India's most trusted corporate & employment law specialists: We Care!
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We are a boutique corporate & employment law firm serving as strategic partners to businesses by helping them navigate transactions, fundraising-investor readiness, operational contracts, workforce management, data privacy and disputes. We keep our clients future ready by ensuring compliance with the upcoming Indian Labour codes on Wages, Industrial Relations, Social Security, Occupational Safety, Health, and Working Conditions – and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. With offices across India including Delhi, Mumbai and Gurgaon coupled with global partnerships with international law firms in Dubai, Singapore, United Kingdom and USA, we are the preferred law firm for India entry and international business setups.
What Makes Us Unique? – We Care! We act as business catalysts by helping our clients establish, grow and scale in a cost-efficient manner by reducing legal risks through compliant processes and documentation. We help our clients in achieving an ecosystem where they can focus on growth whilst we handle all things operations! We understand that our advice is acted upon by business teams and we are committed to simplifying legal solutions through thoughtful and actionable guidance. We provide industry-specific solutions that align with unique business needs of our corporate clients across various sectors including IT/ITES, FMCG/CPG, E-commerce, FinTech, EdTech, Healthcare, Banking, Aviation, Construction and Real Estate.
Why Corporates Prefer Working With Us? We provide specialised and end-to-end corporate & employment law solutions, thereby eliminating the need for multiple law firm-engagement. We are actively working on transactional drafting & advisory, operational & employment-related contracts, POSH, HR & data privacy-related compliances and audits, India-entry strategy & incorporation, statutory and labour law-related licenses and registrations, and we defend our clients before all Indian courts to ensure seamless operations.
Our cohesive team of lawyers headed by our Founder & Managing Partner, Mr. Pushkar Thakur helps organizations create respectful, inclusive, and legally compliant workplaces by providing services ranging from regulatory audits and grievance redressal mechanisms to workforce restructuring. Please visit our LinkedIn page for information beyond this website.
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Corporate Law Expertise: Our practice group is well versed in advising businesses on entity formation, India-entry strategy, company and contract law compliance, mergers and acquisitions, joint arrangements, private equity transactions, and corporate governance. Our specialist lawyers handle drafting, reviewing and negotiation of commercial and technology-based agreements including SaaS, software licensing, and shareholder agreements. We also provide regulatory compliance advice and conduct statutory filings, and assist with dispute resolution including litigation and arbitration to ensure seamless business operations and strong risk management. We are the preferred law firm for startups as we serve as strategic partners helping startups with fundraising strategies, compliance with relevant financial regulations, pitch deck vetting and legal documentation thereby ensuring investor readiness while also optimizing their growth potential to ensure they have the best chance to secure funding and build long lasting relationships with investors.
Employment Law Expertise: Our employment law expertise covers the full spectrum of workforce management, documentation, compliances, audits and investigations. We ensure that clients including those from heavily regulated industries are able to run their operations in a legally compliant manner that is demonstrable at the time of audits and inspections. We are leading the industry in ensuring compliances with the upcoming Code on Wages, Code on Social Security, Industrial Relations Code and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code of India. Our work spans from drafting of employment contracts, HR policies, personal information related documentation to POSH trainings and investigations, handling HR disputes and giving advice on layoffs, retrenchments, and ESOP structuring. We support compliance for gig workers, expats and cross-border employment with a seamless integration of global workforce. We help organizations create respectful, inclusive, and legally compliant workplaces by providing services ranging from regulatory audits and grievance redressal mechanisms to workforce restructuring.
Mr. Pushkar Thakur
Corrida legal - corporate & employment law firm
Founder & Managing Partner
Pushkar is a corporate & employment law specialist representing a gamut of approximately 300 companies in matters pertaining to transactions, operational contracts, workforce management & restructuring and disputes. He brings in close to 15 years of experience having led the legal teams at Fortune 500s and top law firms, such as Nomura, Emaar and Kochhar & Co. His primary clientele comprises of MNCs and FMCG/Tech/FinTech/E-commerce players, and he spearheads strategies for setting up shop in India and becoming a viable growth & investment opportunity in a future-safe manner. Pushkar’s daily routine involves advising clients across IT/ITES, FMCG/CPG, E-commerce, FinTech, EdTech, Healthcare, Banking, Aviation, Construction and Real Estate industry on their incorporation & structuring, India-entry, operations & compliances, growth strategy (organic and acquisition-led) including PE/VC investments, acquisitions & strategic buyouts, data privacy compliance & employment-related issues. His advice covers the contours of international entity requirements apropos policies & procedures and he helps homologate international contracts & policies.
Pushkar brings a blend of law firm and in-house perspective with a nuanced understanding of the business and regulatory environment. He has forsaken the role of a traditional lawyer by partnering with his clients on investor readiness, business setup and fund-raising whilst keeping operations, workforce and data privacy practices legally compliant. Having led the Employment & GDPR-PDPA compliant processes at leading MNCs, he brings a nuanced perspective on employment, data protection and privacy. Pushkar aims to deliver effective and efficient legal services that meet the needs and business-related expectations of his clients. Litigation is one of his core expertise areas and this helps him draft transactional documents whilst knowing how they will be interpreted before a court of law. Pushkar has advised clients across a series of civil, commercial, and criminal matters with a focus on white-collar crimes, recoveries, contract breaches, consumer and real estate disputes. As an arguing counsel before various Courts at Mumbai and Delhi NCR, he has represented corporates including International Air Transport Association, EMC (now Dell), Lumata Digital, RaeBareilly Allahabad Highway Private Limited and a consortium of more than fifty international airline companies including Lufthansa airlines, British Airways and United Airlines in matters including civil recoveries & white-collar crimes.
Reach out to Pushkar Thakur at: pushkar.thakur@corridalegal.com/+91-9211410147.
Nation-wide presence & International alliances
Corrida Legal operates offices in Gurgaon, New Delhi and Mumbai, India, which enables it to handle legal cases across India. Located in India and having strategic partnerships with international law firms in Dubai, Singapore and USA among other prominent global locations, Corrida Legal leads India-entry of international companies and international incorporation along with compliances from pin to piano. The law firm is equipped with specialised in-house specialist lawyers who provide the benefit of single-window corporate and employment law compliance solutions.
We have extensive experience of advising Fortune 500s and start-ups alike on complex corporate law and employment-related issues. We engage with the business, understand their needs, inhibitions and ambitions in order to provide the most beneficial advice within the contours of law.
We are a boutique corporate & employment law firm acting as business catalysts by helping our clients establish and scale in a cost-efficient manner by reducing legal risks through compliant processes and documentation. We help our clients in achieving an ecosystem where they can focus on growth whilst we handle all things operations! The lawyers at Corrida Legal eliminate the need for multiple law firm engagement by combining deep expertise in the field of corporate and employment laws with decades of experience in advising businesses to provide single umbrella legal solutions.
What We Stand For
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Team Intro Corrida Legal
Associate
Srijan Jeevesh Jha
Srijan Jha (Associate): I am currently working as an associate at Corrida Legal. I have graduated with a BBA LL.B.(H) with a specialisation in corporate law and have worked for over two years in diverse fields of law, which has enabled me to develop both legal and practical insights into the profession. In my present position at Corrida Legal, I actively work on mandates with corporations and individuals, assisting them with navigating the complexities of corporate and labour law requirements through documentation and strategising methodologies that enable best risk mitigation practices.
Associate
Aamna Munaima
As part of Corrida Legal, I primarily handle matters relating to HR compliance, employment disputes, workplace investigations, and general compliance under employment and labour laws. I have pursued B.B.A., LL.B. from NLU, Patna, with a specialization in Corporate Law. After the implementation of the 4 Labour Codes, we are at a strategic pivot in employment law because although the central laws are enforced, we still await the corresponding state-level rules.
External Counsel (Pune):
Kartavya Ostwal
As part of Corrida Legal, I primarily work on matters relating to RERA, Redevlopment, corporate law, employment & labour laws, regulatory compliance, contract drafting, legal research and legal advisory. Alongside advisory and litigation support, I am actively involved in analysing, reviewing and publishing legal articles on contemporary legal issues. My work focuses on simplifying complex legal concepts and presenting practical legal insights in a structured and accessible manner. I believe effective legal analysis requires understanding not only the law as written, but also its practical implementation across industries and real-world situations. At Corrida Legal, our objective is to provide legally accurate, practical and relevant legal content that helps individuals and businesses better understand evolving legal and regulatory developments.
External Counsel (Mumbai)
Yash Vyas
Yash supports Corrida Legal as external counsel on litigation, criminal-law issues, court-facing strategy, POSH-related criminal consequences, dispute support and matters requiring local legal representation in Mumbai and surrounding jurisdictions. As external counsel to Corrida Legal, Yash contributes to matters where litigation experience, criminal-law perspective and local court support are relevant to the client’s legal strategy.
External counsel, (Delhi NCR)
Shreshth Jain
Shreshth Jain is a Delhi-based advocate with more than nine years of experience in litigation, commercial law, MSME matters, real estate, intellectual property, debt recovery, consumer law and business advisory. As external counsel to Corrida Legal, Shreshth contributes to matters where litigation experience, recovery strategy, real estate and IPR support, MSME disputes and local court representation are relevant to the client’s legal
External Counsel and Advocate on Record, Supreme Court)
Amrita Sarkar
Amrita Sarkar is an Advocate-on-Record at the Supreme Court of India with more than 10 years of experience in dispute resolution, arbitration, insolvency and bankruptcy, corporate disputes and Supreme Court practice. As external counsel to Corrida Legal, Amrita supports matters requiring Supreme Court practice, arbitration strategy, insolvency expertise, corporate-dispute advisory, appellate litigation support and court-facing legal strategy.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions businesses ask us
What kind of law firm is Corrida Legal?
Corrida Legal is a corporate and employment law firm which has its head office in Gurgaon along with other offices in Maharashtra and Karnataka.
The firm works with companies and individuals, assisting them with complex issues and documents arising out of the aforementioned fields. The firm provides services pertaining to the drafting and reviewing of contracts, the preparation of opinions on corporate and HR issues, assisting with regulatory communications, compliance with data privacy, the serving of legal notices, and preparing dispute-prevention strategies.
What are Corrida Legal’s core principles?
Corrida Legal’s core principles focus on accuracy, clarity, and practicality. This is further substantiated by the firm’s key focus on the preparation of documents which are backed by evidence and management-ready.
The firm’s actions are based on key documents such as contracts, policies, communications, and any other communication records and play a vital role at the time of drafting or preparing any document to ensure risk mitigation.
Who are the primary clients of Corrida Legal?
Corrida Legal advises founders, startups, Indian organisations, foreign businesses, Global Capability Centres, HR teams, technology companies, e-commerce businesses and management teams.
Corrida Legal provides services based on the scope of work which has been decided upon between the firm and the client. Common request by organisations includes conducting a review of legal documents and providing legal opinions. Corrida Legal ensures that each service is specifically catered to the type of client to ensure risk mitigation.
What makes Corrida Legal’s employment-law work practical?
Corrida Legal ensures that each and every service provided by the firm to its clients is practical in nature. The services provide recommended actions which can be directly implemented by the client. Corrida Legal provides services such as providing employee salary restructuring, drafting employee communications, and drafting pre-execution documents.
What makes Corrida Legal’s corporate law work practical?
Corrida Legal ensures that its services with respect to corporate law are business-driven whilst also ensuring that the organisation is legally compliant. An example of Corrida Legal’s services is contract review, wherein it focuses not only on structure, approvals, conditions, warranties, closing actions and post-closing obligations of a contract but also on how each aspect will impact the day-to-day operations of its clients.
The mechanism of reviewing documents from an operational perspective is especially useful in investment, acquisition, share transfer, commercial contracting and India-entry matters where signing alone is not enough and businesses are required to review how each aspect affects their present and future actions.
Does Corrida Legal work as external counsel, and what are the engagement models offered by Corrida Legal?
Yes. Corrida Legal offers its services in two models: project-based and retainer-based. In our experience, the retainer-based model is more beneficial for start-ups or growing organisations wherein there is a requirement for assistance with their daily operations. In the retainer-based model, Corrida Legal acts as the external counsel for its clients and provides recurring legal support.
This can include contract review, employment advisory, policies, legal notices, compliance support, negotiations and internal legal strategy. This method also allows organisations that are in the process of setting up their operations to appoint a team of expert advocates without the cost of building a full internal legal team.
Does Corrida Legal advise on both corporate and employment law together?
Yes. Corrida Legal understands that an organisation often requires a review of its operations and documents. This approach combines corporate and employment law, wherein Corrida Legal has its expertise. Corrida Legal provides services in both corporate and employment law, ensuring that actions undertaken in each respective field are compliant and in sync with one another.
Therefore, appointing Corrida Legal for both corporate and employment law is highly effective because business contracts, employees, consultants, vendors, data privacy, intellectual property and compliance are usually connected in actual company operations.
Does Corrida Legal support companies in disputes?
Yes. Corrida Legal comprises a team of expert advocates who advise and provide support to organisations and individuals in pre-dispute strategy, legal notices, recovery notices, court or arbitration linked documentation and representation before authorities where required.
The firm’s first step is usually to build the record of all documentation to substantiate its clients’ cases before escalation. Corrida Legal has partnered with capable advocates nationwide who have expertise in disputes arising out of corporate and employment laws, ensuring that Corrida Legal is able to assist its clients irrespective of the jurisdiction of the dispute.
Where does Corrida Legal have its offices, and does it offer services to organisations that are located in cities where it does not have an office?
Corrida Legal has its offices in Gurugram, New Delhi, Pune and Mumbai. While the firm’s branch offices are in a few other cities, it offers services to organisations nationwide, irrespective of whether it has an office in that city.
Corrida Legal achieves this by providing services virtually and by having several local counsel on its payroll in order to ensure that the relevant actions which mandate physical presence are managed in the respective cities.
Why should organisations choose Corrida Legal for ongoing support?
Organisations choose Corrida Legal for ongoing support as the firm offers not only legal advice, but also, based on its years of experience in diverse industries, provides assistance that ensures the streamlining of the operational aspects of the business. Corrida Legal further ensures that it is able to assist organisations when they need quick, practical and business-specific legal support.
The value of any legal document is not derived solely from the drafting of the document, but is acquired by harmonising the various internal documents enforced by an organisation such as contracts, policies, notices, HR decisions, and management communications. By implementing such a measure, Corrida Legal ensures that the organisation faces the least legal exposure.