Singhania & Partners And VIPS, Delhi To Provide Legal Training To Start-Ups
LIVELAW NEWS NETWORK
16 Jun 2020 2:45 PM IST
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 5 week intensive training programme on "Legal Know-How for Start-ups"
The training programme is designed for start-up founders and budding lawyers who want to develop specialisation in this practice and students of management. It will empower the participants with the finer nuances of law during the different life-stages of a start-up and everything that follows.
According to, Mr. Ravi Singhania, Managing Partner, Singhania & Partners "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, advisors, and now force majeure. This programme is designed in such a manner that it will be equally beneficial for start-ups and students who want to specialise in this field"
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 familiarize budding lawyers, start-up founders and students of all disciplines with legal knowledge for managing a start-up in India during the different life-stages of a start-up and everything that follows."
The training will be conducted online by leading corporate attorneys and industry experts who have rich experience in representing a number of successful start-ups and have run successful start-ups respectively. The participants will be provided a certificate at the end of the training programme jointly certified by Singhania & Partners and VSLLS, VIPS. Deserving students can also get an opportunity to intern with the law firm.
The training programme will commence on Friday, 26th June 2020. Click here to download the details.
