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Vivo’s recent ad campaigns feature Aamir Khan and a child in an amusement park and shows off the impressive Vivo pop-up camera set up and “super night” mode – an enticing ad, definitely. However, the ad seems to have gotten the phone maker in hot water with the Ogilvy group. The Ogilvy group has filedRead more

  Feminine hygiene is a $20 billion industry but has failed to see any major innovation in the past decade, reports Technavio. Consumer attitude towards hygiene products, however, is changing and entrepreneurs are recognising the need to innovate and cater to this emerging market. A conservative attitude towards mensuration and female hygiene in rural as wellRead more

Ikigai Law acted on Doxper’s US$4 million fund raise from Alkemi Ventures. [1] The round also saw participation from Rainforest Venture Network, existing investor growX Ventures and angel investors. Doxper provides a digital pen and encoded paper-based solution to helps doctors and hospitals automatically digitise health records. Since doctors continue to use pen and paper there is a ‘zeroRead more

The relatively young co-living industry in India is attracting sizeable investments from institutional investors and venture capital firms. Ikigai Law advised Stanza Living, that is focussed on student-accommodation, in its Series C fundraise from Falcoln Edge and repeat investors Sequoia, Matrix Partners and Accel. New York based Falcoln Edge was represented by Goodwin Proctor andRead more

Aparna Sai and Ranajit Dam cover Ikigai Law’s views in their article “Start-up Nation” in the June edition of Asian Legal Business. The article discusses how the startup practice is evolving for law firms and how lawyers are playing a critical role in the development of the sector. Here are some excerpts: Anirudh Rastogi, founderRead more

The employment/labour laws in India primarily flow from the Constitution, specific enactments pertaining to the subject matter both at the central and state level along with judicial decisions along with administrative rulings and regulations. The applicability of a particular enactment is generally contingent inter alia on the nature of the industry; the number of workers employed;Read more

TRA is the winner in two categories for the IDEX Legal Awards 2017: Startup LawFirm of the Year and Social Impact Initiative of the Year. TRA was the runner-up in the Startup Law firm of the Year Category in 2016. We are in particular happy for the recognition of our social impact work: from incubatingRead more

Rishabh Sinha, Counsel at TRA was invited to speak on urban mobility regulation in India at the Connect Karo 2017 organised by WRI India in partnership with startup India. He conducted an interactive workshop using case studies to deliberate on some of the biggest regulatory challenges in the area.