Overview
The legal practice advises a Japanese company's Indian subsidiary on industrial land, the contracts it signs, company law and labour law, and supports it through disputes and litigation before Indian courts. The firm's Japan desk takes head office through the advice in Japanese.
What we do
Industrial land
Advice on acquiring industrial land, and a legal check of the land before the subsidiary commits to it.
- Liaison with state and central government on the acquisition
- Legal land due diligence and title search
- A check for charges, claims and restrictions passing with the land
- Review of the acquisition documents before they are signed
Contracts and corporate law
Advice on the contracts a subsidiary signs, and on what Indian company law asks of its board and shareholders.
- Corporate and commercial contracts, drafted or reviewed before they are signed
- A single contract review, as a one-off request
- Which decisions belong to the board and which to the shareholders
- Directors' duties, explained for directors in Japan as well as India
Labour law and POSH
The law that governs the subsidiary's people, advised on and kept to as the company grows.
- Advice on the subsidiary's duties as an employer under Indian labour law
- Labour law questions as they arise, from hiring to an employee's departure
- Compliance kept in step as the law and the company change
- What the POSH Act on workplace sexual harassment asks of the subsidiary
Intellectual property rights
Advice and support on the subsidiary's intellectual property rights (IPR) in India.
- Copyright
- Trademarks
- Patents
Disputes and litigation
Where advice alone will not settle a matter, support through disputes and litigation before Indian courts.
- Early advice on where the subsidiary stands and what its options are
- Gathering the facts and documents the subsidiary's position rests on
- Progress on the matter reported to head office by the Japan desk
The practices it works with
- 01India entryLand and the company's structure are first settled at entry, with India entry's legal support.
- 03RegulatoryRegistrations, approvals and secretarial work sit with Regulatory, and one legal and regulatory group covers both.
- 05HR and payrollLabour law and POSH advice concerns the same people as HR policies and payroll.
Next step
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