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Startup law in India sits across company law, foreign exchange, tax and labour law, and several of those areas changed in 2025 and 2026.
These guides cover founders’ agreements, equity incentives, funding instruments, reverse flips, the new labour codes and the Income-tax Act, 2025, and what changes for cross-border founders.
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Every co-founder relationship starts with optimism, and putting rules on paper feels almost insulting. Eighteen months in, it can sink the company. Here is what a founders agreement must contain in India.
For many UK businesses, India starts as a cost-saving idea and grows into something bigger. At some point the business needs its own Indian company. Here is how to set one up: structure, directors, FEMA, tax, transfer pricing and compliance.
ESOPs are the closest thing a startup has to a magic trick. Done badly, they leave people with tax bills on paper gains and options that lapse the day they resign. Here is how to do them properly.
After more than a decade of negotiations, the UK and India have a free trade agreement in force. A trade deal opens a door; it does not walk you through it. Here is a practical legal checklist for UK companies entering India.
The old playbook was to incorporate in Delaware or Singapore. It is now running in reverse. Here is how a reverse flip works in India, what it costs in tax, and what founders miss.
Most solicitors know the feeling: a full diary and a growing pile of research, bundles, chronologies and first drafts. Here is how offshore paralegal teams actually work for UK firms, from tasks and supervision to costs and data security.
Every conversation about outsourcing in a UK law firm reaches the same question: is this a reserved activity? The list of reserved legal activities is shorter, and the line clearer, than many people assume. Here is how to draw it.
Legal outsourcing for UK law firms has become one of the most practical answers to rising salaries, fixed-fee pressure and routine work. Here is what the SRA expects, the duties that stay with your firm, and a checklist for outsourcing to India.
The government’s biggest attempt in years to ease company compliance is still a Bill. Here is what it would change for startups: small company limits, RSUs and SARs, fast-track mergers, decriminalisation and CSR, and what to do while it makes its way through Parliament.
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