Whether you're signing your first big contract or heading into a funding round Jordensky coordinates the structuring, agreements, IP and contracts your business needs, through qualified legal partners.
Founder agreements. Clean IP. Contracts that actually protect you. No last-minute scramble.
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A missing founder agreement. Code your contractor technically still owns. A contract that never covered what happens when the customer doesn't pay. None of these hurt on the day you skip them. They hurt years later, when an investor's lawyers go looking and find the gap at the worst possible moment.
Jordensky builds the legal foundations that stop this happening. Not courtroom lawyering the preventive work that keeps a growing business clean: the right structure, signed founder agreements, IP you actually own, contracts that hold, and compliance that doesn't pile up.
Legal advice and drafting come from qualified advocates and company secretaries. We coordinate all of it so you get one managed legal function instead of four disconnected lawyers you have to chase yourself.
Legal risk grows with the business. The documents that looked optional at the start become the records every investor, partner and regulator expects to find.
One founder and a few customers carries little legal risk. Add co-founders, employees, investors and IP, and the obligations stack and they interact. A missing contractor IP assignment from year one can stall a funding round in year three.
Raise money or sell, and the other side runs legal diligence cap table, founder agreements, IP, contracts, compliance. Gaps don't just add risk. They lower your valuation, delay the deal, or kill it.
Board meetings, annual returns, registers, event-based filings. None hard on their own. But neglect them for two years and you're facing penalties, director risk, and a compliance record every future investor will read.
Most legal problems in growing businesses are predictable which means preventable. These are the ones we fix again and again:
One coordinated legal function, delivered through qualified partners. Five areas cover what a growing business actually needs.
Business StructuringYour entity type, constitutional documents and ownership structure decide how easily you can raise money, add partners, or sell later. Chosen for speed at incorporation, they often turn out wrong for what comes next and fixing structure later is disruptive, sometimes taxable, always costlier than getting it right once.
Good structuring is invisible until it's missing when a round stalls over something fixable, or an exit is discounted because the ownership history is a mess. We build it to hold.
Founder AgreementsMost founders sort out a founder agreement "when there's time." Then a co-founder leaves, there's no vesting, and they walk with a stake that makes the company impossible to fund. It's the most common preventable reason startups fail and it's a document you sign in an afternoon.
Sign it at the start, while everyone's aligned and no one's leaving. The worst time to need a founder agreement is when the person it binds has every reason not to sign.
Intellectual PropertyFor most tech and consumer businesses, IP is the company. And it's the thing founders most often assume they own but don't because code, designs or product built by contractors, or built before incorporation, legally stays with the individual until it's assigned. An investor's lawyers ask for the ownership chain first. Broken chains reprice deals.
Protecting your IP properly isn't a formality. It's protecting the asset the whole business runs on and making sure it's investor-ready before it's tested, not after.
Fundraising SupportFundraising is where every legal weakness surfaces at once. Investors' lawyers examine structure, cap table, agreements, IP and compliance and every gap becomes leverage to cut your valuation or stall the deal. The businesses that raise well prepared for this months ago.
Because Jordensky sits across finance and legal, your model, data room and diligence responses move together with the term sheet and definitive docs instead of two sets of advisors who never talk.
Commercial ContractsLitigation here takes years, which makes the contract itself your main line of defence. Yet most growing businesses run on the customer's standard terms, an old template, or a handshake. When a customer won't pay or a vendor fails to deliver, that's when they find out the contract never had their back.
Good contracts prevent disputes rather than win them. Clear terms mean both sides know where they stand which is what keeps most relationships from breaking in the first place.
structuring for investment, founder agreements, IP for code and product, fundraising docs. Legal foundations tied directly to fundability.
trademark protection, marketplace and supplier contracts, consumer terms. Your brand is the asset.
clean copyright in the codebase, customer agreements covering data and liability, contractor IP assignment.
engagement contracts, scope and liability, partnership agreements, confidentiality frameworks.
supplier and distributor contracts, IP for products and processes, structuring for growth and succession.
FDI structuring, FEMA and RBI compliance, cross-border contracts and reporting.
Most legal problems have a financial side, and most financial decisions have legal consequences. We handle both as one connected function not disconnected advisors who never speak.
Advice and drafting come from qualified advocates and company secretaries. We coordinate the work, keep compliance current, and make sure nothing falls between them so you're not project-managing a panel of lawyers.
We know what diligence looks for. So we build foundations that pass it clean cap tables, proper agreements, documented IP, complete compliance.
Company law, FDI, IP registration, contract enforcement built around how the Indian system actually works, state-level variation and all.
A clear path from "we probably have gaps" to "we're covered."
We understand the business and its plans, then review what exists structure, agreements, IP, contracts, compliance. Most reviews surface gaps founders didn't know about.
Not everything needs fixing at once. We separate urgent (unsigned founder agreement, broken IP chain, imminent raise) from what can follow.
A clear plan what gets done, in what order, and which qualified partners handle each piece. No open-ended engagement.
Structuring, drafting, registration and filing handled by qualified advocates and company secretaries, coordinated by us so nothing drops.
Compliance calendar kept current, new contracts handled as they come, business kept investor-ready as it grows.
New funding, new markets, new complexity we keep the foundations aligned with where the business actually is.
Most founders aren't until diligence finds them. A legal foundations review shows you what's missing before it costs you leverage.
dedicated financial leadership for better decisions.
Get CFO supportmodels, data rooms and diligence, managed alongside the legal side.
Raise with confidenceaccounting, tax, MIS and compliance through one team.
See what's includedExplore the legal foundations, founder, fundraising and contract questions growing businesses ask most.
Advice, opinions, drafting and representation come from qualified advocates and company secretaries. Jordensky coordinates it all the partners, the documentation, the compliance so you get a complete managed legal function without assembling your own panel of lawyers.
Usually entity structuring, founder agreements, IP protection, solid commercial contracts, fundraising documentation and ongoing compliance. The mix depends on stage and sector, but these are the foundations that matter before and during any raise.
Yes early is best. Correct structuring, a founder agreement, IP assignments and clean contracts are far cheaper to get right at the start than to fix later. Early businesses often need less than they fear, done well.
Yes much of the work is remedial. Missing agreements, broken IP chains, neglected filings, weak contracts. We assess, prioritise by risk, and coordinate the fixes, ideally before diligence exposes them.
A law firm advises on the matters you bring it. Jordensky coordinates a complete legal function qualified partners, live compliance, and the connection to your finances as a managed capability, not a series of separate engagements.
At the very start, while founders are aligned and no one's leaving. It's easy to sign when it's hypothetical and painful when it's not. Delaying it is the most common preventable legal mistake in startups.
A departing co-founder can keep their full equity, which can make you uninvestable. Disputes over roles and equity have no framework, so they escalate. And investors treat its absence as a serious diligence risk.
Founders earn equity over time (typically 4 years, 1-year cliff) instead of owning it all at once. It keeps the cap table fair if someone leaves early, and it protects the founders as much as the investors.
Not automatically. Unlike employee work, contractor IP doesn't transfer without an explicit written assignment. Many businesses find this gap only when an investor asks for the ownership chain. Assignment agreements close it.
For most businesses, yes. In India, trademark rights come mainly from registration, and registering early establishes priority far cheaper than rebranding because someone else claimed your name first.
A term sheet setting the framework, then definitive agreements Shareholders Agreement and amended Articles plus subscription documents and regulatory filings. Foreign investment adds FEMA and RBI reporting. The term sheet matters most; terms given there are hard to claw back.
It's the examination investors run before committing structure, cap table, agreements, IP, compliance. Preparing means clean documentation and gaps fixed before they're found. Prepared businesses move fast; unprepared ones negotiate from weakness.
Yes FEMA and RBI reporting, the automatic-vs-approval FDI distinction, and transfer pricing for related-party transactions. All strict and deadline-bound. Missed reporting complicates future rounds and any exit.
They're coordinated, not separate. Fundraising, structuring and compliance all have a financial and a legal side managed together, so the gaps that appear between disconnected advisors don't.
Because court litigation is slow, the contract is your main tool for managing risk. Good drafting usually decides whether a dispute settles quickly or drags on. Weak contracts leave you exposed exactly when you need protection.
Board meetings, annual returns, statutory registers, director disclosures and event-based filings. Foreign-invested companies add RBI reporting and transfer pricing. None is hard alone, but neglected compliance stacks into penalties and a diligence problem.
It depends on stage and scope. Coordinated foundations cost far less than the problems they prevent one derailed round or founder dispute costs many times more. Scope is agreed upfront, not open-ended.
Often. Many have a lawyer they trust for specific matters but no one coordinating the whole legal function. We work alongside existing counsel rather than replacing relationships that already work.
The legal side of a growing business is cheapest to build early and most expensive to fix late, usually mid-raise, under the worst time pressure. Structuring, founder agreements, IP, contracts, compliance this is what lets you raise, sign and grow without tripping over your own paperwork.
We coordinate all of it, through qualified partners, connected to your finances, built to withstand scrutiny.