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Legal and regulatory advice.
Through HST Assure Advisors, I advise on corporate and regulatory matters, agreements, fraud risk and data privacy, bringing legal and financial expertise to the same problem.
01 — Practice areas
Five areas. One partner.
01Corporate & Regulatory Strategy
From M&A and restructuring to regulatory licensing, we structure deals and entities so the legal and tax position is clear.
M&A & Transaction Advisory
Integrated due diligence including quality of earnings, deal structuring across share purchase, asset purchase and slump sale, tax optimisation, and shareholders’ agreements.
Corporate Restructuring
NCLT-route schemes, demergers and spin-offs, slump sales, fast-track liquidations, capital reduction, buybacks and debt restructuring.
Corporate Advisory
Private placements, rights issues and preferential allotments; significant beneficial owner (SBO) reporting; CSR structuring; directors and KMP advisory.
Financial Regulatory
SEBI intermediaries (RIA, RA, PMS), Alternative Investment Funds, RBI and NBFC licensing, and IRDAI corporate agents and brokers.
Sectoral Advisory
Fintech and digital lending, telecom and space tech, IT/ITeS and SaaS, and RERA for real estate.
IFSC (GIFT City)
Entity setup, IFSCA approvals, family investment funds and fund management entities, tax incentives and fintech sandbox applications.
02Strategic Legal & Dispute Advisory
Well-drafted agreements for founders and boards, and support when a dispute arises.
Founder Dynamics & Equity
Co-founder agreements with vesting, cliffs and good-leaver / bad-leaver clauses; cap-table modelling across funding rounds.
ESOPs & Incentives
Plan design for ESOPs and SARs, grant and administration, exercise pricing, trust formation and taxation.
Shareholders’ Agreements & Governance
Board composition, reserved matters, ROFR / ROFO, lock-ins, tag-along, drag-along and liquidation preferences.
Investment Readiness
Curating a diligence-ready virtual data room and advising on term-sheet negotiation.
Commercial Contracts
MSAs, SLAs and vendor contracts with indemnity caps, performance safeguards and exit rights that prevent lock-in.
Disputes, Arbitration & Mediation
High-stakes support that bridges financial reality and legal argument.
03Fraud & Integrity Risk
A look at how fraud actually happens, and controls designed to catch it.
Enterprise Fraud Risk Management
Fraud risk assessment workshops across procurement-to-pay, order-to-cash and payroll; control gap analysis; anti-bribery and corruption frameworks.
Process Vulnerability Studies
Vendor and third-party risk, inventory and supply-chain leakage, and revenue leakage reviews.
Ethics & Whistleblower Mechanisms
Whistleblower policy and code design, and triage SOPs for board and committee oversight.
04Data Privacy, Technology & IPR
Privacy compliance built into products and processes, and protection for intellectual property.
DPDP Act & GDPR Implementation
Data mapping and RoPA, privacy notices and consent, and a gap analysis against the law.
Virtual DPO & Governance
Outsourced privacy leadership, vendor risk and data processing agreements, and breach-response protocols.
Product Counsel
DPIAs for high-risk technologies such as AI and biometrics, and cross-border transfer mechanisms.
IP Strategy
Trademark and copyright portfolios, licensing, assignment, SaaS licensing and technology-transfer agreements.
05Global Delivery
Cross-border support for enterprises entering, operating in or moving capital across jurisdictions.
Cross-border Investment
FEMA and company-law structuring for inbound and outbound investment.
Global Privacy Programmes
Alignment across GDPR, DPDP, PDPA and HIPAA for multi-jurisdiction operations.
02 — Engagement models
How we can work together.
Virtual General Counsel
Ongoing retainer support for founders and leadership on regulatory, corporate, contracting, privacy and governance decisions.
Transaction & Deal Support
Time-bound support across M&A, investments, restructurings and strategic transactions.
Strategic Regulatory Opinions
A defined question answered with a written opinion, options analysis and defensible reasoning.
Drafting & Negotiation
Focused support for commercial contracts and strategic documentation.
Programme Build-Out
Setting up privacy programmes, policies, internal processes and templates.
03 — Approach
How we work.
Partner-led
Every engagement has a responsible partner who reviews and signs off the work.
Written reasoning
Reasoning and drafts are documented and version-controlled.
Options and a recommendation
The legal and commercial risks weighed, with a clear recommended position.
Clear scope
Scope, timelines and checkpoints defined upfront to reduce friction.
Commercially workable
Legal positions turned into outcomes the business can use.
Specialists we work with
HST Assure Advisors brings in these specialists when an engagement needs them.
- Company Secretaries
- Lawyers
- Valuation Experts
- Forensic Accountants