Inbound Investment Advisory Services

India offers attractive opportunities for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Since opening up of economy in 1991 India has adopted a progressive approach towards FDI and as on date major sectors are available for FDI under Automatic Route.
We leverage our comprehensive understanding of Indian business environment and regulatory structure to deal with complex cross border business issues. Our range of services includes:

FP&A focuses on transforming business data into a reliable, relevant and actionable intelligence using business intelligence and reporting tools.  FP&A answers strategic questions, forecasts for the future, ensures a timely accounting close, prepares board reporting packages, preps the executive team, assists in decision making process to divest a division, analyzes product line profitability, performs due diligence on an acquisition and does the budget.

Although the FP&A function has been a key component of the office of the CFO for decades, with the increasingly faster pace of change, its prominence has vastly increased in the past 4-5 years.

Our FP&A team enables you to know how to influence and predict your financial future. We provide insights and aid strategic decision-making for not just accelerating revenue & profitability growth, but also for predictability. We focus on transforming your business data into a reliable, relevant and actionable intelligence. Our analysis peers into the depths of financial statements, establishing operational dependencies and consequently deriving a more accurate forecast.

Vast majority of a company’s value is derived from its future earnings. We in conjunction with the management team develop various financial forecasts that plan how the company will achieve those earnings. In addition we also work as business partners on various projects to increase revenue, decrease cost and optimize company performance in support of achieving those future earnings as well.

The iterative forecast process involves root-cause analysis across every stage and is the basis for all business drivers based planning, budgeting and continuous improvement.

Management Reporting and Dashboards: 

Timely and meaningful information is critical for effective business management. We help define, design and implement dashboard of relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) and build monthly financial reporting packages enabling management to focus on the health of the business. In order to capture financial information accurately at source, we restructure the financial software to include relevant cost centers and chart of accounts.

By leveraging our cloud based technology platform Navigo, we deliver the reports and analysis online, thereby allowing us to engage our clients more on strategic intent and less on transactional reporting.

FP&A focuses on transforming business data into a reliable, relevant and actionable intelligence using business intelligence and reporting tools.  FP&A answers strategic questions, forecasts for the future, ensures a timely accounting close, prepares board reporting packages, preps the executive team, assists in decision making process to divest a division, analyzes product line profitability, performs due diligence on an acquisition and does the budget.

Although the FP&A function has been a key component of the office of the CFO for decades, with the increasingly faster pace of change, its prominence has vastly increased in the past 4-5 years.

Our FP&A team enables you to know how to influence and predict your financial future. We provide insights and aid strategic decision-making for not just accelerating revenue & profitability growth, but also for predictability. We focus on transforming your business data into a reliable, relevant and actionable intelligence. Our analysis peers into the depths of financial statements, establishing operational dependencies and consequently deriving a more accurate forecast.

Vast majority of a company’s value is derived from its future earnings. We in conjunction with the management team develop various financial forecasts that plan how the company will achieve those earnings. In addition we also work as business partners on various projects to increase revenue, decrease cost and optimize company performance in support of achieving those future earnings as well.

The iterative forecast process involves root-cause analysis across every stage and is the basis for all business drivers based planning, budgeting and continuous improvement.

Management Reporting and Dashboards: 

Timely and meaningful information is critical for effective business management. We help define, design and implement dashboard of relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) and build monthly financial reporting packages enabling management to focus on the health of the business. In order to capture financial information accurately at source, we restructure the financial software to include relevant cost centers and chart of accounts.

By leveraging our cloud based technology platform Navigo, we deliver the reports and analysis online, thereby allowing us to engage our clients more on strategic intent and less on transactional reporting.

Key offerings: 
Planning and implementing
1) Advise on an India entry approach and suggestions for obtaining optimal ownership.
2) Suggest, plan and implement entry strategy for the business by doing a detailed analysis of the regulatory environment, evaluate alternative entry options and decide best fit option.
Regulatory Approvals
1) Advise on the entity structuring for selecting an optimal entry vehicle such as a branch, subsidiary, LLP, joint venture, to name a few.
2) Assist in incorporation, getting investment approval or setting up branch office. Assist in filing/obtaining necessary regulatory approvals including those from the Reserve Bank of India, Ministry of Corporate Affairs and other regulatory authorities.
3) Advise on capital structuring in the backdrop of foreign exchange policies keeping repatriation needs in mind.
4) Assistance in obtaining registrations required under various statutes.
Statutory and Compliance Support
1) Act as the nominee resident director.
2) Draft and maintain statutory records, review of shareholders, joint venture, and other relevant business agreements, draft and maintain minutes of meetings (Shareholders and Board).
3) Assist in approvals for increase/reduction of capital, change of registered office etc.
Infrastructure Support
1) Provide office infrastructure in the initial stages of the company when it is in the process of setting up.