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Startup India Policy - Update One

Government of India in continuation to the Startup Initiative (read here on announcements to date), as a part of the 19 points Action Plan to empower startups to grow through innovation and design, has now issued a notification dated 17

By Sharda Balaji over 7 years ago
Startup India - announcements of many initiatives

Action Plan on Startup India: A Brief Overview Startup India Action Plan (“Action Plan”), launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 16 January 2016, is part of a flagship initiative of the Government of India for boosting the startup ecosystem

By Sharda Balaji over 7 years ago
Webinar on Goods and Service Tax (GST) on 8th January 2016

Join us for a webinar on Goods and Service Tax (GST) on 8th January at 2pm with Mr. Pritam Mahure, Chartered Accountant, Indirect Tax and GST Professional. Our one and a half hour discussion aims to: Provide an overview of

By Sharda Balaji almost 8 years ago
NovoJuris continues to be India's best!

Thank you for your continued patronage, we continue to retain our leadership position as best legal counsellors in private equity. Source: VCCEdge

By Sharda Balaji almost 8 years ago
Bankruptcy Bill, 2015

The Government introduced the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Bill, 2015 in Parliament on Monday (21/12/15). The current bankruptcy code in India and contains archaic laws and is spread out over multiple legislations. Due to this, India was ranked as the 136th

By Sharda Balaji almost 8 years ago
Publicity Rights in India: Room for Speculation in the Law?

A cartoonist of a well known national daily newspaper sketched a character describing the acting skills of the modern day actresses in Bollywood. One of the popular Bollywood actress found the featured images to be identical with her and got

By Sharda Balaji almost 8 years ago
The Severance Story in Startups

Most start-ups have disruptive businesses / business models and in the course of scaling business, teams are ramped up. There is an all-round good news of amazing startup ideas, cheer of unicorns, and funding frenzy. We also hear of a

By Sharda Balaji almost 8 years ago
Raising of Funds Through Compulsorily Convertible Debentures

Raising of funds by issuance of Compulsorily Convertible Debentures (“CCD”), also known as convertible notes in common parlance, is one of the ways that start-ups can raise money during the early stages of investments and bridge round investments. Primarily because

By Sharda Balaji almost 8 years ago
KBase - The NovoJuris Quarterly, June 2015

KBase - The NovoJuris Quarterly, June 2015 Making Your Money Work For You If you have raised private equity, it usually is for executing the plan over a period of 12 to 18 months, unless the fund raise is to

By Sharda Balaji over 8 years ago
Packaged Goods: Do Labels Tell The Truth?

In the fast paced world we consume a wide range of packaged goods. Some brands we consume based on trust built on the brand rather than checking the labels. Even for being an “informed customer”, the labels don’t provide all

By Sharda Balaji over 8 years ago
Board Member Copying and Executing Your Plan?

Here’s an ugly side of having a strategic investor on board, which we would like to believe is perhaps just a random, one-off case. A strategic investor and a board member hears to the whole plan and then executes and

By Sharda Balaji over 8 years ago
Making Your Money Work For You

If you have raised private equity, it usually is for executing the plan over a period of 12 to 18 months, unless the fund raise is to acquire another entity/business. While deployment is over a period of time, where would

By Sharda Balaji over 8 years ago