Corporate & Securities

Legal Castle has extensive experience in handling comprehensive range of
legal services from general corporate and commercial matters, guiding
companies on their business and legal issues to assisting and advising them
in relation to complex transactions in all areas of law across a wide spectrum
of domestic and cross border transactions.
The Firm’s clientele includes leading corporates and other commercial
organisations, investment banks and other financial institutions and PSUs.
The Firm has advised public and private companies, management teams,
investors and debt providers right through the business life cycle, from startup and first round finance through to mergers and acquisitions, MBO and
MBI transactions, development funding, and divestments. Clients are
diverse; our approach is always the same. We seek to develop
relationships with our clients, understand their needs and deliver quality
service.
The Firm’s General Corporate & Commercial team has substantial expertise
in handling corporate & commercial transactions and includes specialist
teams focussed on Company Laws, Information Technology Laws, IPR, Media
and Entertainment Laws, Labour Laws, Private Equity, Mergers and
Acquisitions, Litigation, and Real Estate.
SERVICES
• General Corporate and Commercial Laws advisory
• Strategy and structuring advisory
• Foreign Direct Investment
• Transaction structuring and ensure compliance with the legal and
regulatory framework
• Group and capital restructuring
• Management Buy Outs (“MBOs”) and Management Buy Ins (“MBI”)
• Support for Private Equity and Venture Capital Investments
• Due diligence exercises and corporate compliance solutions
• Drafting, reviewing, advising and negotiating documents / contracts /
agreements
• Labour Law support
• Oversee regulatory, tax and procedural compliance with applicable
laws.
Securities
Legal Castle securities practice is comprehensive and has been known
nationally. The clientele of this practice area on the one hand comprises of
experienced financial institutions or corporates across varying sectors and
jurisdictions as well as first time issuers, requiring thoroughsupport in
respect of legal, governing and constitutional compliance issues.
Services
The area of practice contains organizing and counselling on debt capital
markets, structured products offshore bond issuance, block trades,
institutional placements as well as transformable and redeemable bond
issues both in the domestic and in the international markets. Alternative
investment fund activities, asset-backed securities and real estate investment
trusts (REITs) are also part of the practice area.
The area of practice also includes marketing and regulatory advice, setting up
of a SEBI regulated entity, cross border activities triggering licensing
requirements in India, investment in Indian securities (equity, debt, hybrid
etc.). The Firm draws from its varied financial sector expertise to deal with the
feasibility of simple transactions to nuances of organized financial products.
The speciality of this practice is that it draws on the regulatory, capital
markets and tax know-how to provide optimum solutions to clients
The Firm is also adept at tackling securities related disputable matters, and
draws on the capability of the dispute resolution team and the securities team
which work in tandem with our clients to help evaluate the problems, their
consequences, and the manner in which the issues which have arisen may be
dealt with, including handling regulatory aspects in respect of the same.