FIRM OVERVIEW
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IndUS Counsel is a Silicon Valley based law firm that represents startups, mid-size companies and Fortune 500 in U.S and international transactions. As as boutique firm, we are well-suited to accommodate the legal needs of founders and investors who are working on boot-strapped budgets and are seeking to raise their first funding.
We also regularly represent California residents in their estate planning matters, including asset protection strategies, rental investments throughout the U.S., formation of LLCs, business buy-sell, purchase and operation of franchise stores, contract drafting/review, and other legal matters. Our managing attorney Snehal Patil is an 'in-network attorney' for many legal insurance plans, including ARAG, MetLife Legal Plans (formerly, Hyatt Legal Plans), CLC, LawPoint (aka ComPsych), LegalEASE, LegalShield and Workplace Options. We understand the 'Silicon Valley ecosystem' well and routinely represent Silicon Valley headquartered U.S. and international startups and emerging companies as their outside general counsel. We believe in 'end-to-end' representation and delivery of legal services, and often work with other professionals, including accountants, bankers, insurance agents, business planners, and financial and tax advisors to provide holistic services to our clients. We optimally utilize 'cloud based' technologies that enable us to deliver legal services at a fraction of the 'Big Law' rates. Our fee structure and in particular our alternative fee model enables us represent garage-based, bootstrapped startups as effectively as we represent Fortune 500. |
CORE VALUES
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IndUS Counsel was founded with the objective of increasingly offering 'value-based' services to its clients by providing high quality, affordable legal representation on diverse, complex multi-jurisdiction transactions. As a firm, we continually strive to enhance and partner in our clients' businesses and contribute to their success. To that end, we tailor our services and fees such that our clients consider efficient while maintaining a professional approach that is expected from a top quality law firm. Our 'low cost' approach does not translate into cutting corners in areas that are important to our clients or are otherwise necessary to meet our professional and ethical obligations. In fact, we invest significant resources in hiring reputed service providers known for their quality work supporting the U.S. legal industry. We also subscribe to leading legal databases that gives us access to current forms and templates for practically every type of legal representation and also helps us stay informed of latest case law and legal and business developments.
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VALUE PROPOSITION
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We invest in people, systems and resources instead of expensive office space, inexperienced salaried personnel, glossy marketing materials or other redundant expenses tied to the traditional law firm's expensive overhead. We have adopted several measures to minimize the firm's overhead that is common among traditional 'brick-and-mortar' law firms where these costs are ultimately borne by clients. As a firm, a significant portion of our overhead savings are directly passed onto our clients in the form of lower billing rates, experienced counsel and quick turnaround times. We also offer tremendous flexibility in our approach, including in the IT systems that we implement, so that we mirror our respective client's growth cycle. We believe that this approach helps the firm represent equally effectively 'boot-strapped' startups and emerging companies, as well as Fortune 500 companies and other large, multi-national entities.
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ROBUST INFRASTRUCTURE
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Our 'cloud-based' technological infrastructure backed by a robust, scalable information technology (IT) system enables us to quickly adapt and scale up (or down) and modify our internal processes as necessary to meet our clients' needs. We have engaged robust, well-established, third party providers of IT systems that, we believe, provide a secure, responsive experience and have a strong reputation for serving the U.S. legal industry. Our IT systems enable us to work efficiently and economically, both internally and externally. For instance, our document management, time entry and billing systems are fully cloud-based, multi-browser supported, with 256-bit SSL encryption and require two-factor access authentication. Our clients' information is stored at third party data centers that are SAS 70 Type II/SSAE16 certified and undergo a rigorous security audit typically every 24 hours. We also offer a secure, client-focused extranet that eliminates the need to transmit electronic copies of client documentation or other sensitive information via large email attachments. We take data security and client confidentiality extremely seriously and continuously monitor our third party service providers to ensure that they continue to provide robust IT systems that we and, more importantly, our clients expect.
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