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A Founders' Agreement is an official contract that is signed between all the co-founders of a firm. This document states all the responsibilities, ownership, and initial investments made by each of the founders of the company. It is advised to make a founders' agreement at the incorporation stage of an enterprise as it will lay out the responsibilities and roles of each of the co-founders.

Mainly, an agreement is made at the time of the incorporation to avoid ambiguity that may arise in the enterprise in future. It also sets up the expectations and goals of all the co-founders by assigning each of them a specific role and responsibility towards the betterment of the enterprise.


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Benefits of Founders' Agreement

  • Determining the type of business entity:
    The founders' agreement will clearly mention the nature and type of entity that should be established by the co-founders thereby setting the proper path to be followed.
  • Outlined business plans:
    This agreement describes the vision and mission of the entity and sets the short term and long term goals to be achieved over a period of time.
  • Designating the roles and responsibilities:
    Obviously, there will be overlapping roles and functions between co-founders without having a proper framework of the assigned roles. Therefore, it is important to designate the roles and responsibilities of the co-founders, in accordance with their area of mastery like marketing, operations, finance, etc.
  • Structure of ownership:
    The founder's agreements will clearly specify the structure of ownership pertaining to the initial contribution made by the cofounder or the percentage of the equity shares held by the cofounder in case of a company, thereby avoiding any future conflicts in between them.
  • Decision making:
    At a certain point in time, there will be an ideological conflict between co-founders, So these conflicts are to be handled through the proper decision-making process. Here the founders' agreement will formulate a procedure to be followed during the decision making process. If the voting system is adopted, then it should define the value of votes for each founder and provide a solution in case of a deadlock situation.
  • Compensation provisions:
    This agreement laid down the scheme of compensation to be carried out, if anyone of the cofounder has violated the provisions mandated. Here, the proportion of the compensation to be made will be mentioned for every cofounder.
  • Expulsion of co-founders:
    Any co-founder can be evicted from the company for indulging in fraudulent activities like misappropriation of funds, sexual harassment, and getting employed with other organisations. This agreement ensures a proper structure on how to deal with these situations and sorting out appropriate funds to be reverted to the expelled co-founder.
  • Confidentiality:
    There was a separate clause on confidentiality in the founders' agreement, which makes an obligation for founders to not reveal the secrets of the business.

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Documents & Details Required for Filing Founders' Agreement

  • Address Proof of all co-founders
  • Identity Proof of all co-founders
  • Identity Proof of Witnesses
  • Objective of the company
  • Number of equity shares of each co-founder
  • Overall percentage of shares of each co-founder

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Process for filing Founders' Agreement

  • The draft of the founder's agreement is prepared by including all the required fields, like objectives of the company, terms, and, conditions to be followed by the co-founders.
  • Once the drafting process is complete, check if all mandatory provisions have been included, with no ambiguous clauses.
  • Add additional information that has to be furnished in the agreement, if required.
  • The final draft should be acknowledged by all the cofounders, that it has been scrutinised with acceptance of the aforementioned agreement.
  • Once all co-founders have agreed to the agreement, it should be notarized on a non-judicial stamp paper.
  • After notarizing, get the signature of all the co-founders on the agreement.
  • Before entering into the agreement, get expert guidance to avoid disputes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The registrar of companies (RoC) across India expect applicants to follow a few naming guidelines. Some of them are subjective, which means that approval can depend on the opinion of the officer handling your application. However, the more closely you follow the rules listed below, the better your chances of approval. First, however, do ensure that your name is available.

If you have all the documents in order, it will take no longer than 15 days. However, this is dependent on the workload of the registrar.

No, new company registration is a fully online process. As all documents are filed electronically, you would not need to be physically present at all. You would need to send us scanned copies of all the required documents & forms.

You can use (TM) mark as soon as the Trademark application is filed and you receive acknowledgement receipt. (R) mark can be used once trademark is registered.

Trademark, the word is a combination of TRADE and MARK, means a mark which is used in trade, commerce or business.If you close down your business, in legal sense, if you do not carry on any business under your trademark then it will cease to exist. However in practical sense the trademark registry will continue to show your trademark alive unless it is withdrawn by you or it expires after 10 years of registration, due to non-renewal.

Every 10 years the trademark to be renewed, so that you can use your trademark for indefinite time.

An entity liable to be registered under GST should apply for registration within 30 days of meeting the criteria. Casual taxable persons and non-resident taxable persons are required to be registered under GST prior to commencing business.

The primary authorized signatory is the person who is primarily responsible to undertake tasks on the GST portal on behalf of the taxpayer. It could be the promotion of the business or any other trustworthy person nominated by the promoters of the business.

Yes, PAN is mandatory for obtaining GST registration. In the case of proprietorship, the PAN of the proprietor can be used. In the case of LLP or Company or Trust or other types of a legal entity, PAN must first be obtained for the entity. However, PAN is not mandatory for the GST registration of foreigners and foreign companies. For non-resident taxable persons, GSTIN with a fixed expiry date will be provided based on the other documents provided to prove existence.

Yes, you need to file. There is a difference between filing income tax return and deducting TDS. You file a tax return as a proof of the payment of all the taxes due. The IT return would also help you while applying for a visa or a loan.

You can make the payment directly to the Government on the official website of the IT Department. You may pay through net banking, along with Challan 280.

Yes, You can file delayed IT returns for all the years lapsed so far.