01 · The founder
We have raised money ourselves
Our managing partner co-founded a fintech startup and raised its seed round from a venture fund. We know what a term sheet looks like when it is your company, your equity and your time on the line.
Why Pier Counsel
Venture law, since 2007
For nearly two decades, most of our work has been one thing: helping founders raise, grow and sell their companies, and helping the funds that back them invest. Our partners have sat in every seat at that table.
See our track record2007
The year we started advising founders and venture funds
6
India Business Law Journal awards since 2021, four of them for Startups
$110M+
Combined size of the funding rounds in our track record below
1
India chapter of The Venture Capital Law Review, written by our managing partner
Perspective
Every seat at the table
Most lawyers see a financing from one side. Ours have seen it from all three, and it changes how we advise.
02 · The investor
We have written the cheque
Our partners have invested in startups as angels and committed capital to venture funds as limited partners. We read a deal the way the people funding it do, and know which protections investors actually rely on.
03 · The counsel
We act for both sides
We act for companies and for the funds that invest in them, from the first cheque to the exit. Seeing both sides tells us which terms matter and which only look like they do, so negotiation time goes on the points that count.
Track record
Funds come back
Much of our work is for venture funds, and they return: one Japanese venture investor has worked with us on three deals, from a Series A to an exit. These are deals that have been reported publicly. We do not name clients without their consent.
Series A & Series B
Two consecutive rounds for an edtech company
For the company
Series A, Series C & exit
Three deals for a Japanese venture investor
For the investor
Acquisition
Sale of a B2B retail-commerce company to a larger platform
For the company
Seed
Seed round in a spacetech company
For the lead investor
Seed
Seed round in an AI software company
For the lead investor
Pre-Series A
Pre-Series A round in a health-payments company
For a venture investor
Round sizes are as publicly reported. They are the total size of each round, not the amount any one client invested.
Sectors
Moving with Indian venture
The companies we work with have changed as Indian venture capital has. Today, much of our seed work is in deeptech.
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2019–21
Edtech and consumer
Growth rounds for education and consumer companies as venture funding in India expanded.
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2022–24
B2B commerce, fintech and AI
Supply-chain platforms, health payments and applied AI, and exits to strategic buyers in India and abroad.
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2025–26
Deeptech and spacetech
Seed rounds in space technology and AI companies, where the standard venture documents need rethinking.
How a round runs
Term sheet to filing, in one team
Our company secretaries work in the same team as our deal lawyers. The regulatory filings and secretarial work after a closing stay with the people who negotiated the deal, instead of being handed to another firm.
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01
Term sheet
Valuation, the instrument, board rights and investor protections, agreed before anyone pays for full documents.
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02
Due diligence
Corporate, IP and regulatory checks, including foreign-investment rules and land-border (Press Note 3) look-throughs for funds with overseas investors.
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Definitive agreements
Share subscription and shareholders’ agreements, amended articles, and the ESOP pool.
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04
Closing
Board and shareholder approvals, allotment of shares and stamp duty, run by our company secretaries.
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After closing
Foreign-investment reporting, statutory filings, and the cap table and ESOP records the next investor will ask for.
Recognition & writing
Recognised for startup work
Our managing partner wrote the India chapter of The Venture Capital Law Review, covering fund formation, investment structures, capital raising by startups and exits.
About the publication- 2026India Business Law Journal, Indian Law Firm Awards: Startups
- 2025India Business Law Journal, Indian Law Firm Awards: Startups, and Private Equity & Venture Capital (firms of up to 100 lawyers)
- 2023India Business Law Journal, Indian Law Firm Awards: Startups
- 2023The Venture Capital Law Review, third edition: India chapter, by Anand Kumar
- 2023Anish Vohra: BW Legal World 30 Under 30
- 2022India Business Law Journal, Indian Law Firm Awards: Internet & E-commerce
- 2021India Business Law Journal, Indian Law Firm Awards: Startups, in the category’s first year
- 2022–26Anand Kumar: India Business Law Journal A-List
Contact
Let’s connect
Get in touch with Pier Counsel. We’re here to bring your ideas to life. Let’s start a conversation!
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