FEMA Audit Checklist India: What Buyers and Investors Will Find
A foreign investor’s lawyers will ask for your FEMA file in the first week of due diligence. They want every FC-GPR acknowledgment, every valuation certificate and every FLA return since the first rupee of foreign money came in. If a filing is missing or a share was priced below fair value, the deal slows down....
Read More
Foreign Company Registration in India: Business Compliance Requirements for Foreign Companies
Foreign Company Registration in India runs on two parallel tracks that must move together. The corporate track sits with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and turns on the SPICe+ form, a resident director under Section 149(3) of the Companies Act 2013, and apostilled constituent documents. The exchange-control track sits with the Reserve Bank of India...
Read More
Can an Indian Company Legally Hire Someone Working from Outside India?
Here is something that is happening right now in hundreds of Indian companies — a founder in Bangalore hires a developer sitting in Toronto. A Delhi-based law firm onboards a paralegal working from Dubai. A Mumbai startup signs up a marketing manager who lives in London. It sounds simple. But legally? It is a minefield....
Read More