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Business Formation

Business Formation

Business formation involves starting and setting up business, incorporation, registration, formation of a company, doing business, starting a IT, BPO & Software company etc. It includes advice on setting & selection of entry vehicle, on holding company regulations, how to set up a Branch office, drawing up of business agreements and contracts and other related areas of...

Information and Due Diligence

Information and Due Diligence

The law firm conduct due diligence with intensive investigation in the matter of land acquisitions,IPR due diligence,business formation Etc. The due diligence ensures smooth business action as the process, methodology, checklist helps to understanding all legal aspects including company status, debt, agreements, employment, property transaction, environmental issues, research in real...

License and Registration

License and Registration

The firm realizes the importance of various issues related to licenses and registration. Numbers of Licenses issued by the governmental agencies under different laws required proper attention understanding. The licenses and registration is the part of business formation as well as business growth and recognition. The firm provide extensive research based services for licensing and...

Government and Public Service

Government and Public Service

It has become a need under globalization of business, people, and transaction to work on this section in depth. It includes various aspects with respect to government facilities, taxation rules regulation, social programs, economic development, and education. The firm provides keen attention to analyze government and public services, its importance as well drawbacks of the...

Transaction

The term transaction means to do something or to transfer some rights and duties to other person, it’s obvious that we all in our day to day life enters in to various types of transaction, transaction may be ether personal or professional. However To enter in to transaction we needs the help of an expert person who will guide us in doing business. While doing business one should know...

Franchisee and Distribution

Franchisee and Distribution

Franchisers, manufacturers and others who use third party relationships as a distribution mechanism nationally or internationally face a myriad of legal issues in pursuing their business goals. Franchise & Distribution Law is the law governing many types of distribution relationships, including business opportunities; seller assisted marketing plans, multi-level marketing plans,...

Joint Venture

A joint venture is a business agreement in which parties agrees to develop, for a finite time, a new entity and new assets by contributing equity. They both exercise control over the enterprises and consequently share revenues, expenses and assets. There are other types of companies such as JV limited by guarantee, joint ventures limited by guarantee with partners holding shares. In a...

Merger and Acquisition

Merger and Acquisition

The phrase mergers and acquisitions refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling and combining of different companies that can aid, finance, or help a growing company in a given industry grow rapidly without having to create another business entity. Although often used synonymously, the terms merger and acquisition mean...

Patent

Patents we refer to a new invention, for which protection is granted to the inventor under the Patents Act. Assistance is provided by the law firm regarding what kind of patents can be protected, who grants patents, who can file an application for a patent, what are the rights available to the patentee, assignment of patents, registration etc. • A Patent gives an inventor the right...

Design

The essential purpose of design law it to promote and protect the design element of industrial production. It is also intended to promote innovative activity in the field of industries. The existing legislation on industrial designs in India is contained in the New Designs Act, 2000 and this Act will serve its purpose well in the rapid changes in technology and international...

Copyright

Copyright Registration in India gives the creators of a wide range of material, such as literature, art, music, sound recordings, films and broadcasts, economic rights enabling them to control use of their material in a number of ways, such as by making copies, issuing copies to the public, performing in public, broadcasting and use on-line. It also gives moral rights to be identified...

Trademark

A Trademark is any sign which can distinguish the goods and services of one trader from those of another. A sign includes words, logos, colours, slogans, three-dimensional shapes and sometimes sounds and gestures. A trademark is therefore a “badge” of trade origin. It is used as a marketing tool so that customers can recognise the product of a particular trader. To be...

Geographical Indication

This is a relatively new area of Intellectual Property Law in India. India is home to many products that are unique to the country. Geographical Indications of Goods are defined as that aspect of industrial property which refer to the geographical indication referring to a country or to a place situated therein as being the country or place of origin of that product. Typically, such a...

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Infringement OF Intellectual property Intellectual property rights refers to a bundle of rights recognized by law to protect a number of distinct types of creation of the mind like inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, names, images and designs used for commercial purposes. Hence an inventor of a machine or technology, an artist who creates paintings, a musician who...

Asset Management

Asset Management

Asset management is the professional management of various securities (shares, bonds and other securities) and assets (e.g., real estate) in order to meet specified investment goals for the benefit of the investors. Investors may be institutions (insurance companies, pension funds, corporations etc.) or private investors (both directly via investment contracts and more commonly via...

Foreign Direct Investment

Foreign Direct Investment

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is now recognized as an important driver of growth in the country. 1. FDI in Energy and Alternative Energy FDI in electric generation, transmission and distribution of electric energy produced in-hydro electric, coal/lignite based thermal, oil based thermal and gas based thermal power plants is allowed to an extent of 100% under the automatic route....

Privatization

Privatization is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency or public service from the public sector (the state or government) to the private sector (businesses that operate for a private profit) or to private non-profit organizations. In a broader sense, privatization refers to transfer of any government function to the private sector –...

Technology transfer

Technology transfer

Technology transfer is the process of skill transferring, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing and facilities among governments and other institutions to ensure that scientific and technological developments are accessible to a wider range of users who can then further develop and exploit the technology into new products, processes, applications,...

Contract

The term contract is an agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights. In simple words contract is dealing between two persons to do or not to do some kind of act for the...

Consumer Rights

Consumer Rights

Consumers are defined as an individual who purchase, use, maintain, and dispose of products and services. Consumers are users of the product. Consumer is the buyer who buys the goods or any product for his own purpose from the seller for the price or it may be in other way. Consumer laws are the laws are enacted to protect the right of the consumer and imposed preventative measures...

Bankruptcy

Country like India with increasing the economy level day by day people are struggling with debts is, sadly, not as uncommon as one would like to hear. Too many people find themselves over burdened where they are not in position to pay off their debts, which has been accrued to theme. Under such situation advice of expertise is required to an individual. ...

Liquidation

The term liquidation is winding up of a company. It is defined under (Indian companies act 1956). The process whereby life of the company is ended and its property is administered for the benefit of its creditors and members. It is quite obvious that once the company is started by the members or individual for the particular purpose. Thane after certain period of times it needs to be...

Trade Regulation

ASTREA LEGAL SERVISE ON TRADE REGULATION: Trade regulation including, sate trade policy, bilateral trade policy, code of conducts for different types of industry, international trade, free trade,government regulation of unfair methods or deceptive business acts or practices. Our role is to give utmost important to precautionary measure in clients matters involving regulatory...

Unfair Competition

Fairness and level playing fields for all the participants in the markets are absolutely essential for its sustainability and development. When there is perfect competition in the market, the consumer is sovereign, as his welfare is maximised. However, in reality the markets are imperfect and the invisible hands in the Adam Smith’s theory not always favours the consumer’s interest....

Custom Laws

Custom laws in India are govern by the CBEC.customs Duty is a type of indirect tax levied on goods imported into India as well as on goods exported from India. Taxable event is import into or export from India. Import of goods means bringing into India of goods from a place outside India. India includes the territorial waters of India which extend upto 12 nautical miles into the sea to...