Corporate Advisory & Structuring

MSK & Co.’s Corporate Advisory and Structuring Services provide valuable insight into structuring options for your business, enabling you to enhance stakeholder value within the organisation. We have sector knowledge combined with specialist technical experience, offering you the right mix of technical, commercial and operational expertise for the unique challenges your business is facing.

We have a dedicated team of Chartered Accountants and company secretarial, legal professionals and who possess extensive experience in various corporate laws and commercial / legal documentation. We have a highly business oriented in approach and experience across sectors and the acumen to provide complete solutions for all corporate secretarial matters.

We provide end-to-end secretarial services for your business such as :

  • Incorporation of Companies - Public, Private, Nidhi, Producer, Non Profit Companies.
  • Incorporation of Limited Liability Partnerships under LLP ACT.
  • Conversion of LLPs/Partnership Firms into Companies and vice versa.
  • Arranging secretarial compliance certificate/statutory report.
  • Obtaining Director Identification Number and Digital Signature Certificate
  • Filing Annual Returns with the Registrar of Companies (ROC).
  • Organising Board and General Meetings.
  • Maintaining statutory registers, common seal, minutes books for the board and general meetings, and issue of share certificates.
  • Assisting in preparing notices, agendas, minutes, and resolutions of board meetings, and general meetings.
  • Filing periodical forms for matters relating to directors, capital structure, the shifting of the registered office, alterations in the memorandum, and articles of association.
  • Converting a Balance Sheet and a statement of profit & loss into extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) format and filing the same with the Registrar of Companies (ROC).
  • Ensuring compliance in matters of events including the closure of companies.
  • Reporting to RBI for receipt of foreign inward remittance (FDI)
  • Reporting to RBI on allotment of Shares to foreign investors
  • Filing of annual return on foreign assets and liabilities
  • Reporting for External Commercial Borrowing
  • Services relating to Overseas Direct Investment (ODI)
  • Representing before RBI for compounding under FEMA.

Corporate governance refers to a combination of laws, regulations, procedures, implicit rules and voluntary practices which help companies to perform efficiently and maximize long term value for shareholders and at the same time looking after the interests of other stakeholders like buyers, government, society at large etc. Lenders whether national or international, also look for them for taking exposure in any corporate. It is a function of transparency and fairness in operations and making proper disclosures.

We at MSK & Co. believe Corporate Governance provides the structure through which corporations set and pursue their objectives, while reflecting the context of the social, regulatory and market environment. We provide the following services that strive to achieve a high level of corporate governance:

  • Periodic monitoring through internal audit
  • Independent audit
  • Independent verification
  • Effective Supervision
  • Accountability
  • Sufficient number of Independent directors on the Board.
  • Formation of an independent audit committee for the board
  • Adequate disclosure and transparency in reports
  • Participation in Board Meetings

We offer corporate restructuring services to customers looking for inorganic growth through mergers, acquisitions, amalgamations, and arrangements.

  • Evaluate the feasibility and conduct the due diligence of the transactions below to assist in corporate restructuring.
  • Mergers and amalgamations.
  • Schemes of arrangement, reconstructions and demergers.
  • Acquisition and Divestments of shares, assets and businesses of private and public companies.
  • Leveraged buyouts.
  • Distressed transactions.
  • Restructuring of entities. It includes capital and debt restructuring, buy back of securities, and reduction of capital.
  • Assist in Joint ventures and foreign collaborations.
  • Advise on the takeover of companies.
  • Make arrangements to handle all the legal procedures in a corporate restructuring.
  • Facilitating draft amalgamation schemes and pre-merger proposals.
  • Determine the exchange ratio in a merger.
  • Advise on share purchase transactions or deals.
  • Facilitating draft terms of the joint venture like structure, nature, and jurisdiction of the joint venture.
  • Advise on and manage the takeover of companies as per the provisions of the Companies Act

We assist you in getting regulatory approvals and represent the company before the authorities such as the Registrar of Companies (ROC), the Regional Director (RD), the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) etc. We also liaise with regulatory authorities.

We provide the following company law services to banks and financial institutions:

  • Facilitating status and search report and corporate information reports.
  • Advise on loan documentation and stamp duty.
  • Advise on creation, modification, and satisfaction of charges on assets.
  • Advise lenders in safeguarding their interest consequent to a change in the borrower’s constitution including a change in management and ownership.
  • The issue of due diligence reports and certification as per the guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India for lending under a consortium or individuals banks.
  • Create documents and file e-forms for creation, modification and satisfaction of charges on the company’s assets with the Registrar of Companies.
  • Perform due diligence of client loans on behalf of banks.
  • Assist in getting approvals from the Regional Director for the delay in creating and filing charges.
  • Assist in getting approvals from the Regional Director for the rectification of charges.
  • Undertake charge management on behalf of the lenders.