The Legist Corporate Practice is a blend of comprehensive legal expertise and practical business counseling that enables our clients to set goals with clarity, find solutions, flag potential pitfalls and achieve desired results. Our attorneys are adept in understanding and offering a broad cross-section of legal experience combined with an intimate knowledge of our client’s requirement and objectives, and are able to provide creative, value-added and unconventional solutions that move beyond the standard legal response. The Legist offers services to small- and medium-sized businesses, Fortune 500 companies and other organisations with trust and commitment on a wide variety of corporate issues.
We assist our clients looking for investment opportunities, by guiding them through the complexities of structuring and executing the transactions on optimal business and legal terms. Our experience includes the acquisition and disposition of businesses through mergers, acquisitions of assets or stock, leveraged buyouts, friendly and contested tender offers, and proxy contests on behalf of both target companies and acquirers. We have experience representing strategic acquirers and sellers engaged in industry consolidations to rapidly accomplish our client’s goals in a pragmatic, responsive and cost-effective manner.
Our team includes corporate, securities, tax, finance, benefits, creditors’ rights, intellectual property, IT, real estate, litigation, and regulatory lawyers who are recognized for their substantive knowledge and the outcomes they achieve for our clients. Our multidisciplinary approach is a central concept to structuring and executing highly-sophisticated assignments.
Our clients count on The Legist for support in all aspects of the joint venture process, from structuring the economics and developing exit and termination rights, to providing workable governance and dispute resolution procedures. Our attorneys take a practical, business-oriented approach to joint ventures, anticipating "real problems” so that our clients are equipped to handle and tackle before they arise.
We also render commercial contract support for in-house legal teams and also handle major projects and business-critical contracts for companies across sectors. The team has dedicated commercial lawyers who at any one time will be working on deals ranging from straightforward agreements to complex multi-party projects spanning multiple jurisdictions.
Our advice covers all kinds of commercial agreements including purchase and supply, partnering, agency and distribution, franchise, logistics and warehousing, facilities management, management arrangements, commercial outsourcing, joint ventures, partnerships and strategic alliances. We believe in the strategic alliance as a business medium, we understand its importance to our clients' businesses and have significant experience implementing strategic alliances by way of joint ventures.
The diversity of our services is one of our greatest strengths. On behalf of businesses and investment firms of all sizes across a wide spectrum of industry sectors, we handle a full range of negotiated and contested transactions, including:
- Company Incorporation & Formation
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Joint ventures
- Leveraged buyouts
- Technology transfer
- Stock and asset acquisitions of public and private companies
- Divestitures
- Tender offers and proxy contests
- Recapitalizations
- Rights offerings
- Strategic investments
- Restructurings and workouts.
- Obtaining approvals, sanctions, permissions, registration from various statutory authorities i.e., ROC, CLB, RBI, DGFT, EPC’s etc.
- Formation of Trust, Societies.
