Overview
Every business relationship deserves its document before the honeymoon ends: partnership deeds that fix capital, profit shares, drawings, and exit; founder/shareholder agreements covering vesting, roles, deadlock, and what happens when someone leaves; NDAs that are actually enforceable (scoped, time-bound, with real remedies); MOUs drafted deliberately as binding or non-binding — not the accidental half-contracts that spawn litigation; and vendor, service, distribution, and consultant agreements with payment and exit engineered. Drafted at formation, these cost a fraction of the disputes they prevent — a lesson our partnership-disputes page teaches the expensive way.
Key Provisions — Indian Contract Act + Partnership Act + LLP Act, 1872 / 1932 / 2008
- Partnership deeds: capital, profit ratios, drawings, duties, admission/retirement, and dissolution mechanics — the Act's defaults apply to whatever you leave out.
- Founder agreements: equity vesting with cliffs, IP assignment to the entity, roles, and exit/buyback — the startup-killer gaps closed.
- MOUs are binding or not based on their language, not their title — we make the intent explicit either way.
- NDAs need defined confidential information, carve-outs, term, and remedies; overbroad ones fail exactly when needed.
What You Can Get
How We Handle It
Relationship Mapping
Who contributes what, who owns what, who decides what, who exits how.
Draft
The agreement in plain language — every hard conversation had on paper now.
Review Rounds
All parties' comments negotiated to a fair final.
Execute & Register
Stamped, signed (eSign supported), and registered where required.
Frequently Asked Questions
We're three friends starting up — do we really need paperwork between US?
Especially between friends. The founder agreement is written precisely because you can't imagine the fight — vesting, IP, and exit terms decided now cost nothing; decided during a fallout they cost the company.
Is an MOU legally binding?
It depends entirely on what it says — payment terms and obligations make it a contract regardless of the 'MOU' label. We draft yours to be clearly binding or clearly not, so nobody discovers the answer in court.
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