Advocate Mohammad Kamran
- 10+ Years of Legal Experience
- Enrolled with the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh
- Certificate of Practice holder
Corporate Lawyer in Lucknow
Legal support for a business across its documentation, its obligations and the disputes it encounters.
Corporate and Contracts
What this covers
Businesses tend to need legal input at three moments: when they are being set up or restructured, when they are entering into something significant, and when something has gone wrong. Work done at the first two of those is far cheaper than work done at the third, and considerably more effective.
This page covers corporate work generally — advice on structure and documentation, the internal records a business is expected to keep, and commercial disputes. The individual drafting services have their own pages, linked below, and registration and tax compliance are handled within the firm's other practice areas.
Who this may assist
Who this service may assist
If your situation is not listed, it does not mean it cannot be dealt with. It means it should be discussed.
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Founders setting up
You are deciding between a proprietorship, a partnership, an LLP or a company, and want the consequences explained.
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Established businesses
Documentation has grown piecemeal and needs to be reviewed as a whole.
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Businesses entering a significant transaction
A large contract, a new partner or an investment requires documentation.
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Businesses facing a commercial dispute
A counterparty is in breach and the contractual position needs assessment.
Scope
Typical matters handled
- Advice on business structure and on the consequences of each form
- Constitutional documents, partnership deeds and LLP agreements
- Commercial contracts with customers, suppliers, agents and distributors
- Advice on statutory registers, resolutions and internal records under the Companies Act, 2013
- Commercial disputes, including notices, negotiation and proceedings
- Ongoing advisory support under a retainer arrangement
Process
How the work generally proceeds
The sequence varies with the facts and the forum. This is the usual shape of it.
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Step 01
Understanding the business
What it does, how it earns, who it contracts with, and what has caused difficulty so far.
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Step 02
Reviewing the existing documents
Constitutional documents, contracts in use, employment papers and any notices received.
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Step 03
Identifying the gaps
What is undocumented, what is out of date, and what carries risk disproportionate to the transaction.
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Step 04
Documenting
Drafting or revising the agreements, in a form the business can actually use repeatedly.
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Step 05
Continuing support
Advice as questions arise, either matter by matter or under a retainer.
Preparation
Documents commonly required
Bringing what you have makes the first discussion considerably more useful. Missing items can be obtained later.
- Certificate of incorporation or registration, and the constitutional documents
- Partnership deed or LLP agreement, with any amendments
- Existing customer, vendor and service agreements in current use
- Employment documents — appointment letters, policies, any standard contract
- Registrations held, including tax registrations
- Any notice, claim or correspondence relating to a live dispute
Cautions
Common risks and mistakes
- Trading on templates nobody has readA downloaded agreement often contains clauses irrelevant to the business and omits the ones it needs.
- Leaving liability uncappedContracts silent on limitation of liability expose the business to claims out of proportion to the contract value.
- Not keeping internal recordsResolutions and registers matter when a transaction or a dispute requires proof of authority.
- Mixing personal and business affairsWhere the form of the business depends on separation, blurring it undermines the protection the structure was chosen for.
- Signing without authorityWho may bind the business, and up to what value, should be settled internally and reflected in the documents.
See also
Related services
Reading
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General information notes on this area. They are not legal advice.
The practice
Advocates
Each advocate of the firm is enrolled with the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh and holds a Certificate of Practice.
Advocate Hamid Razzaq
- 15+ Years of Legal Experience
- Enrolled with the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh
- Certificate of Practice holder
Advocate Mohd. Mateen
- 20+ Years of Legal Experience
- Enrolled with the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh
- Certificate of Practice holder
Questions
Frequently asked questions
It depends on how many people are involved, whether outside investment is contemplated, what compliance burden is acceptable and how liability should sit. Each form has consequences that are easier to choose between at the start than to change later, and the tax position should be considered alongside the legal one.
The smaller the business, the less it can absorb a dispute. A short written agreement covering payment, delivery, liability and termination is usually enough, and is a great deal better than reconstructing terms from a chain of messages.
Yes. See business registration for company, LLP and firm formation, and tax and GST for income-tax and GST work. Both are coordinated with the documentation so that the agreements and the filings are consistent with each other.
For most small and medium businesses it means keeping the constitutional documents current, maintaining the registers and resolutions the applicable law requires, filing what has to be filed on time, and ensuring the agreements in use reflect how the business actually operates.
Where the firm works
Lucknow and Uttar Pradesh Coverage
The firm's office is in Lucknow. Matters arising in other districts of Uttar Pradesh are conducted from Lucknow before the court, tribunal or authority that has jurisdiction over them. There is no branch office elsewhere. Which forum will hear a particular matter depends on its subject, its value and where the cause of action arose, and is confirmed before anything is filed.
This page is general information about an area of practice. It is not legal advice, and it is not an advertisement or a solicitation of work. Reading it creates no advocate–client relationship.
Procedures, limitation periods, court fees, stamp duty and government charges change, and what applies depends on the facts of the particular matter. Nothing here should be acted on without advice on your own documents, and no outcome is promised or predicted.
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