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Compliance as strategy,not as paperwork.

An integrated corporate compliance and legal advisory practice of Company Secretaries in Practice, working for institutions that answer to members, boards, investors and regulators at once.

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  • ICSI Code of Conduct
  • DPDP Act 2023 aligned
  • No contingency billing

Statutory Pulse

Private limited company · next deadlines

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Assumes the AGM is held on 30 September.

Full FY roadmap

02Where we sit

What a Practising Company Secretary signs, and how we work alongside counsel.

A Practising Company Secretary is a statutory professional under Indian company law, and certain audits and certificates can only be signed by one. That is where we sit: beside the general counsel, the CFO and the law firm, looking after the statutory record.

Around the board table

who owns what

  • General CounselLegal strategy, contracts and disputes
  • CFOAccounts, tax, treasury and audit
  • Law firmTransactions, litigation and opinions
  • Practising CSThe statutory record, and the sign-offs the law reserves to a PCSSigns

Statutory sign-offs

05 statutory sign-offs

  1. An independent audit of the company's compliance with the Companies Act, SEBI regulations, FEMA, the Secretarial Standards and the laws specific to its sector. It is reported in Form MR-3 and annexed to the Board's report, and the Board must explain every qualification.

    Applies to
    Every listed company; public companies with paid-up capital of ₹50 crore or more, or turnover of ₹250 crore or more; and any company with bank or financial-institution borrowings of ₹100 crore or more.
    What you receive
    MR-3 report, an observation tracker and a management-response note for the Board.

With law firms & larger practices

  • Support on NBFC, RBI and listed-company matters, after a conflict check
  • Pan-India filings and certifications on matters where you advise
  • Retained secretarial support for your clients' boards and committees
  • Transaction diligence and disclosure schedules to your closing timetable

With in-house teams

As an extension of the company secretary's or CFO's office: one calendar, one record, and one monthly status a board can read.

One calendarOne recordOne status
I see compliance not as an obligation but as the foundation on which corporate trust is built.

Prerna Garg · Founding Partner

03What we do

One practice. Three pillars. Every obligation on one calendar.

Secretarial, regulatory and legal advisory under one engagement, from incorporation to inspection, for entities that range from first-round startups to listed groups.

12 service lines, one principal-led team, and direct access to the founding partner on every mandate.

Pillar 01

Governance & Compliance

The statutory backbone of every entity we serve.

Our core practice is the statutory life-cycle of a company: forming it correctly, running its meetings and records to Secretarial Standards, filing on time, and being able to prove all of it when an auditor, investor or regulator asks.

Companies Act, 2013SS-1 & SS-2MCA V3XBRL

How we work

  • Deadlines tracked on an entity-wise calendar ahead of the due date.
  • Board packs and minutes drafted to SS-1 and SS-2.
  • Registers and filings kept ready for audit and diligence.
01.1

Secretarial Compliance & Annual Filings

Incorporation, MCA and XBRL filings, a live compliance calendar, and conversions.

  • Private Limited, LLP, OPC, Section 8, JVs and wholly owned subsidiaries
  • MGT-7 / 7A, AOC-4, DPT-3, MSME-1, BEN-2 and full XBRL compliance
  • LLP → Private and Private → Public conversions
SPICe+AOC-4 XBRLMGT-7DPT-3
01.2

Secretarial Audit & Due Diligence

Section 204 audits, legal and transaction diligence, and the ASCR under SEBI LODR.

  • Section 204 audits across the Companies Act, SEBI, FEMA and sector laws
  • Legal DD: records, FEMA filings, labour, IP, contracts and litigation
  • Transaction red-flag reports and disclosure schedules
MR-3Reg. 24AMGT-8Red-flag
01.3

Trust, Society & Section 8 Entities

Registration, 12A / 80G (now s.332 / s.354), CSR-1, governing-body changes and annual filings.

  • Section 8 companies, Societies and Trusts: registration and licence conditions
  • Income-tax registration and 80G approval, and CSR-1 registration
  • Governing-body elections, bye-law amendments and annual filings
Section 8s.332 / s.354CSR-1RoS
01.4

Corporate Legal Drafting

Resolutions, charter documents, agreements, policies and board documentation.

  • Board and shareholder resolutions, notices and explanatory statements
  • MoA / AoA and LLP agreements, alterations and restatements
  • Statutory policies mapped to applicability
ResolutionsMoA / AoAPoliciesBoard packs

What we run for every group company

The institution and its group, one mandate.

See the FY calendar
Meetings
Four board meetings a year, the AGM within six months, all to SS-1 and SS-2.
Records
Minutes within 30 days; registers of members, directors, charges and beneficial owners.
Annual filings
AOC-4 with CSR-2 where it applies, MGT-7 / 7A, DPT-3, MSME-1, and triennial DIR-3 KYC.
Event-based
DIR-12, PAS-3, SH-7, INC-22, MGT-14, CHG-1 / 4 and BEN-2 as events occur.

04India entity management

One accountable point for your Indian entity.

For a group headquartered elsewhere, the Indian subsidiary is one line in a global entity register and a full statutory life of its own. We run that life to the group's reporting rhythm, so the parent's secretariat sees one calendar, one record and one contact.

Built for foreign parents and multinational general counsel

Group headquarters sends capital and approvals to the India entity; the India entity returns a monthly status, board pack and RBI filings.Capital · approvals · group policiesMonthly status · board pack · FC-GPR / FLAGroup HQSecretariatIndia entityWOS · Branch · LOG PRERNA & CO.

The four-stage lifecycle

01 · Set-up

Stand the entity up correctly

Wholly owned subsidiary, branch or liaison office, sectoral-cap and approval-route checks, bank account and registrations.

  • Entry vehicle: wholly owned subsidiary, joint venture, branch office or liaison office
  • Sectoral cap, entry route and Press Note 3 (2020) checks before capital moves
  • Incorporation through SPICe+, with PAN, TAN, GST registration and the bank account
  • Resident director, first board meeting, first auditor and statutory registers

Key filings

SPICe+AGILE-PRO-SINC-20AFC-GPR

What HQ receives

A set-up memo, the constitutional documents and a day-one statutory calendar.

One calendarOne recordOne contact

05The compliance calendar

A year in a company. Every deadline, one view.

What a financial year looks like under the Companies Act, 2013, SEBI LODR, RBI directions and the not-for-profit laws. Filter by entity type, hover for the penalty, and export the dates. The live calendar for each client is maintained by G Prerna & Co.

Next deadline

  • Board & meetings
  • MCA / ROC
  • FEMA / RBI FIRMS
  • GP practice step

Private companies under the Companies Act, 2013, including foreign-owned subsidiaries.

Q1 · Board meeting

April

3 obligations · Private Limited

Always on · Private Limited

  • Board meetings: at least four a year, never more than 120 days apart (Section 173, SS-1).
  • Event-based filings within 30 days (DIR-12, MGT-14, SH-7, CHG-1); PAS-3 within 15 days of an allotment.
  • Minutes signed within 30 days; statutory registers kept current.
  • Director contact-detail changes via DIR-3 KYC-Web within 30 days.
  • Foreign investment: FC-GPR within 30 days of issue; FC-TRS within 60 days of a transfer.
Board & meetingsMBP-1 · DIR-8

First Board meeting of the financial year

First Board meeting of the year

Every director discloses their interests in MBP-1 and confirms they are not disqualified in DIR-8. A natural point to adopt the year's statutory calendar.

Annual

Sections 184(1) & 164(2), Companies Act, 2013; Rule 14, Companies (Appointment and Qualification of Directors) Rules, 2014

MCA / ROCMSME-1

MSME-1 half-yearly return (October–March)

30 April

Reports amounts due to micro and small enterprise suppliers beyond 45 days and payments made late during the half-year, with the reasons for each delay (revised July 2024).

Half-yearlyCompanies with MSE dues beyond 45 days

Section 405, Companies Act, 2013; Specified Companies (Furnishing of information about payment to MSE suppliers) Order, 2019

Board & meetings

CSR annual action plan

Start of the financial year

Where Section 135 applies, the CSR committee recommends and the Board approves the year's action plan. Last year's unspent amounts must also be transferred on time.

AnnualCompanies meeting Section 135 thresholds

Section 135, Companies Act, 2013; Rule 5(2), Companies (CSR Policy) Rules, 2014

Dates follow the Companies Act, 2013, SEBI, RBI and not-for-profit rules as reviewed in September 2026, including the triennial DIR-3 KYC cycle, CSR-2 filed with AOC-4, and the Income-tax Act, 2025 forms. Indicative dates assume an AGM on 30 September. This calendar is informational, not legal advice; the live calendar for each client is maintained by G Prerna & Co.

06Method & standards

How we work. Four stages, every assignment.

Every assignment runs through the same four stages, with a named partner at each one and a written status for the client sponsor.

  1. 01

    Scoping

    Conflict check, engagement letter, scope of work and a timeline agreed with the client sponsor.

    • Conflict check
    • Engagement letter
    • Timeline
  2. 02

    Diagnostic

    Document request list, gap analysis, regulatory mapping and identification of priority items.

    • Request list
    • Gap analysis
    • Regulatory map
  3. 03

    Execution

    Drafting, approvals, MCA and RBI filings and stakeholder coordination, with structured status reporting.

    • Drafting
    • Filings
    • Board reporting
  4. 04

    Closure

    Deliverable hand-over, board or committee briefing, an archive of records and a post-engagement review.

    • Hand-over
    • Record archive
    • Board briefing

Institutional standards

Quality, confidentiality and ethics.

Three commitments set out in every engagement letter.

Quality

Multi-level review and agreed timelines.

  • Multi-level review on every deliverable
  • Checklists mapped to the applicable law and Secretarial Standards
  • Timelines agreed per assignment in the engagement letter

Confidentiality

Compartmentalised matters, DPDP Act 2023 aligned.

  • Compartmentalised matter handling
  • Restricted-access record-keeping
  • Data handling aligned to the DPDP Act, 2023

Ethics

ICSI Code of Conduct, non-contingent billing.

  • Adherence to the ICSI Code of Conduct
  • Conflict checks at engagement intake
  • Transparent fees, no contingency billing

Working principles

Integrated practice

Secretarial, regulatory and legal advisory under one engagement.

Principal-led

A partner is named on every assignment and reviews its deliverables.

Confidentiality

Compartmentalised matter handling and conflict checks at intake.

Structured deliverables

Agreed timelines, written status reports and a record archive.

How we are engaged

Terms agreed upfront. Fees never contingent on outcome.

  • Retainer engagements

    For the statutory calendar: every recurring obligation, one monthly status.

  • Defined-scope assignments

    For transactions, applications, audits and diligence with an agreed scope.

  • Referred assignments

    For fellow Company Secretaries in Practice, as the ICSI framework permits.

07Nature of assignments

Assignments we handle, in sequence.

The nature of the work in each practice: what an assignment involves and the order it runs in. Client identities are never disclosed.

Confidentiality by design: compartmentalised matters, disciplined conflict checks.

01

India subsidiary · Foreign group

Set-up and ongoing compliance for the India subsidiary of a foreign group.

Incorporation of a wholly owned subsidiary, FDI reporting on the parent's investment, a board calendar aligned to the parent's quarter-ends, and a monthly compliance status for group headquarters.

  1. Incorporation
  2. FDI investment
  3. FC-GPR
  4. Board calendar
  5. Annual cycle
SPICe+FC-GPRFLASS-1 board calendarMonthly HQ status
02

Change in control · NBFC

Acquisition of an RBI-registered NBFC, from diligence to post-approval compliance.

Buyer-side diligence on the target's RBI and MCA record, the MoU, the change-in-control application to the RBI, the public notice, and setting up the compliance function after closing.

  1. Diligence
  2. MoU
  3. RBI application
  4. Public notice
  5. Closing
  6. Compliance set-up
Target diligenceChange-in-control applicationPublic noticeCompliance function
03

Venture funding round

Private placement of preference shares with a foreign lead investor.

CCPS instrument terms, the SHA and SSA, shareholder approvals, the PAS-4 offer and PAS-3 allotment, FC-GPR for the foreign investor, and an ESOP pool expansion in the same approval cycle.

  1. Instrument terms
  2. SHA / SSA
  3. EGM
  4. PAS-3
  5. FC-GPR
  6. ESOP pool
CCPSPAS-4PAS-3FC-GPRESOP pool expansion

Sectors

Sectors we work in.

Each sector brings its own regulator, filings and approval routes.

  • Pharmaceuticals

    Listed and unlisted pharma, contract manufacturers and R&D ventures.

  • Startups & venture

    Seed to Series-D ventures, founder agreements and ESOP design.

  • IPO-bound companies

    Pre-IPO restructuring, DRHP support and post-listing LODR set-up.

  • Technology & SaaS

    Software products, platform businesses and IP-led ventures.

  • BFSI & NBFC

    NBFCs, fintech, lending platforms and RBI-regulated entities.

  • Manufacturing

    Industrial, engineering and capital goods, domestic and foreign-owned.

  • E-commerce & D2C

    Marketplace operators, D2C brands and digital-first businesses.

  • Not-for-profit & MNC arms

    Societies, Trusts, Section 8 companies and India subsidiaries.

Regulators and forums we work before

  • MCA / ROC

    Ministry of Corporate Affairs & Registrar of Companies

  • RD

    Regional Director

  • RBI

    Reserve Bank of India

  • SEBI

    Securities and Exchange Board of India

  • RoS

    Registrar of Societies

  • TMR

    Trademarks Registry

08Leadership & team

Principal-led. On every mandate.

The partners and principal team, supported by 10+ professionals across company secretarial practice, law and investment banking.

Portrait of Prerna Garg

Prerna Garg

Founding Partner

  • Associate Member, ICSI
  • Law Graduate, University of Rajasthan

Prerna leads the firm with over a decade of post-qualification experience in corporate secretarial practice, legal due diligence and regulatory advisory. Her practice spans early-stage ventures, family-owned enterprises, listed entities and the India-arm operations of multinational corporations.

Service areas

  • Corporate legal advisory
  • Legal due diligence
  • Secretarial compliance
  • Legal drafting
  • FEMA & cross-border
“I see compliance not as an obligation but as the foundation on which corporate trust is built.”
years in practice
10+years in practice
associate member
ICSIassociate member
+91 87439 48006
Portrait of Gaurav Pandey

Gaurav Pandey

Associate Partner

  • Company Secretary (ICSI)

Gaurav's practice focuses on startup and growth-stage compliance. He works with founders and finance teams across incorporation, regulatory filings and fundraising compliance through successive funding rounds.

Service areas

  • Startup incorporation & structuring
  • ROC & MCA filings
  • Fundraising compliance
  • ESOP administration
  • FEMA reporting
“End-to-end compliance for startups, from incorporation through funding rounds to ongoing ROC, FEMA and ESOP obligations.”
company secretary
ICSIcompany secretary
+91 92649 67260
Portrait of Deepshikha Sharma

Deepshikha Sharma

Principal Associate · Head, NBFC & RBI

  • Company Secretary (ICSI)
  • Bachelor of Laws (LL.B)

Deepshikha heads the firm's NBFC & RBI service line. She is a qualified Company Secretary and law graduate with hands-on experience in NBFC and corporate compliance: RBI regulations, MCA and ROC filings, corporate law, regulatory applications, shareholding and management changes, and statutory documentation.

Service areas

  • NBFC & RBI compliance
  • CIMS & PRAVAAH
  • MCA & ROC filings
  • Regulatory applications
  • Statutory documentation
“Sound compliance is built one accurate filing and one well-documented decision at a time.”
service line head
NBFCservice line head
& CS (ICSI)
LL.B& CS (ICSI)
Portrait of Sarabjeet

Sarabjeet

Principal Advisor

  • Investment banking and startup advisory

Sarabjeet brings 13+ years in investment banking and startup growth advisory. He works with founders on fundraising collateral and deal structuring, alongside the firm's secretarial work on each round.

Service areas

  • Fundraising collateral
  • Deal structuring
  • Investor narrative
“Fundraising is not just about capital. It is about clarity, confidence and communication.”
years investment banking
13+years investment banking

Who we serve

Institutions that answer to many.

  • India subsidiaries of global groups
  • Growth-stage ventures and their investors
  • Listed and IPO-bound companies
  • NBFCs and RBI-regulated entities
  • Societies, Trusts and Section 8 companies
  • Family-owned enterprises