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Analysis on the questions boards, promoters and private clients actually ask — written by the professionals who do the work, and reviewed before it is published.
Corporate Affairs
A board dispute is decided in the first month: preserve documents, get a written assessment, then choose — fight, settle, or structure it away.
November 2026 · 6 min read
Corporate Affairs
Read the qualifications first. A secretarial audit under Section 204 and Regulation 24A is the board's early-warning system — and its best protection.
November 2026 · 5 min read
Corporate Affairs
Family disputes rarely begin with money — they begin with roles, exits and unwritten promises. Five arrangements, signed early, prevent most of them.
November 2026 · 6 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
An SME IPO prices your company, makes family shares liquid and raises the value of what you keep. The price is decided in the two years before the DRHP.
November 2026 · 5 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
Buyers pay for verified numbers and a business that runs without you — and discount for the rest. The 12 months before a sale remove the discounts.
November 2026 · 5 min read
FEMA & Regulatory Matters
A SEBI or MCA notice opens a legal record, it is not correspondence. Four jobs in week one decide whether it stays a proceeding or becomes a crisis.
November 2026 · 5 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
A demerger separates businesses with continuity — and, under Section 2(19AA), without immediate tax cost. The price is process: NCLT, consents, time.
November 2026 · 5 min read
Corporate Finance
Perfect accounting, unanswered questions — the sign a group has outgrown its accountants. What a CFO office adds: one set of numbers everyone trusts.
November 2026 · 5 min read
Corporate Affairs
Sections 241u2013242 give an oppressed shareholder the strongest remedy in company law — at a price. Why the petition works best as pressure, not the goal.
November 2026 · 5 min read
FEMA & Regulatory Matters
An SFIO investigation or ED summons is built to overwhelm. Preserve everything, let counsel speak, put the board in order — process, not panic.
November 2026 · 6 min read
FEMA & Regulatory Matters
SEBI writes the rules, polices them, and punishes breaches — three jobs, one body. The plain-language version for listed-company boards.
October 2026 · 8 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
Half-yearly results in 45 days, shareholding patterns, disclosures measured in hours — what the first year of being listed actually demands.
October 2026 · 9 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
Three years of books rebuilt to listing standards — where due diligence actually bites: related parties, cash-flow tests, peer-reviewed auditors.
October 2026 · 9 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
Buying the business or buying the company? Tax, stamp duty, liabilities and employees — a decision table acquirers can actually use.
October 2026 · 10 min read
FEMA & Regulatory Matters
A tribunal ordered liquidation despite a unanimous creditor vote for resolution. The NCLAT reversed it — what boards and creditors should take away.
October 2026 · 8 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
A first public issue on BSE SME or NSE Emerge under ICDR Chapter IX — how it differs from the mainboard, and who it suits.
October 2026 · 5 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
The fundraising pipeline stage by stage — preparation, banker, DRHP, the issue, listing. Costs, timelines, and where it stalls.
October 2026 · 6 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
Eligibility says whether you can list. Preparation decides whether you list well — the sequenced twelve months, in the right order.
October 2026 · 5 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
Growth capital, credibility, liquidity — plus half-yearly scrutiny and permanent costs. The honest case, both sides stated plainly.
October 2026 · 5 min read
Corporate Affairs
MCA GC 05/2026: AOC-4 fee-free to 31 Dec 2026, MGT-7/7A to 31 Jan 2027. AGM dates unchanged; LLP Form 8 still 30 Oct. Plus small-company limits and the heavier Board report.
October 2026 · 7 min read
FEMA & Regulatory Matters
₹3 crore average profit test, market-cap eligibility, ₹1 lakh applications, market making scrapped. Comments close 4 November — plan now.
October 2026 · 8 min read
FEMA & Regulatory Matters
Section 454 adjudication moved to the RoC in Feb 2026 — and the CCFS amnesty closed in September. Old defaults now have fast consequences.
October 2026 · 7 min read
Taxation
One tax year, 536 sections, everything renumbered. What to fix in TDS, contracts and policies during the two-Act transition.
October 2026 · 7 min read
FEMA & Regulatory Matters
₹250 crore penalties, consent architecture, breach clocks, DPO and DPIA — the phased plan you should already be running.
October 2026 · 8 min read
Corporate Affairs
Recognition is not a badge. It is a key — to a tax holiday, lighter compliance, and fairer public procurement. Here is the 2026 eligibility test and the four mistakes that sink applications.
October 2026 · 6 min read
Corporate Affairs
The Registrar's clock does not pause for anyone. Every ROC deadline for FY 2025-26 — AOC-4, MGT-7, DPT-3, MSME-1, triennial DIR-3 KYC — with the exact price of missing each one.
October 2026 · 7 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
Hire number five asks about ESOPs. Set the scheme up before the round — it is cheaper, cleaner, and entirely within your control while the cap table is still simple.
October 2026 · 6 min read
Corporate Affairs
Four meetings a year. Properly minuted. That is the whole discipline — and it is the cheapest insurance in your compliance budget.
October 2026 · 5 min read
FEMA & Regulatory Matters
Foreign investment compliance is not about permission — most sectors are automatic. It is about reporting, on time, in the right form. Get it right and FEMA is invisible.
October 2026 · 7 min read
Corporate Affairs
The statutory audit checks the engine. The secretarial audit checks the paperwork. Any serious buyer inspects both — here is what each report actually tells an investor.
October 2026 · 6 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
Grant to exercise to exit — the full journey of an employee stock option, with the compliance tripwires at each stage that catch even careful companies.
October 2026 · 8 min read
Corporate Finance
Before the DRHP, before the roadshow — your books go under a microscope. Here is the checklist bankers run through, and the gaps that delay listings.
October 2026 · 7 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
Not every profitable company is listing-ready. The net-worth, track-record, and governance tests — and the honest gaps to fix first.
October 2026 · 6 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
₹1.5-3 crore all-in, 9-12 months, and the three things bankers don't mention — from practitioners who prepare companies for listing.
October 2026 · 9 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
The headline says ₹200 crore. The bank balance says something else. Valuation, diligence, earnouts, and where founders lose money.
October 2026 · 8 min read
Corporate Affairs
Section 204, MR-3, the qualifications we see most — and how to turn the annual ordeal into a non-event. From practicing company secretaries.
October 2026 · 7 min read
Corporate Finance
We sell this service, so expect honesty: when it makes sense, when it doesn't, what it costs, and how to choose one.
October 2026 · 7 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
Underwater options, tax surprises, 30-day exercise windows — the five mistakes that turn your retention tool into expensive wallpaper.
October 2026 · 8 min read
Transactions & Restructuring
Mergers, demergers, slump sales — the routes, the tax traps, NCLT timelines, and why starting late is the costliest mistake.
October 2026 · 8 min read