Legal Due Diligence for Startups: Cap Tables, Term Sheets, and Compliance

<p>Follow an in-house counsel at an Indian agri-tech startup through a real Series A funding round: reading a cap table before a term sheet lands, negotiating the clauses that matter most (liquidation preference, anti-dilution, board composition, information rights), fixing DPIIT recognition and ESOP compliance gaps before diligence finds them, walking the deal from term sheet to definitive agreements, and catching the founder-vesting, IP-assignment, and investor-consent red flags that most often threaten a round in its final weeks.</p>

Tools: Cap Tables, Term Sheets, DPIIT Recognition, ESOP Structuring, Shareholders Agreements