The documents that decide who owns your company.
Upload a shareholders agreement, founder agreement, term sheet or ESOP letter and get vesting, transfer restrictions, investor vetoes and IP assignment checked against Indian company law.
What people are surprised to learn
A transfer restriction that is not in the articles may not bind the company.
Companies Act Section 58 addresses transferability, and restrictions agreed only in a shareholders agreement are the classic Indian gap. We flag the restriction and name the provision so you can raise it with your advocate.
What this review checks
- Share transfer restrictions, and whether the articles carry them
- Founder vesting, cliffs, and good-leaver versus bad-leaver terms
- Buy-back valuation and forfeiture at nominal value
- Founder non-compete, and the goodwill exception under Section 27
- IP assignment to the company, including pre-incorporation work
- Investor vetoes, board composition and information rights
- Related-party transactions and loans under Sections 188 and 185/186
- Foreign investment under FEMA, and LLP versus company drafting
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