One firm. Every stage of your business.
The plan is simple: build eLawby into a multidisciplinary, end-to-end advisory company. Our core specialisation today is legal and secretarial services; from there, we are progressively expanding into tax, finance, accounting, human resources, manpower solutions, digital marketing, and allied business support.
A platform businesses trust, professionals love.
To build a multidisciplinary business advisory platform that businesses trust and professionals love to work with — delivering reliable support through proactive follow-ups, seamless service, and long-term partnerships.
One-stop. Strategic. Compliance-driven.
To build a one-stop professional services platform that delivers seamless, strategic, compliance-driven and operational support under a single brand — enabling businesses to access reliable expertise across multiple domains efficiently and cost-effectively.
Our team members have individually advised on some of the most demanding corporate assignments in India:
Integrated professional services, under a single brand.
Core legal and secretarial expertise today — a growing suite of allied business services tomorrow. Open any service for the full legal detail.
GST & ITR filing, done for you.
GST 2.0 two-slab regime is live and the new Income-tax Act, 2025 governs Tax Year 2026-27 onwards. Our tax desk handles registrations, monthly GST returns, annual returns, reconciliations and your income tax return — end to end.
KEY DATES ON OUR DESK
On the ground, across India.
eLawby serves clients from five regions — combining metro deal-desk capability with deep roots in India's growth states.
Bangalore
Karnataka
Delhi NCR
National Capital Region
Bihar
Patna & Region
Uttar Pradesh
UP Region
Jharkhand
Dhanbad · Reg. Office
EKI — where practitioners are trained by practitioners.
Our training platform turns deal-room experience into structured learning — company law, securities regulation, FEMA, transactions, and the craft of corporate practice.
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Services
Core legal and secretarial specialisation with allied business services — tax, finance & accounting, HR & manpower, and digital marketing. Open "Know More" on any service for the legal framework, scope and process in detail.
Legal & Secretarial
Allied business services
Rolling out in phases as part of the eLawby end-to-end advisory platform.
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GST Filing & ITR Filing
India's tax law has been rewritten: GST 2.0 two-slab rates are in force from 22 September 2025, and the Income-tax Act, 2025 replaces the 1961 Act from 1 April 2026. The eLawby Tax Desk files your returns under the new acts and new forms — open "View details" on any form below.
GST 2.0 — the new rate regime
Following the 56th GST Council meeting (3 September 2025), the four-slab structure (5% / 12% / 18% / 28%) was replaced with a simplified structure effective 22 September 2025 — a merit rate of 5%, a standard rate of 18%, a 40% rate for select luxury and sin goods, and nil rate for essentials. The legal foundation remains the CGST Act, 2017, the IGST Act, 2017 and the respective SGST Acts, with rates notified by the CBIC. Compliance is tightening in parallel: invoice-level matching through the Invoice Management System (IMS), hard-locking of auto-populated GSTR-3B values, and registration linked to validated bank accounts.
Every form your business may need to file — with due dates, applicability and what eLawby does on each. Click "View details".
Hand your GST calendar to us.
Registration, monthly returns, ITC reconciliation against GSTR-2B, IMS actions, annual return and notices — one desk, one fee, zero missed dates.
Note: Rates, thresholds and due dates above reflect the position as notified up to June 2026 and may change by notification. Verify on gst.gov.in and incometax.gov.in, or write to the eLawby Tax Desk for a position note.
Regulatory Updates
A curated desk tracking MCA, SEBI and RBI developments, legal updates, fundraising and M&A activity in India and internationally, and IPO news — five latest entries per desk, each linked to its source.
Note: The eLawby Regulatory Desk curates these updates from official and reputed published sources, linked against each entry. Summaries are general in nature and not legal advice — always verify against the official notification before acting, or write to contact@elawby.com for a position note.
eLawby Knowledge Institute (EKI)
EKI is eLawby's training arm — built on the belief that the best corporate professionals are made in deal rooms, not just classrooms. Our programmes are designed and delivered by practitioners who have handled IPOs, fundraising and mergers first-hand.
Learn the way work actually happens.
Company Law in Practice
Incorporations, board processes, registers, filings and the working rhythm of the Companies Act, 2013 — taught through live templates.
Secretarial Compliance Bootcamp
Annual compliance calendars, MCA forms, event-based filings and secretarial audit methodology for CS students and young professionals.
Securities Laws & Listing
SEBI LODR, ICDR, takeover and insider trading frameworks — decoded with real disclosures and case-style exercises.
FEMA & Cross-Border Basics
FDI, ODI and ECB routes, reporting under FIRMS, and structuring conversations every inbound or outbound deal begins with.
Deal Room: M&A & Fundraising
Term sheets to closing — diligence, scheme drafting, valuation interfaces, SHA/SSA negotiation and condition-precedent management.
IPO Readiness Lab
What it really takes to list: corporate housekeeping, restatements, DRHP workstreams and life as a listed company.
Train with EKI
Cohorts for students, professionals and corporate teams. Custom in-house programmes available for companies.
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CSR & ESG Advisory
From statutory Corporate Social Responsibility under Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 to board-level ESG strategy and BRSR reporting — eLawby helps companies turn responsibility into a structured, defensible, and well-documented programme.
CSR is now law, not philanthropy.
Since the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2019 and the CSR Amendment Rules, 2021, CSR in India has moved from a "comply or explain" obligation to a mandatory, enforceable spend with registration, reporting and impact-assessment requirements. We make sure your CSR is both meaningful and audit-ready.
Who must comply (Sec. 135)
A company is covered if, in the immediately preceding financial year, it meets any one of these:
- Net worth of ₹500 crore or more, or
- Turnover of ₹1,000 crore or more, or
- Net profit of ₹5 crore or more.
How much to spend
At least 2% of the average net profits of the three immediately preceding financial years (computed under Section 198). Newly incorporated companies use the years available.
The CSR Committee
Required where spend obligations apply. Where the amount to be spent does not exceed ₹50 lakh, the Committee requirement is relaxed and the Board may discharge the functions directly.
Permitted activities — Schedule VII
CSR funds can only be applied to activities listed in Schedule VII, which is interpreted liberally. Common heads include:
- Eradicating hunger, poverty and malnutrition; promoting health care and sanitation; safe drinking water.
- Promoting education, including special education and vocational skills; livelihood enhancement.
- Promoting gender equality, women's empowerment; old-age homes; reducing inequalities faced by socially and economically backward groups.
- Environmental sustainability, ecological balance, conservation of natural resources, and animal welfare.
- Protection of national heritage, art and culture; public libraries; promotion of traditional arts and handicrafts.
- Measures for benefit of armed forces veterans, war widows and their dependents; Central Armed Police Forces.
- Training to promote rural, nationally recognised, Paralympic or Olympic sports.
- Contribution to the PM CARES Fund, PM National Relief Fund, and other Central Government funds.
- Contribution to incubators / R&D projects in science, technology, engineering and medicine funded by Government, and to specified research bodies.
- Rural development and slum area development; disaster management, including relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction.
Not CSR Activities undertaken in the normal course of business, contributions to political parties, benefits restricted only to employees, and one-off sponsorships for marketing are excluded.
Forms, registration & reporting
- Form CSR-1 — mandatory registration on the MCA portal for any entity (Section 8 company, registered trust or society) that implements CSR projects on behalf of a company.
- Form CSR-2 — a dedicated report on CSR filed with the Registrar (in addition to the CSR section of the Board's Report).
- Board's Report — must contain the annual report on CSR in the prescribed format, including the composition of the Committee, projects, amounts and reasons for any shortfall.
Unspent CSR — the new discipline
The days of carrying CSR forward casually are over:
- Ongoing projects: unspent amounts must be transferred to a dedicated "Unspent CSR Account" within 30 days of the financial year-end and spent within the next three financial years.
- Other cases: unspent amounts must be transferred to a Schedule VII fund (such as PM CARES) within six months of the year-end.
- Excess spend may be set off against the obligation of up to the three succeeding financial years, subject to conditions.
Impact assessment & penalties
Companies with an average CSR obligation of ₹10 crore or more in the three preceding years must undertake impact assessment, through an independent agency, of projects with outlays of ₹1 crore or more. Non-compliance with the spend/transfer requirements attracts monetary penalties on the company and its officers in default under Section 135(7).
How eLawby helps with CSR
- Applicability testing and computation of the 2% obligation under Section 198.
- Drafting the CSR Policy, Committee charter, and board/committee resolutions.
- CSR-1 registration of implementing partners and CSR-2 filing.
- Project structuring, MoUs with implementing agencies, and the Unspent CSR Account mechanics.
- Impact-assessment coordination and the annual CSR report in the Board's Report.
ESG: where capital, regulation and reputation meet.
Investors, lenders, large customers and regulators increasingly assess companies on environmental, social and governance performance. For listed companies it is already a reporting mandate; for unlisted companies and supply-chain vendors it is fast becoming a commercial pre-condition.
E — Environmental
Energy and emissions (including Scope 1, 2 and increasingly 3), water and waste, resource efficiency, and climate-related risk and transition planning.
S — Social
Employee well-being and safety, diversity and inclusion, human rights in the value chain, customer and community relationships, and data privacy.
G — Governance
Board composition and independence, ethics and anti-bribery, related-party transactions, risk management, and transparent, timely disclosure.
BRSR — India's mandatory ESG report
The Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR) is mandatory for the top 1,000 listed entities by market capitalisation under SEBI's LODR Regulations, filed as part of the annual report. It is built on the nine principles of the National Guidelines on Responsible Business Conduct (NGRBC) and asks for structured, comparable disclosures across the E, S and G dimensions.
BRSR Core & assurance
SEBI has introduced BRSR Core — a focused set of key performance indicators that require reasonable assurance for the largest listed companies on a phased basis — along with value-chain disclosures that extend ESG visibility to significant upstream and downstream partners.
Frameworks that matter
- GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) — the most widely used sustainability reporting standards.
- IFRS S1 & S2 / ISSB — global baseline for sustainability- and climate-related financial disclosures.
- TCFD — climate-related financial risk disclosure architecture, now folded into ISSB.
- SASB — industry-specific, financially material sustainability metrics.
ESG ratings & rating providers
ESG Rating Providers (ERPs) in India are now regulated by SEBI, bringing transparency to methodology and conflicts of interest. A strong, well-evidenced disclosure programme directly improves how rating agencies, index providers and capital allocators see your company.
Why it pays off
- Access to capital — ESG-linked loans, green bonds and sustainability-linked instruments, and inclusion in ESG indices.
- Risk management — early identification of regulatory, climate and reputational risk.
- Commercial advantage — meeting the ESG and supplier-code requirements of large customers and global buyers.
How eLawby helps with ESG
- ESG readiness assessment, materiality mapping and gap analysis against BRSR / BRSR Core.
- Building the data architecture and internal controls for assured KPIs.
- Drafting BRSR and aligning it with GRI / ISSB; board ESG governance and committee charters.
- Value-chain ESG due diligence and supplier code of conduct.
- Preparing for ESG ratings and investor / lender ESG questionnaires.
Build a programme that stands up to scrutiny
Whether you are crossing a CSR threshold for the first time or preparing your first BRSR, we will structure it end to end.
This page is general information, not legal advice. Thresholds, forms and timelines change — please confirm the current position for your specific facts before acting.
The eLawby Blog
Plain-language notes on the regulations that move your business — tax, secretarial, securities and cross-border. Skim the highlights, then read the full piece.
Articles are general information, not legal or tax advice, and reflect the position when written. Please confirm the current rules for your facts.
Compliance Calendar
Key statutory due dates across GST, Income Tax, the Companies Act and SEBI LODR — tracked against today's date so you always see what is overdue, due this week, and coming up. Recurring monthly returns and the major annual filings are all here.
Dates are based on standard timelines for a 31 March financial year-end and may be extended by the authorities or vary with your turnover, scheme (e.g. QRMP) and state. Always confirm the live date on the relevant Government portal before filing. This calendar is general information, not advice.
Privacy Policy
How eLawby LLP collects, uses, shares and protects personal data, in line with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the DPDP Rules, 2025.
Last updated: 18 June 2026 · Data Fiduciary: eLawby LLP
This Privacy Policy explains how eLawby LLP ("eLawby", "we", "us" or "our") handles the personal data of visitors, prospects and clients ("you") when you use this website, engage our services, or otherwise interact with us. We act as a Data Fiduciary under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ("DPDP Act") read with the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025.
1. What we collect
- Information you give us — name, organisation, designation, email, phone, city, and the details you share in enquiry forms, engagement documents or the chat assistant.
- Engagement data — information needed to deliver legal, secretarial, tax and advisory services, including statutory identifiers (such as PAN, DIN, CIN or GSTIN) where you provide them for a specific mandate.
- Technical data — limited usage and device information collected automatically to keep the site secure and functional.
2. Why we use it (purpose)
- To respond to enquiries and provide the services you request.
- To meet our own legal, regulatory and professional obligations.
- To communicate updates relevant to a live mandate, and — only with your consent — newsletters or alerts you may withdraw at any time.
We process personal data only for lawful purposes, and only to the extent necessary for those purposes.
3. Legal basis & consent
We rely on your consent and on the legitimate uses permitted under the DPDP Act. Where consent is the basis, you may withdraw it at any time by writing to us; withdrawal does not affect processing already carried out, or processing we are required by law to continue.
4. Sharing & disclosure
We do not sell personal data. We may share it with: (a) Data Processors who support us under written confidentiality and data-protection terms; (b) regulators, courts or authorities where required by law; and (c) your own advisors where you direct us to. Any cross-border transfer is made consistent with the DPDP Act and applicable government restrictions.
5. Retention
We keep personal data only as long as needed for the purpose it was collected, or as required by law (for example, records we must preserve under tax, company-law or professional rules). Thereafter it is erased or anonymised.
6. Security
We maintain reasonable security safeguards to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss or misuse, and review them periodically.
7. Your rights as a Data Principal
Subject to the DPDP Act, you may request access to, correction, completion, updating or erasure of your personal data; nominate another person to exercise your rights; and raise a grievance. To exercise any right, contact our Grievance Officer below.
8. Children's data
We do not knowingly process the personal data of a child (under 18) without verifiable consent of a parent or lawful guardian, and we do not undertake tracking, behavioural monitoring or targeted advertising directed at children.
9. Grievance Officer
For any privacy question, request or complaint, contact the Grievance Officer, eLawby LLP, at contact@elawby.com (Reg. Off: Lig 20, Housing Colony, Dhanbad, Jharkhand 826001). If you are not satisfied with our response, you may approach the Data Protection Board of India once it is operational.
10. Changes
We may update this Policy from time to time; the "Last updated" date above reflects the latest version.
See alsoDPDPA Declaration · Cookie Policy · Terms & Conditions
Terms & Conditions
The terms on which you may use the eLawby LLP website and the basis on which any professional engagement is undertaken.
Last updated: 18 June 2026
By accessing or using this website ("Site"), you agree to these Terms & Conditions. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.
1. Information only — not advice or solicitation
The content on this Site is provided for general information only. It does not constitute legal, secretarial, tax, financial or other professional advice, must not be relied upon as a substitute for advice on your specific facts, and creates no advisor-client relationship. Nothing on this Site is an advertisement, solicitation, inducement or invitation for work. Please read our Disclaimer.
2. Engagements
Any professional service is governed by a separate written engagement letter, which sets out scope, fees, timelines and responsibilities and prevails over these Terms for that mandate. No engagement arises merely from using the Site, sending an enquiry or using the chat assistant.
3. Acceptable use
- Use the Site lawfully and do not attempt to disrupt, probe or gain unauthorised access to it.
- Do not submit unlawful, infringing or misleading content, or another person's data without authority.
- Do not rely on the chat assistant as advice — it provides general information and may be inaccurate.
4. Intellectual property
The Site, its text, design, logo and content are owned by eLawby LLP or its licensors and are protected by law. You may view and print content for personal, non-commercial reference only; any other use requires our prior written consent.
5. Third-party links
The Site links to regulator and third-party websites for convenience. We do not control and are not responsible for their content, accuracy or availability.
6. No warranties & limitation of liability
The Site is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by law, eLawby LLP is not liable for any loss arising from use of, or reliance on, the Site or its content. Nothing here excludes any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.
7. Privacy
Your use of the Site is also governed by our Privacy Policy and DPDPA Declaration.
8. Governing law & jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by the laws of India. Subject to any arbitration agreed in an engagement letter, the courts at Dhanbad, Jharkhand shall have jurisdiction.
9. Changes
We may revise these Terms at any time; continued use of the Site means you accept the revised Terms.
Questions: contact@elawby.com
DPDPA Declaration
Our declaration of compliance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025.
Last updated: 18 June 2026
1. Our role
eLawby LLP is a Data Fiduciary for the personal data it determines the purpose and means of processing. Where we process data on a client's instructions as part of a mandate, we act as a Data Processor under written terms.
2. Principles we apply
- Lawful purpose & consent — we process personal data for a clear, lawful purpose, with consent or another lawful basis recognised by the DPDP Act.
- Notice — we tell Data Principals what we collect, why, how to withdraw consent and how to complain.
- Purpose & storage limitation — we collect only what is necessary and retain it only as long as needed or legally required.
- Accuracy — we take reasonable steps to keep data correct and complete.
- Security safeguards — we apply reasonable technical and organisational measures.
- Accountability — we maintain records and respond to Data Principal requests.
3. Rights of Data Principals
You have the right to access a summary of your personal data and processing; to correction, completion, updating and erasure; to nominate another to exercise your rights; and to grievance redressal. Requests are actioned within the timelines prescribed under the DPDP Rules.
4. Consent & withdrawal
Where we rely on consent, it is free, specific, informed, unconditional and unambiguous, and can be withdrawn as easily as it was given by writing to our Grievance Officer.
5. Children & persons with disability
We do not process a child's personal data, or that of a person with disability who has a lawful guardian, without verifiable consent, and we do not direct tracking or targeted advertising at children.
6. Personal data breach
In the event of a personal data breach, we will notify the affected Data Principals and the Data Protection Board as required, within the timelines set under the DPDP Rules.
7. Grievance redressal & contact
Grievance Officer / Data Protection contact: eLawby LLP, Lig 20, Housing Colony, Dhanbad, Jharkhand 826001 · contact@elawby.com. If unresolved, you may approach the Data Protection Board of India once operational.
This declaration is a statement of intent and practice; it is not legal advice. Specific obligations depend on the activity and the notified provisions in force from time to time.
Disclaimer & Statutory Notice
Important notices regarding the nature of this website and the professional-conduct rules under which it is published.
No solicitation / no advertisement
eLawby LLP does not solicit work or advertise through this website. By accessing this Site you acknowledge and confirm that you are seeking information about eLawby of your own accord, and that there has been no advertisement, personal communication, solicitation, invitation or inducement of any kind to create an advisor-client relationship.
Not professional advice
The information on this Site is general in nature, may not be current, and is not a substitute for professional advice on your specific facts. You should not act, or refrain from acting, on the basis of any content here without taking formal advice. eLawby LLP disclaims all liability for any loss arising from reliance on this Site.
No advisor-client relationship
Transmission, receipt or use of this Site, or contacting us through it, does not create an advisor-client relationship. Such a relationship arises only on a signed engagement letter.
Confidentiality of communications
Please do not send confidential or sensitive information through the website forms or chat assistant until a formal engagement is in place, as unsolicited information may not be treated as privileged or confidential.
AI assistant
The chat assistant on this Site provides general information only, may produce inaccurate or incomplete responses, and must not be relied upon as legal, tax or professional advice.
External links & third-party content
Links to regulators and third-party sites are provided for convenience only; eLawby LLP is not responsible for their content or accuracy.
Cookie Policy
How this website uses cookies and similar local-storage technologies.
Last updated: 18 June 2026
What cookies and local storage are
Cookies and browser storage are small pieces of data a website may place on your device to make it work, remember preferences, or understand usage.
How we use them
- Strictly necessary — to keep the Site secure and functioning (for example, remembering a staff login session within your browser).
- Preference / local storage — some tools on this Site (such as the compliance-calendar and internal trackers) store data locally in your own browser so your work persists between visits; this data stays on your device unless you choose to export or sync it.
We do not use this Site to run third-party advertising or to track you across other websites.
Managing cookies
You can control or delete cookies and clear local storage through your browser settings. Blocking strictly-necessary items may affect how parts of the Site work.
More information
See our Privacy Policy and DPDPA Declaration. Questions: contact@elawby.com.
Fees & Refund Policy
How professional fees, statutory pass-throughs and refunds are handled for eLawby engagements.
Last updated: 18 June 2026
1. Fees
Professional fees, scope and payment schedule for each mandate are set out in the engagement letter agreed before work begins. Fees are exclusive of applicable taxes (such as GST) and of government fees, stamp duty, filing fees and other statutory or third-party charges, which are payable at actuals.
2. Statutory & third-party charges
Government and regulator fees (for example, MCA/ROC filing fees, GST, stamp duty, late fees and challans) are pass-through costs collected on your behalf and are non-refundable once paid to the authority.
3. Refunds & cancellation
- If you cancel a mandate before substantial work has begun, any advance is refunded after deducting fees for work already performed and any statutory/third-party amounts already incurred.
- Where work has commenced, fees for completed milestones and out-of-pocket costs are not refundable.
- Refunds, where due, are processed to the original payment method within a reasonable time.
4. Timelines
We work to the timelines in the engagement letter, but statutory portals, regulator processing and third-party dependencies are outside our control and may affect delivery.
5. Disputes
Fee or service questions should first be raised with your engagement contact at eLawby. Dispute-resolution and governing-law terms are as stated in the engagement letter, read with our Terms & Conditions.
Questions: contact@elawby.com