We assist in Corporate Name Reservation, incorporation of entities under the provisions of Companies Act, Partnership, Limited Liability Partnership, Trust Act, Societies Act and Cooperative Societies Act.

All aspects of commercial and company related affairs, including advice, drafting and structuring corporate transactions and business contracts, shareholders agreements, share purchase agreements, incorporation of companies, takeovers, mergers & de-mergers, acquisitions, amalgamations, management buy-outs, equity related transactions like venture capital funding, private equity funding, joint ventures, banking, financing and other commercial matters etc.

We provide legal advice on the governance and transformation of your company structure. We fully understand legal requirements in this area as well as the wider business context from the client perspective.

We assist in Drafting and Vetting of documents like Agreements, Contracts, MOUs, Franchising agreements, Joint venture documents, Partnerships, documentation related to Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV), Banking and Finance related documents. These services can be availed as a one-time requirement or we could be empaneled as retainer for Legal Services.

In the event of your planning to buy or lease real estate, buy or sell your business (in whole or part), change the form of the company (from Private Limited to Limited company etc), planning Mergers, Amalgamation, acquisition we can assist in carrying out legal due diligence, draft documents, vetting of such agreements.

We can help build a robust legal compliance process to ensure all required legal documents are scrutinised in detail, create templates for routine contracts that your company enters into (standard form contracts) and have an official legal clearance process for every document signed by the company with external parties.

We will be your confidant and give you opinion on various ventures or way out of any legal situation that you may come across as part of your routine business or as a one off case.

• We offer consulting, Liaisoning & Advisory services under the provisions of Employee Provident Fund, Employee State Insurance, Gratuity, Payment of wages, Bonus, Labour Welfare, Factories Act, Shops & Commercial Establishment Act, Industrial Disputes Act.
• Advisory on labour issues, employment contracts, structure of HR process with maximum protection & minimum liability to management towards labour laws.
• Drafting of offer letter, appointment letter, termination letter & employment contracts and other employment agreements.
• Assistance in various labour law compliances.
• Drafting and vetting of companies’ human resource policy.
• Drafting of policy under Prevention of Sexual Harassment at workplace (POSH).
• Handling litigation related to workplace discrimination.
• Handling cases pertaining to workman compensation, gratuity, maternity, minimum wages and sector specific labour law advice on applicability, compliances, registrations and licenses.
• Registration & Compliance under PF & ESI.
• Registration & Compliance under Factories Act, 1948.
• Registration & Compliance under Shops & Commercial Establishment Act, 1953.
• Registration of Principal Employer under Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970.
• Obtaining trade licenses from local bodies.
• Professional Tax registration & Compliance.

Our services include Drafting of a Prevention of Sexual Harassment Policy, constitution of Internal Complaints Committee; we come in as retainer in internal complaints committee as external member, Training & awareness programs under the Act, Filing of Annual returns with Labour department.

We can work as an external member or a legal department representative of your company in Disciplinary committee, Remuneration Committee, Internal Complaints Committee, compliance committee etc.

Advice clients on employment, industrial, labour and other service law issues in India. This includes drafting, reviewing and finalizing documents pertaining to terms of appointment, conditions of service, transfer, lay-off, retrenchment, discharge or dismissal of employees, NDA & confidentiality agreements, structuring of voluntary retirement schemes and employee stock option, drafting & structuring of employee-services conditions and related issues.

We can draft various employee related policies for your organisation, standardise your offer letter, Appointment order, various policies, service guidelines that would be required to be implemented in the organisation and which is to be applied during the entire life cycle of an employee in your organisation. We also help in drafting Employee Hand Book considering various applicable laws of the state.

Advice corporates on the Privacy and Data Protection laws and the Information technology laws in terms of assistance in formulating necessary policies and its implementation across the organisation.

We shall keep you updated of any regulatory changes that may be applicable to your industry and business. This will help you modify your compliance policy and ensure compliance at any given point in time.

Advice corporates on Statutory Regulatory Compliance across variety of laws and statutes that is applicable to their line of business across different corporate functions and different geographical jurisdictions.

To help meet your corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals, Legal Aid Trust can create specific project proposals for your organization. We can manage and implement your CSR Projects.

Our team has extensive experience of representing clients in various Tribunals and we can act for you in any type of employment tribunal claim, from a straightforward wages claim through to more complex unfair dismissal, discrimination and collective claims arising out of TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings) or redundancy consultations (premature retirement, golden handshake etc). We will handle all aspects of any claim brought against you, including drafting pleadings, settlement/withdrawal negotiations and representing you at the hearing. We guarantee that you will be represented by an experienced person at all stages of the proceedings.