 2013. We work alongside your company secretary or chartered accountant.

  • 02

    FEMA touchpoints for cross-border work

    Foreign investment into Indian companies, overseas investment, payments for services and the reporting that follows under the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999.

  • 03

    Employment and policy documents

    Offer letters, employment agreements, confidentiality and invention assignment terms, and the workplace policies a growing team needs.

  • 04

    Ongoing compliance calendars

    A dated list of what is due, under which law, and who owns it. Updated when the law changes.

Who it is for

This work is for companies past incorporation whose obligations have started to outgrow one person’s memory.

  • Private companies with growing teams
  • Indian subsidiaries of foreign companies
  • Businesses with a regulator asking questions
  • Companies preparing for an investor’s legal review

Typical matters

  • 01A compliance calendar for a private limited company
  • 02Foreign investment reporting under FEMA
  • 03An employment agreement set and staff handbook
  • 04Board and shareholder resolutions for a fundraise
  • 05Replying to a regulatory notice

Relevant law

  • Companies Act, 2013
  • Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999
  • Applicable central and state employment laws

This page describes the area of practice in general terms. It is information about the firm’s work, not legal advice, and it does not create a lawyer-client relationship.

Related areas

Often part of the same matter.

  • 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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  • 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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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