Business advisory
Start-up and Unicorn Desk
It’s always exciting and challenging to start and grow your own new business. However, developing a strong business plan is critical to the success of any start-up business in these demanding times. Selecting the right business structure with a sound & future-ready business model is an art as much as it’s a science. In today’s complex tax and regulatory landscape around the globe (especially in India), it is critical to have a strong and future proof structure that is not only efficient from a tax and regulatory perspective for Investors but at the same time, the structure should be able to deliver future upside to Founders and even make the start-up IPO ready.
CAP Table Structuring
Businesses are trying to be more open about their ownership structures. With the rising number of strategic and financial investments in the Start-up space, structuring the cap table becomes a critical point for protecting Founders Interest. Few instances of structuring include:
- Buybacks / Capital Reductions / Bonus / Rights issue for structuring what was commercially agreed
- Alternate ownership structures;
- Structuring upside for Founders;
- Structuring ESOP pool and buyouts for Employees
Externalisation
We assist startups by creating a structure that will help them gain access to the overseas market wherein it can unlock its maximum potential, expand overseas and attract offshore funding. With SPACs coming in limelight, we can assist you on listing your companies in overseas markets:
- Externalizing the structure through cross-border mergers and acquisition structures;
- Setting up IHCs and jurisdictional analysis for the same
- Setting up a SPAC-suited structure;
- Inbound / Outbound mergers / demergers
Incentive Plans
We assist you in structuring, preparing, and implementing Management incentive plans which are in compliance with tax and regulatory perspectives
- Evaluating the features of various kinds of incentive plans to be implemented like SARs, ESOPs, ESOSs, Compensation arrangements etc
- Assistance in agreeing on the commercial terms of the Policy;
- Implementing the Policy Considering the relevant laws and regulations around the same.
