External General Counsel

To succeed in India’s dynamic business environment, organizations navigate a complex and constantly evolving legal and regulatory landscape. Yet not every organisation engages an extensive inhouse legal team. ThinkLaw functions as a trusted external legal counsel, delivering high-quality, efficient, and cost-effective legal solutions and provides end-to-end support across all facets of commercial activities. We collaborate closely with organizations to ensure legal compliance, mitigate potential risks, and foster long-term business growth.

Services Offered:

Our legal support encompasses a broad range of services, including but not limited to:

• Contract Management: After understanding the client’s business, commercial needs and expectations, we provide end to end support and skilfully facilitate drafting, negotiation and finalisation of complex commercial agreements. We endeavour to provide creative solutions that align with the company’s strategic goals, whilst ensuring enforceability. We also assist clients in navigating disputes that may arise during the performance of a contract.  The team is also well-equipped in operating and managing various contract management software deployed by large corporates and co-ordinating with various business units to understand the specific business needs, especially in the FMCG and manufacturing sectors. 
• Compliance and advisory: Regardless of their size and scale, from startups to multinational conglomerates, organizations encounter legal and compliance issues on a day-to-day basis due to ever evolving laws, and require immediate legal expertise and counsel.  The team at ThinkLaw is equipped to provide practical solutions keeping in view the legal framework, on a wide range of legal issues across various industries and sectors.
• Corporate governance: The team at ThinkLaw understands the increased responsibilities and liabilities on directors, particularly independent directors. The team advises the Board on various governance and regulatory issues to facilitate mitigation of liabilities to the company and the Board. We also closely work with the Board to respond to enquiries, notices and investigations against the company and the Board and advises on the nuances in relation to various reporting and disclosure obligations under a host of laws. 
• Employment and Labor Law: Our team is experienced in handling various employment law issues, including, advising on:
• • Employment policies, employment contracts and workforce management.
  • Employment policies, employment contracts and workforce management.
  • Statutory contributions, stock options and incentives.
  • POSH issues.
• Intellectual Property (IP) Management: The firm has a specialised team that provides end-to-end IP prosecution, protection and advisory, which includes but is not limited to:
• • Registration of trademarks and copyrights including filing applications and documents in support of registration, appearing and representing before Trademark and Copyright Registry for registration, prosecution, opposition proceedings, assignment, licensing and renewal of IP.
  • Advising and assisting on global IP registration.
  • IP acquisition, licensing and exploitation.
  • Advising and assisting on IP infringement, IP enforcement actions, and IP disputes.
• Legal Due Diligence and Commercial Transactions: We advise and assist clients in conducting periodic legal health-checks and due diligences for mitigation of risk and loss, and in preparedness of third-party investments. The team at ThinkLaw is specialised in providing end-to-end legal services pertaining to commercial transactions (mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, scheme of arrangement, private equity or venture capital) across various industries. Our services include but are not limited to drafting, negotiating and assisting in execution of term sheets, share purchase agreements, asset purchase agreements, share subscription agreements, shareholders’ agreements, business transfer agreements, joint venture agreements, merger/ demerger schemes, escrow agreements, promoter employment agreements. We also provide support to our clients in respect of the post-closing compliance requirements in a transaction, to ensure that our clients’ interests are protected for the entire life cycle of a transaction.
• Disputes Management: Lawyers at ThinkLaw represent clients before multiple fora and regulators, in commercial disputes. We devise the entire pre-litigation and dispute resolution strategy for corporate and commercial disputes, right from the district courts all the way upto the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. Under the external counsel practice, we work with the legal and business team of the client for:
• • Devising legal strategies after understanding the commercial objectives of the client.
  • Managing regular and high stakes litigations/disputes with vendors, customers, employees, and other third parties and stakeholders.
  • Representing before judicial and quasi-judicial fora across cities in India and internationally, where the client has operations, customers, vendors or general presence, through the firm’s network of local attorneys.
  • Representing in arbitrations and mediations and other ADR.
  • Advising in consumer cases.
  • Co-ordinating with local attorneys.