Overview
Almost every business dispute we see was decided years earlier — at drafting. Vague payment terms, no exit clause, missing jurisdiction and arbitration provisions, unlimited liability, IP ownership never addressed: each one is cheap to fix in the draft and ruinous to litigate later. We draft and review the agreements a growing business actually runs on — service agreements, vendor and supply contracts, NDAs, employment and consultant agreements, franchise and distribution deals — in plain language, with the failure modes (non-payment, non-performance, exit) engineered in advance.
Key Provisions — Indian Contract Act, 1872
- Payment terms with dates, interest on delay, and suspension rights — the clause that decides most SME disputes.
- Termination and exit: notice, cure periods, and what happens to work-in-progress, data, and dues on exit.
- Dispute resolution: jurisdiction, governing law, and arbitration clauses that keep fights fast and local.
- Liability caps, indemnities, IP ownership, and confidentiality — the clauses businesses discover too late.
What You Can Get
How We Handle It
Understand the Deal
What you're actually agreeing to do, get paid for, and fear going wrong.
Draft / Review
A clean draft — or a marked-up review of theirs with every risk flagged.
Negotiate
We support the back-and-forth so the final version protects you.
Execute
Signed properly — with stamping and eSign handled where needed.
Frequently Asked Questions
We've worked on WhatsApp messages and invoices for years — do we really need contracts?
Messages and invoices ARE contracts — just terrible ones, silent on everything that matters when a dispute starts. Formalising your top relationships is the highest-ROI legal spend an SME makes.
The other side sent their standard contract — can't I just sign it?
Their standard contract protects them. A review typically finds 3–6 terms worth pushing back on — and most counterparties accept reasonable changes when asked before signing.
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