Start clean.
Stay fundable.
Investors don't fund ideas. They fund companies whose paperwork survives diligence.
Kamlesh Mishra & Associates (KMA) — Company Secretaries & Corporate Lawyers — takes startups from incorporation to Series A and beyond: DPIIT recognition, founder agreements, ESOPs, fundraise diligence, ROC compliance and FEMA. One firm, the full legal stack, zero surprises in the data room.
The founder's legal stack, in one place. Most startups stitch together a CA for accounts, a different CS for ROC, and a lawyer for founder agreements — then discover in diligence that none of them talked to each other. KMA runs company secretarial, corporate legal and compliance under one roof, so your cap table, board records and filings always tell the same story.
Four stages. One firm
through all of them.
Start from wherever you are. Each stage hands cleanly to the next.
Incorporate correctly
The foundation investors will inspect later. Entity choice, founder agreements, cap table setup, DPIIT recognition, initial ROC filings — done once, done right.
Raise with confidence
Diligence is where rounds are won or lost. ESOP schemes, shareholders' agreements, cap table hygiene, valuation support and a data room that answers questions before investors ask them.
Stay compliant quietly
The unglamorous work that keeps you fundable: board meetings investors actually respect, ROC filings that never miss, statutory registers that reconcile, payroll and GST handled.
Scale and exit well
Restructuring for growth, cross-border expansion, secondary transactions — and when the time comes, an IPO-ready governance backbone built over years, not months.
Check yourself before
investors do.
Entity comparator
Private Limited vs LLP vs OPC — five questions, one clear recommendation with reasoning.
Try it →ROC deadline calendar
Every MCA filing, every due date, every penalty — filtered by your company type.
Try it →IPO readiness scorecard
Twelve questions. A brutally honest score on how close you are to listing.
Try it →Straight answers.
From day one, even before it is mandatory. A CS keeps your cap table, board minutes, statutory registers and ROC filings clean from incorporation — which is exactly what investors check in diligence. Waiting until Series A to fix two years of paperwork costs far more than doing it right from the start.
DPIIT recognition certifies you as a startup (within 10 years of incorporation, turnover under ₹200 crore). It unlocks tax holidays, easier public procurement, faster patent examination and self-certification under labour laws. Most investors treat it as a basic hygiene check.
A private limited startup's baseline — ROC filings, statutory audit, board meetings, registers — typically runs ₹60,000 to ₹1.5 lakh a year through a professional firm, before transaction work like fundraise documentation or ESOPs. The penalty for skipping it is higher: ₹100 per day per filing, and a diligence red flag that can delay your round.
Yes. Every foreign investment into an Indian startup needs FC-GPR filing with the RBI within 30 days of share allotment, a valuation certificate, and proper documentation. Miss the window and you face compounding proceedings. We handle the full FEMA stack for cross-border rounds.
That is one of our most common engagements. We run a full secretarial and legal health check — registers, minutes, filings, cap table, founder agreements — fix the gaps, and hand you a diligence-ready data room. Most cleanups take 3–6 weeks depending on how far behind things are.
Your next round starts
with clean paperwork.
Tell us where you are — idea, incorporated, raising, scaling. We'll tell you exactly what needs attention, in one conversation.