Singhania & Partners and VIPS, Delhi to provide Legal training to Start-ups

• Date: 19-Aug-2019

Singhania & Partners LLP Solicitors and Advocates (S&P) has joined hands with Delhi-NCR’s prestigious Vivekananda School of Law and Legal Studies (VSLLS) of Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University to start a 20 week intensive training programme on “Legal Know-How for Startups”

The training programme will be beneficial for budding lawyers who want to develop specialisation in the field, Start-up founders, and students. It will equip the participants with the legal knowledge during the different life-stages of a start-up and everything that follows.

On the occasion of MoU signing ceremony, Mr. Ravi Singhania, Managing Partner, Singhania & Partners commented, “Starting up a new business venture is very exciting. At the same time, we regularly notice that our start-up clients face a lot of simple and complex issues surrounding cofounders, investors, intellectual property, early employees, mentors, and advisors. This programme is designed in such a manner that it will be equally beneficial for start-ups and budding lawyers who want to specialise in this field of practice” 

 Mr. Subranghu Sanyal, CEO, IIM- Calcutta Innovation Park which has incubated a number of successful start-ups congratulated S&P and VIPS on this industry-academia collaboration initiative and quoted, “India is ranked as #4 Economy in providing an eco-system for budding start-ups. This programme is the need of the hour as there are a lot of legal issues faced by start-ups and attaining this legal knowledge is an investment in realizing your start-up dream where a small mistake in the important contracts can cost you millions”

Dr. Rashmi Salpekar, Dean-VSLLS quoted, “It is very important to know the laws relevant for start-ups in India. This extensive 20 hours training programme spread across 4-5 weeks will familiarise budding lawyers, start-up founders and students of all disciplines with legal knowledge for starting up a business in India during the different life-stages of a start-up and everything that follows.”

The training will be conducted at VSLLS by leading corporate attorneys of Singhania & Partners and who have rich experience in representing a number of successful start-up companies and incubation centres. The participants will be provided a certificate at the end of the training programme jointly certified by Singhania & Partners and VIPS.

The training program is commencing on 30^th August 2019.   Download the Brochure  here: