Products and Services Validation:
Utilizing AI to validate the compliance and legal standing of products and services, offering a robust framework for risk assessment and mitigation.
Data Management:
Implementing cutting-edge AI and automation solutions for efficient data management, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility while adhering to data protection regulations.
Ethics and Transparency:
Integrating AI tools to monitor and enforce ethical practices, promoting transparency in legal processes and decision making.
IPR Strategy:
Crafting and implementing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) strategies using AI and ML, optimizing portfolio management and safeguarding clients' intellectual assets.
IPR Infringements:
Rapid identification and assessment of potential IPR infringements through AI-powered analysis, facilitating timely legal action.
Design Improvement:
Employing AI and ML algorithms for design improvement, enhancing intellectual property
assets and staying ahead of market trends.
NDAs(Non-Disclosure Agreements):
Automated review and management of NDAs to ensure confidentiality, leveraging AI for quicker and more accurate assessments.
Regulatory Compliance:
Ensuring compliance with evolving regulations, including Cybersecurity, Privacy Laws, IPR Laws, and Data Protection, through AI-driven monitoring and adaptation.
Integration of AI, ML & Automation:
Integrating AI, ML, and Automation tools into daily legal practices for streamlined workflows, improved decision-making, and enhanced client service.
At LC-I, our commitment is to embrace innovation responsibly, utilizing AI, ML, and Automation to provide our clients with unparalleled legal services, marked by
efficiency, accuracy, and a proactive approach to emerging legal challenges.
Incorporation & Registration:
This involves assisting clients in establishing legal entities such as companies, partnerships, or LLCs. We facilitates the entire process, from drafting necessary documents to filing them with the relevant authorities.
Corporate Secretarial:
Managing corporate records, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, and handling administrative tasks fall under corporate secretarial services.
This helps companies adhere to regulatory standards and maintain proper documentation.
Drafting of Processes, Policies, and Compliance Documents:
We play a key role in creating and reviewing internal processes, policies, and compliance documents. This ensures that businesses operate within legal frameworks and adhere to industry-specific regulations.
Corporate Governance and Risk Oversight:
Providing guidance on corporate governance practices helps companies establish effective structures for decision-making, risk management, and accountability.
We assist in developing and implementing strategies to mitigate legal risks associated with business operations.
The startup services offered by our legal firm encompass a comprehensive range of support, including the formulation of Co-founders agreements to establish clear roles and responsibilities among founders.
We specialize in managing intricate capital structures, addressing equity distribution, and devising funding strategies tailored to the Start-up's needs.
Our expertise extends to the creation of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP), ensuring a structured and attractive incentive scheme for employees. We are committed to safeguarding your intellectual property rights through meticulous legal frameworks, including patents, trademarks, and trade secrets protection.
In addition, our legal team is dedicated to ensuring your startup's compliance with regulatory requirements. This includes assistance with business registrations, licensing procedures, and adherence to industry-specific regulations, providing a solid legal foundation for your startup's growth and success.
Tender Review (including RFP, RFQ):
Assessing and responding to tender requests, such as Requests for Proposal (RFP) or Requests for Quotation (RFQ), ensuring alignment with legal and business requirements.
Contract Drafting/Review/Negotiation (Customer and Vendor):
Creating, reviewing, and negotiating contracts with both customers and vendors, ensuring legal clarity and favourable terms for the client.
Escrow Agreement:
Drafting and managing Escrow Agreements, which involve a neutral third-party holding assets or funds until specific conditions are met.
Contract Repository Services:
Establishing and maintaining a centralized repository for contracts, ensuring easy access, version control, and efficient management of contractual documents.
Risk Identification & Mitigation:
Identifying potential risks within contracts and developing strategies to mitigate them, safeguarding the client's interests.
Responsive/Non-responsive Deviation Sheet:
Managing deviation sheets that outline any deviations from standard terms, ensuring clarity on acceptable variations during the contract negotiation process.
Legal & Commercial Support during Contract Execution:
Providing ongoing legal and commercial support during the execution phase of contracts, addressing issues that may arise and ensuring compliance with contractual obligations.
In-House Interactions with Company Management:
Collaborating with internal stakeholders, including company management, to align contracts with business objectives, address concerns, and provide legal guidance throughout the contract lifecycle.
Data Protection Compliance:
Ensuring compliance with data protection laws, safeguarding the processing and handling of personal data.
Data Privacy Compliance:
Focusing on protecting individuals' privacy by implementing policies and practices in line with data privacy regulations.
Data Security Compliance:
Addressing measures to secure data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction, aligning with relevant laws.
Cybersecurity Compliance:
Managing legal aspects related to cybersecurity, including regulatory compliance and incident response planning.
Secretarial Compliance:
Ensuring adherence to corporate governance regulations and maintaining statutory records and compliance documents.
Education Sector Compliance:
Addressing legal requirements specific to the education sector, including regulations related to academic standards, accreditation, and student data.
Labour & Employment Laws Compliance:
Overseeing compliance with labour and employment laws, covering aspects like contracts, working hours, wages, and employee rights.
Telecommunication Compliance:
Navigating the legal landscape in the telecommunications industry, ensuring compliance with regulations governing communication services.
Competition Law Issues in M&A:
Providing legal guidance on competition law aspects during mergers and acquisitions to ensure compliance with antitrust regulations.
Real Estate Compliance:
Addressing legal requirements related to real estate transactions, land use, zoning laws, and property regulations.
Due Diligence:
Conducting thorough due diligence processes to assess legal risks and compliance issues before entering business transactions.
Regulatory Compliance:
Ensuring overall compliance with applicable laws and regulations relevant to the industry or business and staying abreast of regulatory changes.
Negotiations and Document Preparation:
We specialize in negotiating favourable terms and meticulously preparing tendering documents, including Expressions of Interest (EOI), Requests for Proposals (RFP), and Terms of Reference (TOR), ensuring clarity and compliance.
Pre-Bid Activities:
Our services extend to organizing and overseeing Pre-Bid Meetings, providing a platform for stakeholders to gather crucial insights and address queries.
We excel in thorough Bid Evaluation, ensuring a fair and transparent assessment of proposals, followed by strategic Bid Negotiation.
Government Liaison:
Navigating regulatory landscapes is a core competency. We establish effective communication channels with government entities, ensuring compliance with regulations and fostering a smooth project progression.
Negotiations and Technical Collaborations:
Our legal expertise is applied to negotiations with partners and contractors, fostering technical collaborations that enhance project outcomes.
We focus on crafting agreements that align with the project's goals and mitigate potential risks.
Strategic Planning:
Our attorneys collaborate with clients to develop M&A strategies aligned with their business objectives, industry dynamics, and market conditions, helping them identify target companies, evaluate potential transactions, and assess risks and opportunities.
Due Diligence:
We conduct comprehensive due diligence investigations to assess the legal, financial, operational, and regulatory aspects of target companies, identifying potential risks, liabilities, and opportunities that may impact the
transaction.
Transaction Structuring:
Our attorneys assist clients in structuring M&A transactions, including selecting the appropriate deal structure, negotiating terms and conditions, drafting transaction documents, and implementing legal mechanisms to protect clients' interests and achieve desired outcomes.
Regulatory Compliance:
We navigate regulatory requirements and compliance issues related to M&A transactions, including antitrust regulations, securities laws, foreign investment regulations, tax implications, and industry-specific regulations governing mergers and acquisitions.
Negotiation and Documentation:
Our attorneys represent clients in negotiations with counterparties, vendors, shareholders, and regulatory authorities, drafting and negotiating transaction agreements, merger documents, purchase agreements, in-bound and out-bound transactions, share purchase agreements, shareholders agreements and ancillary contracts to ensure that terms are fair, enforceable, and legally compliant.
Post-Closing Integration:
We provide post-closing support to clients, assisting with integration planning, corporate governance restructuring, employment matters, intellectual property transfers, and other legal issues to facilitate a smooth transition and maximize the value of the transaction.
Securities Offerings:
Our attorneys advise issuers, underwriters, and investors on the structuring, registration, and execution of securities offerings, including initial public offerings (IPOs), follow-on offerings, debt offerings, private placements, preferential issues and offerings of structured finance products.
Regulatory Compliance:
We help clients navigate securities laws, regulations, and disclosure requirements imposed by regulatory authorities such as the SEC, SEBI, RBI, Stock Exchanges and Government Ministries ensuring compliance with securities regulations, corporate governance standards, and financial reporting obligations.
Due Diligence and Disclosure:
Our attorneys conduct legal due diligence reviews and assessments to identify legal, regulatory, and compliance risks associated with securities offerings, ensuring accurate and timely disclosure of material information to investors and regulatory authorities.
Corporate Governance:
We advise public companies, boards of directors, and executive management on corporate governance best practices, compliance with listing standards, regulatory requirements, and fiduciary duties, and shareholder engagement and activism.
Capital Market Transactions:
Our attorneys represent clients in capital market transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, securities exchanges, tender offers, share repurchases, and other strategic transactions that impact capital markets and investor interests.
Investor Relations
We assist companies in managing investor relations, shareholder communications, proxy solicitations, annual meetings, and regulatory filings, ensuring transparency, accountability, and effective communication with investors and stakeholders.
IP Strategy and Counselling:
We collaborate with clients to develop comprehensive IP strategies aligned with their business objectives. This involves conducting IP audits, identifying valuable assets, and formulating proactive measures to protect and exploit intellectual property rights effectively.
Patent Prosecution and Portfolio Management:
Our attorneys assist clients in securing patents for their inventions by drafting patent applications, prosecuting them before patent offices, and managing patent portfolios to maximize their value and enforceability.
Trademark Registration and Enforcement:
We help clients register trademarks for their brands, logos, and slogans, providing strategic counsel on trademark selection, clearance, and enforcement to prevent infringement and protect brand reputation.
Copyright Protection and Licensing:
Our attorneys advise clients on copyright registration, fair use, and licensing agreements, ensuring that their creative works are adequately protected and monetized while respecting the rights of content creators and owners.
Trade Secret Protection:
We assist clients in safeguarding trade secrets and confidential information through the implementation of trade secret protection programs, contractual safeguards, and litigation strategies to deter misappropriation and unauthorized disclosure.
Drafting and negotiation of IP agreements:
We assist clients in preparing different IP agreements (such as – Technology Transfer Agreement, License Agreement, Assignment Agreement, Reseller Agreement, No-Objection Certificates)
Passing off, IP Litigation and Dispute Resolution:
In cases of Passing off, infringement, or IP disputes, we represent our clients in litigation proceedings, arbitration, mediation, and negotiations, advocating for their interests and defending their intellectual property rights with skill and diligence.
Strategic Counsel:
Our attorneys provide strategic counsel to clients embroiled in disputes, analysing the legal issues at hand, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of their case, and formulating effective strategies for resolution.
Negotiation:
Our lawyers engage in negotiations on behalf of their clients, seeking to reach mutually acceptable agreements and settlements with opposing parties while protecting their interests and rights.
Mediation:
We facilitate mediation proceedings, serving as impartial mediators or representing clients in mediation sessions aimed at reaching consensus and resolving disputes amicably with the assistance of a neutral third party.
Arbitration:
Our attorneys represent clients in arbitration proceedings, presenting their case before an arbitrator or panel of arbitrators who render a binding decision based on the evidence and arguments presented by both parties.
Enforcement and Compliance:
Following resolution, we assist clients in enforcing settlement agreements, court judgments, or arbitral awards, as well as ensuring compliance with legal obligations and contractual terms.
Case Evaluation:
Our Attorneys conduct thorough evaluations of clients' cases, analysing legal issues, assessing strengths and weaknesses, and formulating effective strategies for litigation or arbitration.
Preparation and Representation:
We prepare and represent clients throughout the litigation or arbitration process, including drafting pleadings, motions, briefs, and other legal documents, as well as presenting arguments and evidence in court or before arbitral tribunals.
Discovery:
Our attorneys engage in the discovery process, which involves gathering and exchanging relevant information, documents, and evidence with opposing parties through methods such as depositions, interrogatories, requests for production, and subpoenas.
Negotiation:
We engage in negotiation efforts on behalf of their clients, seeking to reach favourable settlements or resolutions with opposing parties through dialogue, mediation, or settlement conferences.
Trial or Hearing Advocacy:
Our attorneys provide skilled advocacy and representation during trials, hearings, or arbitration proceedings, presenting arguments, examining witnesses, and cross-examining opposing parties to advance clients' positions and interests effectively.
Appeals:
In cases of adverse decisions, we handle appellate proceedings, filing appeals and advocating for clients' rights and interests before appellate courts to seek reversal or modification of lower court rulings.
Legal Compliance and Manuals:
Our attorneys assist employers in understanding and complying with applicable labour and employment laws, including federal, state, and local regulations governing minimum wage, overtime pay, workplace safety, anti-discrimination, and employee benefits. We assist client to develop HR Manuals (in respect to State wise compliance).
Policy Development:
We help employers develop and implement effective workplace policies, procedures, and practices designed to promote compliance with legal requirements, mitigate risks, and foster a positive work environment.
Employment Contracts:
Our attorneys draft, review, and negotiate employment contracts, agreements, and non-compete clauses to protect employers' interests, define terms of employment, and ensure enforceability of contractual obligations. We also draft Employment Agreements, Contractor Agreement, Manpower Outsourcing Agreement, Consulting Agreement, Training Agreement
Case Investigation and Dispute Resolution:
We represent employers and employees during case investigation and in resolving employment disputes, including claims of discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, wage and hour violations, and breach of contract, through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or litigation.
Workforce Management:
Our attorneys advise employers on various workforce management issues, including hiring, termination, layoffs, retrenchment, disciplinary actions, workplace investigations, and compliance with labour union agreements and collective bargaining requirements.
Training and Education:
We provide training and education programs for employers and employees on legal rights, responsibilities, and best practices in areas such as diversity and inclusion, anti-discrimination, harassment prevention, and workplace safety.