About the firm
A boutique corporate law practice built for precision.
Tangent Legal advises founders, investors, boards, directors and senior management across the full lifecycle of a business- from incorporation through growth, fundraising, restructuring and where required, orderly closure.
The firm was founded on a single conviction that the most consequential legal work is not found in checklists or templated advice - it is found at the precise intersection of law, business reality, and analytical rigour.
That conviction determines how the practice is organised. Engagements are led by the principal. Analysis is not delegated. The written product a client receives is intended to be usable by a board without translation, and specific enough to act on.
Our conviction
The companies that get into trouble are not the ones that ignored the law. They are the ones that understood the words - and missed the meaning.
Most corporate difficulty is not the product of ignorance. It is the product of a provision read literally and applied without regard to how it operates in practice - how it has been enforced, how it has been interpreted, and what it was intended to achieve.
Method
How this practice reads the law.
Beyond checklists
Corporate India has no shortage of compliance checklists. The harder part is the substance behind them - enforcement trends, judicial interpretation and regulatory intent - and how the law actually operates, not merely what it says.
Fear as a diagnostic tool
Useful analysis often begins with a question no one thought to ask. Liabilities, regulatory exposures and structural risks tend to sit undetected - naming them early is what makes them addressable.
Continuity of analysis
In a boutique setting a matter stays with the same reader from the first question to implementation, so the analysis does not change hands midway.
Approach
How this kind of work usually proceeds.
- I
The commercial context comes first
A legal question rarely makes sense apart from the business situation that produced it.
- II
The risk landscape is wider than the question
Adjacent risks matter as much as the obvious one - the provision a transaction inadvertently triggers, the clause that will matter years from now.
- III
Analysis is only useful in plain language
Position, range of risk, options and a reasoned view, stated so a non-lawyer can act on them.
- IV
Implementation is where it is tested
Drafting, filing, negotiation and follow-through decide whether the analysis holds up.
Who these areas concern
Founders
Seed to growth. Term sheets, agreements, cap table, ESOPs.
CFOs & Finance
Cross-border compliance, related-party risk, contract review.
Directors & KMPs
Personal duty advisory. Multiple boards.
PE / VC Investors
Transaction documents, structuring, exits.
Companies
Growth-stage and mid-market. General-counsel-style support.