NovoJuris

NovoJuris is an innovative, new-age law firm that leverages the best-in-class research to provide contemporary, relevant, holistic and value-adding solutions to its clients. Since 2008, NovoJuris has championed and empowered its clientele through all stages of growth. NovoJuris’ fresh and inventive approach has consistently earned itself a place among the top law firms in India.

Since its inception, the team of highly capable and high performing lawyers at the firm have advised over 3000 diverse clients - ranging from large corporates, financial institutions, governments, investors, emerging startups, MNCs - across a multitude of practice areas such as fund formations (India, Middle East, Mauritius, BVI), private equity and venture capital, M&A, data protection, intellectual property, cross-border transactions (internalisation and externalisation), media, technology laws, dispute resolution - to name a few.

In addition, NovoJuris is at the forefront of developing new practice areas, inspired by its client and market needs such as space tech, crypto/NFT, web3, artificial intelligence and the like. In the recent past, NovoJuris has worked with industry leaders in practice areas such as fintech, healthtech, edutech in co-piloting successful growth.

NovoJuris has worked on several cross-border transactions in the realm of investments, acquisition, IP, externalisation, internalisation, employment, customer contracts, data protection, and is a frequent collaborator with international law firms.

A short list of NovoJuris’ accolades, awards and recognitions for many of our practice areas:

• Forbes Legal Powerlist
• Chambers & Partners
• Legal 500
• Asian Legal Business
• IBLJ
• IFLR 1000

NovoJuris Vision and Culture

NovoJuris operates on four core pillars -

• Depth of knowledge, to provide deep expertise;
• Customer centricity, to provide knowledge which the client requires or does not know what they don’t know;
• Profitability and sustainability, in providing solutions which work the best for the client, while accomplishing all this by being a
• Great place to work, with excellent people-oriented and work-life balance culture,underpinned by purpose-driven leadership with a strong commitment to value-adding impact.

The firm is dedicated to upskilling its workforce (which includes lawyers, interns, paralegals, non-legal professionals), through weekly speaker sessions and a dedicated eLearning platform.

Digital Transformation is also a catalyst for the firm’s growth, and has created a number of technological solutions to bring in efficiency and drive customer collaboration - including a lawfirm-specific ERP solution; AI-driven contract creation; ML-driven document library which searches for contracts, opinions, clauses; and a contract management tool.

NovoJuris played an integral role in advocating for the removal of Angel Tax, and brought together leading industry bodies such as Indian Angel Network, The Indus Entrepreneurs, and NASSCOM.

NovoJuris spearheaded in writing to the Ministry of Finance to make changes to tax policy with angel investments in the country. The firm’s Founder and Managing Partner, Sharda Balaji, is a member of the NITI Aayog, a public policy think-tank of the Government of India, and has contributed to India’s semiconductor policy, youth skill development, to name a few.

NovoJuris believes in giving back and doing good - and works with non-profits like Datri (stem cell donor registry) and Baale Mane (a shelter for orphan girls). The firm has also provided pro-bono services to female-founded startups, to aid their inception journey.