Corporate Set Up, Secretarial Services & Due Diligence

Our team specializes in providing support, assistance and guidance to set up companies and assist companies and its officers to meet their statutory compliance obligations. This ensures that good corporate governance practices are both implemented and maintained.

The team’s extensive experience helps it ascertain the specific needs of its clients and ensures that corporate secretarial services are delivered in a timely and effective manner. The team is committed to the highest level of professionalism and ethics, helping organizations meet the essential corporate compliance obligations. The team focuses on the adoption of a proactive approach to ensure its clients are kept up to date with their compliance obligations.

We understand, the key corporate issues relating to our clients and act as trusted and valued advisers to support them on a wide range of matters, thus ensuring that our client companies are fully compliant in today’s increasingly regulated environment.

Being a full-service firm allows us to use specific strengths of various teams to understand the complex issues faced by our clients.

The team conducts legal and secretarial due diligence in different areas depending upon the nature of the transaction, namely:

Venture Capital Investments
Mergers and Acquisitions
Cross-border Acquisitions
IPO/ Rights issues

Additionally, the team regularly undertakes legal compliance health check-ups of companies in varied sectors with the objective of:

Ascertaining the extent of legal compliance
Highlighting the gaps in terms of non-compliance
Deciphering the remedial measures for overcoming the deficiencies
A consolidated report is subsequently provided dealing with all the legal compliances/aspects that require immediate attention of the management and has an important bearing on the running of the business and liability of the management

Incorporation Services

Setting up of private companies limited by shares, one person companies (OPC), special purpose vehicles, companies limited by guarantee, foundations/societies, associations, NGO, not for profit companies and public companies
Assisting foreign companies with the establishment of liaison offices, branch offices and project offices

Annual Compliance Services

Our annual compliance package for clients provides the certainty required to ensure their annual compliance obligations are dealt with in a timely and efficient manner. Our services include:

Maintenance of statutory registers and minute books
Preparation of Annual Returns and filing with the Companies Registration Office
Obtaining Director Identification Number (DIN); Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) and know your client (KYC) compliances for Directors
Holding of Board/ Shareholders meetings and documentation of the Minutes

Other Company Secretarial Services/ Transaction Assistance Services

Changes to companies’ share capital to include – share transfers, share allotments, buy-back and re-organization of share capital including capital reduction
Fund infusion through rights and preferential issues, compulsory convertible securities
Change in objects of the company
Change in registered office of the company — inter- and intra-state changes
Appointment of key managerial personnel and their remuneration
Corporate Social Responsibility services
Liaisoning with authorized dealer bank for obtaining foreign inward remittance certificate and know your client compliances of non-resident investor
Review of related-party transactions and compliances in respect thereof
Corporate law due diligence services and company search
Carry out health checks for companies on their statutory records and compliance history
Company conversions, name changes and review of constitutional documents
Provision of registered office facility for our clients

Advisory Services

Addressing queries on permitted activities, management structure, audit requirements, applicability of various compliance requirements and any other queries and providing opinions on various matters under the provisions of Companies Act, 1994 and the Partnership Act, 1932.

Licenses and registrations

Procuring registrations such as Permanent account number, Tax deduction at source, Goods and Services Tax, Provident Fund, Profession Tax, Importer Exporter Code, Shops and Establishments registration, etc.

Company Liquidation Services

End to end services in assisting with the closure of legal entity through Winding up