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.
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
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
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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.
01
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.
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.
02
Pillar 02
Transactions & Growth
The work that lets a group raise, reward and expand cleanly.
When a group prepares to raise capital, the secretarial record becomes the diligence file. We structure, execute and maintain it in step with the investor's closing timetable.
Sections 42 & 62FEMA NDI RulesSEBI SBEBTrade Marks Act
How we work
Conditions precedent mapped to corporate actions before signing.
Allotment, PAS-3 and FC-GPR filed inside the statutory windows.
A cap table and register that reconcile, every round.
02.1
Fundraising Structuring & Compliance
Equity, CCD, CCPS and convertible notes, from term sheet to PAS-3.
Instrument design, founder dilution, valuation caps and FEMA pricing
PAS-4 private placement offer letters and PAS-3 allotments
Term sheets, SHA and SSA to closing standard
CCPSPAS-4PAS-3SH-7
02.2
ESOP Advisory & Administration
Plan design, approvals, grants, vesting, exercise and liquidity events.
ESOP, RSU, SAR and sweat-equity plan design
Shareholder approvals and SEBI (SBEB) compliance
Grant letters, vesting, exercise and allotment
Sec. 62(1)(b)SBEBSH-6Vesting
02.3
Cross-Border Capital & FEMA
FDI / ODI reporting, FC-GPR, FC-TRS, FLA returns and compounding.
FC-GPR and FC-TRS on the RBI FIRMS portal
Downstream-investment compliance and annual FLA returns
ODI for outbound structures; compounding of contraventions
FC-GPRFC-TRSFLAODI
02.4
Intellectual Property
Trademark, copyright and design registration, licensing and IP diligence.
Trademark search, filing, examination replies and oppositions
Copyright and design registration
Assignments, licences and IP diligence for deals
Trade marksCopyrightDesignsLicensing
Ready for the round
1
Structure
Equity, CCD, CCPS and note design
Dilution, valuation caps, FEMA pricing
2
Execute
Approvals, PAS-4, PAS-3, SH-7
FC-GPR and post-closing reporting
3
Retain & reward
ESOP, RSU, SAR and sweat equity
Vesting, exercise and liquidity
Backed by our Principal Advisor
Sarabjeet
13+years in investment banking
Fundraising collateral
Deal structuring
Investor narrative
03
Pillar 03
Regulated & Listed
NBFC, RBI and capital-market compliance.
NBFCs, listed companies and IPO-bound groups file with regulators that read every submission closely. This part of the practice covers the inspections, applications and disclosures that go to the RBI, SEBI and the stock exchanges.
RBI Act, 1934SEBI LODRSEBI ICDRSEBI PIT
How we work
A return calendar by regulatory layer and category.
Inspection responses supported by an evidence pack.
Disclosures checked against the applicable regulation before filing.
03.1
NBFC & RBI Practice
CIMS returns, credit bureau and PRAVAAH filings, and inspection responses.
RBI returns through CIMS, by layer and category
Weekly credit-information reporting to all four credit bureaus
Inspection responses and fit-and-proper documentation
CIMSPRAVAAHCICSBR
Service line headDeepshikha Sharma
03.2
NBFC Acquisition Advisory
Target diligence, MoU, the change-in-control application and public notice.
Buyer-side diligence on the target's RBI and MCA record
Change-in-control application to the RBI
Public notice and post-approval compliance rebuild
Change in control26% / 30%Public notice
Service line headDeepshikha Sharma
03.3
IPO-Bound & Listed Entities
Pre-IPO restructuring, DRHP support, LODR set-up and Regulation 24A.
Pre-IPO restructuring and record regularisation
DRHP secretarial support and material documents
LODR set-up, insider-trading framework and ASCR
ICDRLODRPITReg. 24A
03.4
Board Advisory & Secretarial Support
Retained company-secretary support for boards and committees.
Agendas, packs and minutes to SS-1 and SS-2
Committee charters and board evaluations
Director on-boarding and familiarisation
SS-1SS-2MBP-1Evaluations
Service line head · NBFC & RBI
Deepshikha Sharma
Company Secretary · LL.B · Principal Associate
“Sound compliance is built one accurate filing and one well-documented decision at a time.”
Read by a regulator first
Reserve Bank of IndiaReturns, inspections, change in control
SEBI & stock exchangesLODR, PIT and Regulation 24A
MCA / Registrar of CompaniesEvery e-form, inside its window
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
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.
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.
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.
01
Scoping
Conflict check, engagement letter, scope of work and a timeline agreed with the client sponsor.
Conflict check
Engagement letter
Timeline
02
Diagnostic
Document request list, gap analysis, regulatory mapping and identification of priority items.
Request list
Gap analysis
Regulatory map
03
Execution
Drafting, approvals, MCA and RBI filings and stakeholder coordination, with structured status reporting.
Drafting
Filings
Board reporting
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.
Incorporation
FDI investment
FC-GPR
Board calendar
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.
Diligence
MoU
RBI application
Public notice
Closing
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.
Instrument terms
SHA / SSA
EGM
PAS-3
FC-GPR
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.
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.
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.”
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.”
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)
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.”