Strategic legal counsel for startups, founders, and growing businesses.

Lighthouse Legal advises startups, corporates, general counsel, and individuals on employment law, contracts, compliance, workplace risk, and business structuring — with clarity, discretion, and commercial precision.

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Who we are

Legal support is most effective when it reflects the way a business actually operates. Our approach is designed around that principle.

Legal support is most effective when it reflects the way a business actually operates. Our approach is designed around that principle

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Founder & Principal Counsel

Lighthouse Legal works closely with founders, leadership teams, and general counsel who require clear, commercially grounded legal thinking across the life of their organisations. Engagements often extend beyond single transactions or isolated queries to include ongoing advisory on employment strategy, contracts, governance, compliance, and risk.

Each mandate is led by experienced counsel with significant practice across corporate, employment, and workplace matters. This ensures continuity of thought, discretion in sensitive situations, and advice that reflects both legal position and business context.

Services

WHAT WE DO

Lighthouse Legal provides integrated, end-to-end legal advisory across corporate, employment, commercial, and risk matters. We work with startups, founders, corporates, general counsel, and individuals who require clear, commercially grounded legal support across the lifecycle of their businesses and professional engagements.

Our role is to ensure that legal frameworks keep pace with growth — from early structuring and commercial contracting to employment strategy, compliance, intellectual property protection, and dispute readiness. Each mandate is approached with close attention to context, risk exposure, and long-term business objectives.

Corporate, Commercial & Transactional Advisory

From entity structuring and commercial contracting to investment rounds, we provide comprehensive corporate support. For complex transactions and M&A, we coordinate with specialist advisors to ensure seamless, end-to-end guidance via a single point of contact.

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Employment & Workplace Advisory

We support leadership teams and organisations on employment documentation, workplace policies, leadership transitions, internal processes, and sensitive people-related matters. This includes advisory on exits, workforce restructuring, internal complaints, and risk mitigation strategies designed to protect both organisational and individual interests.

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Contract Strategy & Risk Management

Contracts shape commercial relationships and risk exposure. We assist in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of agreements and in developing internal contract frameworks and playbooks that allow businesses to operate with consistency and clarity as they scale.

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Intellectual Property & Brand Protection

We advise on the identification, protection, and strategic management of intellectual property. Through our network of specialist IP practitioners and litigation counsel, we provide end-to-end support covering registration, portfolio structuring, enforcement strategy, and dispute coordination where required.

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Litigation Strategy & Dispute Support

Where disputes arise or appear likely, we assist clients in assessing exposure, preserving documentation, and determining appropriate legal strategy. We work alongside experienced litigation counsel across forums to ensure coordinated representation aligned with business priorities, risk appetite, and reputational considerations.

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ESG, Governance & Compliance

We advise businesses on governance frameworks and evolving environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations, including workplace conduct, ethical frameworks, and policy design aligned with regulatory expectations and stakeholder scrutiny. Our approach integrates compliance with culture and operational realities.

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External General Counsel & Ongoing Advisory

As fractional counsel, we provide senior-level guidance for operations and strategy. This model offers expert risk management without a full in-house team, delivering commercially aligned advice to enable sustainable growth.

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Founder & Practice

The practice is led by Sairekha Sureshkumar, Founder & Principal Counsel, who brings nearly two decades of experience advising across corporate transactions, employment law, workplace risk, and governance matters. Her work spans early-stage ventures, established corporates, leadership teams, and professionals navigating complex legal and organisational transitions.

Sairekha began her career at leading law firms including ELP, AZB & Partners, JSA, and Desai & Diwanji, where she advised on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, infrastructure projects, and cross-border commercial arrangements. Over time, her practice expanded to include employment strategy, workplace investigations, and risk advisory for high-growth and service-led businesses.

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Lighthouse Legal advises on select mandates each year to ensure depth of attention and continuity of counsel across every engagement.

If you wish to explore working together, you may write to us with a brief note outlining your requirement. All communications are treated with discretion and professional confidentiality.

EMAIL

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Locations

Mumbai | Pune | Goa

For ongoing advisory, external general counsel support, or specific mandates relating to employment, corporate, intellectual property, ESG, transactions, or dispute strategy, you may request an introductory consultation by email.

We respond to all professional enquiries within a reasonable timeframe.

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