Corporate Advisory

Ccorporate advisory revolves around providing advises in relation to contracts, financial decisions, legal requirements to run any business. It enables the clients to make better and informed decisions about how they carry operations and transactions in a corporate environment. The firm has provided corporate advisory to clients specifically keeping the business objectives in mind. Such work involves advisory in the context of legislations, contractual obligations, assisting in taking decisions having legal implications. It enables the clients to make better and informed decisions about how they carry operations and transactions in a corporate environment

AMA as a firm since inception and Anant Merathia, Founding Partner has personally specialized in this practice for years now. Following are a few work highlights:

  • Advised several clients across multiple sectors on contractual agreements ranging from term sheets, investment documents (shareholders/share subscription/share purchase agreements), joint ventures, employment contracts, business finance facilitation agreements.
  • Advised clients on contract review and management of all contracts with vendors, clients, employees, lease contracts, intellectual property and technology contracts.
  • Assisted clients in summarizing voluminous contract clauses and highlighting specific concern and exposure areas; eventually assisting in renegotiating the contracts to reduce such exposures.
  • Advised clients in marketing, design, fashion and social media space on franchise, branding, marketing, non-disclosure, non-compete, IP protection agreements, employee, licensing contracts.
  • Advised clients in Information Technology Sector and Start-ups space on corporate contractual documents - information technology related contracts, consultancy service agreements, software development agreements intellectual property agreements - assignment, licensing & protection agreements; technical and financial collaboration
  • The firm has advised multiple businesses across India of issues relating to “Force Majeure” during the COVID pandemic and the matters involved exhaustive review of agreements, intense negotiations and drawing out revised contracts based on understanding arrived between the parties.
  • The “Force Majeure” advisory provided by the firm ranged from commercial leases, advising both landlords and tenants, exporters, importers, letter of credit issues, franchisee disputes, partial performance issues in the IT sector and various other sectors; financial repayment obligations towards financial institutions and many more.