Tanvi Raikar — Legal Trainee, Corporate Advisory
New Delhi, Delhi
Law graduate in the first year of corporate practice, enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi in 2025 after five internships across disputes, policy and in-house teams. Drafted the subscription and shareholders’ documents for a ₹6 crore seed round that signed three weeks after the term sheet.
Experience
Legal Trainee, Corporate Advisory, Bhandari Kaul & Co., Advocates · July 2025 – present
Six-lawyer corporate team advising early-stage companies and family-owned businesses.
- Drafted the share subscription and shareholders’ agreements for a ₹6 crore seed round that signed three weeks after the term sheet.
- Completed secretarial and litigation due diligence on 14 targets, flagging three unregistered charges that changed the indemnity position.
- Maintains the team’s precedent bank and has added 22 clause variants drawn from closed transactions.
- Writes the weekly note on Companies Act and SEBI circulars, now circulated to 40 retainer clients.
Assessment Intern, then Legal Trainee, Marwah Chopra Legal · December 2024 – June 2025
- Reviewed 180 vendor contracts for a logistics client against a six-point risk checklist and escalated 27 carrying uncapped liability.
- Prepared first drafts of nine legal notices and four replies under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, all issued with minor edits.
- Compiled the documentary evidence index in a ₹2.4 crore commercial suit, admitted by the court without objection.
Education
- B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) Law (Corporate Law honours) · Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar · July 2020 – May 2025
Skills
- Corporate advisory: Companies Act compliance, Due diligence, Shareholders agreements, Board resolutions, Charge filings
- Drafting: Commercial contracts, Term sheets, Legal notices, Non-disclosure agreements, Research memoranda
- Research: SCC Online, Manupatra, MCA21 filings, SEBI circulars, Case digests
Certifications
- All India Bar Examination — Bar Council of India
- Enrolled Advocate — Bar Council of Delhi
