An SME IPO is won in the 12 to 24 months before the filing, not in the filing itself. We prepare the company — eligibility against SEBI's SME platform criteria, three years of restated financials, board and governance upgrades, cap-table cleanup, and a diligence room that survives a merchant banker's hardest questions. We work for the company and its promoters, never for the issue, and we stay independent of your merchant banker — so the advice stays yours.
You clear the profit thresholds but your books were never built for scrutiny — related-party tangles, revenue recognition gaps, provisions that won't hold. This is the most common starting point, and exactly what the restatement phase fixes.
You have a timeline and a banker in mind, but no dated preparation plan. We build the 12–24 month roadmap — what gets fixed, in what order, by when — and run it.
Your banker says you're ready. We verify independently — eligibility, gaps, and the honest go/no-go — because once the DRHP is filed, surprises are expensive.
Tested against SEBI's SME platform criteria — paid-up capital, profitability track record, net worth, leverage, demat holding. Every gap mapped red, amber, green, with an honest go or no-go on the timeline.
A dated plan: restatement, governance, cap-table, and diligence phases sequenced so each unlocks the next. You always know what happens when, and what it costs.
Three years of books restated to IPO standard — revenue recognition discipline, related-party cleanups, provisions that hold up, contingent liabilities disclosed. This is where most timelines are won or lost.
Board composition, audit and nomination-remuneration committees, independent directors, KMP appointments, and the policy stack a listed company needs — built before anyone asks for it.
Capital structure, promoter holding and lock-in planning, ESOP pool sizing, pre-IPO placement strategy. Structured once, structured right — a messy cap table is the most expensive thing to fix late.
We prepare the offer-document inputs and coordinate your SEBI-registered merchant banker, legal counsel, and auditors from your side of the table — owning the calendar through filing.
The 12-question readiness scorecard plus a deep-dive review. You get a written gap list and an honest timeline — twelve, eighteen, or twenty-four months.
Restatement, governance, and cap-table work executed in sequence. Fixed-fee phases; you approve each before the next begins.
Legal, financial, secretarial, and tax documentation assembled and verified — answering questions before bankers ask them.
DRHP coordination through listing, then your first year of listed-company compliance — quarterly filings, disclosures, board processes — handled.
Twelve to twenty-four months from a standing start, depending on restatement and governance gaps. Companies that start 'a few months before filing' are the ones whose timelines slip by a year. The scorecard gives you an honest twelve, eighteen, or twenty-four month read.
No. We prepare the company and coordinate the issue; your merchant banker leads the offer itself. That independence is the point — our advice stays yours, and we keep your side of the table honest.
The scorecard is free. The full diagnostic — a fixed-scope engagement ending in a dated remediation plan — is quoted after one conversation. Phases are fixed-fee, so cost tracks visible progress, not open-ended hours.
Post-issue paid-up capital of ₹25 crore or less means the SME route — BSE SME or NSE Emerge. Above that, the mainboard: different thresholds, different preparation.
Tell us where your company is headed. A partner — not a sales rep — will respond.
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