Utpal Kant Email & Phone Number

New Delhi Area, India

Sequitur Advocates & Legal Consultants is a full-service law firm based in Delhi that specialises in providing growth-oriented legal services to start-ups, founders, Venture Capital Funds (VCs), Angels, and High Net Individuals (HNIs). We take pride in working with a growth-oriented approach, committed to understanding your business requirements, goals, and objectives in-depth and providing customised solutions. We curate efficient and innovative tailor-made legal solutions by integrating our legal acumen with sector-specific knowledge to ensure growth for you and your business. Our legal solutions are focused on helping founders raise investments enabling fast growth of their business and facilitating VCs to secure their investments. We specialise in negotiating and drafting Term Sheets, Shareholders’ Agreements, Share Purchase Agreements, ESOP, Founders’ Agreements, and Employment Agreements, keeping in mind and balancing both investors’ and founders’ interests while negotiating these agreements. We also cater to the day-to-day requirements of startups which includes drafting and reviewing all the Agreements, employment agreements, ESOPs, NDAs, and MOUs, among others.

Regularly advise on investments in start-ups and transactions involving Seed Funding and Series A Funding. The work stream includes: - Providing regular assistance in negotiation, review, and drafting of the term sheet and subscription-cum-shareholder agreements.- General advisory on corporate matters like issues relating to the Companies Act, 2013 and Exchange Control Laws.

Pune Area, India

Advised extensively on:- Raising Series A Funding led by 37.37 North Capital.- Debt funding for business operations and expansion through banks and HNIs.- Drafted and reviewed loan agreements and commercial negotiations.- Contractual disputes and setting up of new properties in various cities in India.- Issues pertaining to Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Foreign Security) Regulations, 2004, and Companies Act, 2013.- Issues regarding termination of employment of key company staff.

New Delhi Area, India

Regularly advised BlueSky Capital Partners, a US-based venture capital fund on legal issues pertaining to funding of start-ups based in India including on multiple transactions involving Seed Funding, Series A and Series B Funding.

New Delhi Area, India

- Extensively advised domestic and international clients on direct taxation matters, including interpretation of international tax treaties and worked on advisory mandates.- Advised clients on matters of acquisitions, divestments, corporate and business structuring, mergers (including cross-border mergers), demergers, income repatriation strategy, share buy-back, etc.- Advised on exchange control regulations, international taxation, tax treaties and transfer pricing, including permanent establishment (“**PE**”) exposure, tax withholding issues, expatriate taxation, and dispute resolution issues.- Represented clients in various fora including the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Competition Appellate Tribunal, Airports Economic Regulatory Authority Appellate Tribunal, State Consumer Forums, NCLT, NCLAT, NCDRC, NGT, High Courts and the Supreme Court of India.- Advised multiple individuals and corporates on the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015.

New Delhi Area, India

Provided litigation support to various clients by representing them before the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, High Court, and Supreme Court in various tax and corporate-related disputes.

New Delhi Area, India

Provided litigation support to various clients by representing them before the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, High Court, and Supreme Court in various tax and corporate-related disputes.