Setting up of Business and Closure

Choice of Business Organization: Key features of various structures and issues in

choosing between business structures including identification of location; tax

implications etc.

Company :Private Company; Public Company; One Person Company; Nidhi

Company; Producer Company; Foreign Company-

Charter documents of Companies :Memorandum of Association and Articles of

Association; Doctrine of ultra-vires; Doctrine of indoor management; Doctrine of

constructive notice; Incorporation Contracts; Alteration in MOA & AOA- Change of

name; registered office address; objects clause; alteration in share capital and alteration

in articles of association.

Legal status of Registered Companies :Small Company; Holding Company;

Subsidiary Company & Associate Company; Inactive Company; Dormant Company;

Government Company.

Limited Liability Partnership :Concept of LLP; Formation and Registration; LLP

Agreement; Alteration in LLP Agreement; Annual and Event Based Compliances.

Other forms of business organizations: Partnership; Hindu Undivided Family; Sole

Proprietorship; Multi State Co-operative Society; Formation; Partnership Agreement

and its registration.

Institutions Not For Profit &NGOs: Section 8 Company; Trust and Society-

Formation and Registration.

Financial Services Organization: NBFCs; Housing Finance Company; Asset

Reconstruction Company; Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs); Nidhi Companies;

Payment Banks; Registration.

Start-ups: Start-up India Policy; Registration Process; Benefits under the Companies

Act and other Government Policies;Different types of capital- Seed Capital; Venture

Capital; Private Equity; Angel Investor; Mudra Bank.

Joint Ventures; Special Purpose Vehicles :Purpose and Process.

Setting up of Business outside India: Issues in choosing location; Structure and the

processes involved.

Conversion of existing business entity: Conversion of private company into public

company and vice versa; Conversion of Section 8 company into other kind of

Company; Conversion of Company into LLP and vice versa; Conversion of OPC to

other type of company and vice versa; Company authorized to be registered under the

Act (Part XXI Companies); and other types of conversion.

Various Initial Registrations and Licenses: Mandatory Registration - PAN; TAN;

GST Registration; Shops & Establishments; SSI/MSME; Additional

Registration/License - ESI/PF; FCRA; Pollution; Other registration as per requirement

of sector; IE Code; Drug License; FSSAI; Trademark; Copyright; Patent; Design; RBI;

Banking; IRDA; Telecom; I & B; MSME Registration; Udyog Aadhar Memorandum;

Industrial License, Industrial Entrepreneurs Memorandum (IEM); State Level

Approval from the respective State Industrial Department.

Maintenance of Registers and Records: Register and Records required to be

maintained by an enterprise.

Identifying laws applicable to various Industries and their initial compliances:

Compliance of industry specific laws applicable to an entity at the time of setting up of

the enterprise.

Intellectual Property laws (Provisions applicable for setting up of business):

Copyright Act; 1957; Patents Act; 1970; Trade Mark Act; 1999; Geographical

indication of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act; 1999; Designs Act; 2000.

Compliances relating to Environmental laws (Provisions applicable for setting up

of business):Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act; 1974;Air (Prevention

and Control of Pollution) Act; 1981; Environment Protection Act; 1986; Public

Liability Insurance Act; 1991; National Green Tribunal Act; 2010.

Compliances under Labour Laws (Provisions applicable for setting up of

business): Factories Act; 1948; Minimum Wages Act; 1948;Payment of Wages Act;

1936; Equal Remuneration Act; 1976; Employees’ State Insurance Act;

1948;Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act; 1952; Payment

of Bonus Act; 1965; Payment of Gratuity Act; 1972;

Employees Compensation Act; 1923; Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act;

1970; Industrial Disputes Act; 1947; Trade Unions Act; 1926; Maternity Relief Act;

1961; Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act; 1986;Persons

with Disabilities ( Equal Opportunities; Protection of Rights and Full Participation )

Act, 1995; Prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention;

Prohibition and Redressel) Act; 2013.

Dormant Company: Obtaining dormant status and dormant to active status.

Strike off and restoration of name of the company and LLP.

Insolvency Resolution process; Liquidation and Winding-up: An overview.