Eight areas of strategic and transactional advisory
This practice sits above day-to-day compliance — engaged when a business is setting direction, raising capital, executing a transaction, or dealing with a regulatory or public-sector counterparty. It draws on the same tax, legal, and valuation bench that runs our domestic and litigation practices.
Business Strategy & Transformation
Every business eventually faces the same set of hard questions — where to compete, how to win there, and what to change internally to make that possible. We work through those questions with management, then carry the answer down into an operating plan someone on the team can actually execute on Monday morning.
- Corporate and business-unit strategy formulation, including where-to-play and how-to-win decisions
- Digital and operating-model transformation roadmaps tied to a measurable business case
- Scenario planning and risk mapping for anticipated regulatory, market, or competitive shifts
- Strategy translation into functional plans — finance, operations, and organizational design aligned to the same direction
Corporate Growth Strategy
Growth ambitions are easy to state and hard to sequence. We turn "we want to grow" into a structured plan for new markets, new products, or new channels — with the milestones and metrics that tell you, quarter by quarter, whether the plan is actually working.
- Market entry and expansion assessment — new geographies, new customer segments, new channels
- Growth-stage capital planning, aligned with funding rounds or internal accrual-based expansion
- Competitive positioning and benchmarking against comparable businesses in the sector
- Growth governance — milestone tracking and course-correction reviews at agreed intervals
Corporate Finance Strategy & Distressed Asset Resolution
On one end, the capital structure and financing decisions that keep a growing business funded on the right terms. On the other, a structured resolution path for businesses or assets already under financial stress — two sides of the same discipline, brought together in one practice.
- Capital structure review — debt-equity mix, cost of capital, and refinancing options
- Fundraising strategy and lender/investor positioning for debt and equity raises
- Resolution planning for distressed assets, including restructuring proposals under the IBC framework where applicable
- Coordination with resolution professionals, lenders, and committees of creditors where a formal insolvency process is underway
M&A Advisory, Transaction & Integration
Deals succeed or fail long before signing, at the point where the target is chosen and the structure is set. This practice handles that strategic layer — identifying and shaping the right transaction — while our domestic M&A team carries it through execution, valuation, and NCLT filing.
- Acquisition strategy and target screening against defined strategic criteria
- Deal structuring options and negotiation support from the buy-side or sell-side
- Synergy assessment and post-merger integration planning across finance, operations, and people
- Divestiture and carve-out advisory for businesses exiting a non-core asset or division
Private Equity Advisory
We sit on both sides of the table across the investment cycle — helping businesses prepare to raise private capital, and helping investors evaluate, structure, and manage the position once it's theirs.
- Investment readiness assessment and data-room preparation ahead of a fundraise
- Commercial and financial due diligence support for prospective investors
- Deal structuring, term-sheet review, and shareholder agreement input alongside our legal practice
- Portfolio-company advisory on governance, reporting, and value-creation planning post-investment
IPO Readiness & Consulting
A public listing brings a level of scrutiny most private companies have never operated under. We close that gap well before the formal process starts, so the readiness work isn't happening under deadline pressure once bankers and regulators are already involved.
- IPO-readiness diagnostic — governance, financial reporting, and internal control gaps against listing requirements
- Financial statement remediation and restatement support to bring reporting up to the required standard
- Coordination with merchant bankers, legal counsel, and auditors through the DRHP and listing process
- Post-listing compliance framework design for continuing SEBI and stock-exchange obligations
Financial & Forensic Advisory
When a financial dispute, a suspected irregularity, or a shareholder disagreement needs more than an internal opinion, it needs an independent one that can survive scrutiny. That's the finding this practice is built to produce.
- Forensic review of financial records in cases of suspected fraud, misstatement, or diversion of funds
- Quantification of loss or damages for use in litigation, arbitration, or insurance claims
- Independent financial investigation on behalf of a board, audit committee, or investor
- Expert reports and testimony support, coordinated with our arbitration and legal practices
Government Advisory & Public Policy
Public-sector work runs on a different rulebook than private business — tender procedure, scheme guidelines, program reporting cycles. We advise businesses and institutions through that rulebook, and provide the project-management discipline that government-funded initiatives are held to.
- Project Monitoring Unit (PMU) support for government and donor-funded programs, including progress tracking and reporting
- Policy drafting and representation support on regulatory consultations and industry submissions
- Tender documentation, bid support, and compliance review for public-sector contracts
- Scheme monitoring and evaluation — tracking outcomes against a program's stated objectives for government or institutional clients
Built for decisions above the compliance layer
Growth-Stage Businesses
Companies raising capital, entering new markets, or evaluating an acquisition.
Investors & PE Funds
Due diligence, deal structuring, and portfolio-company advisory support.
Boards & Audit Committees
Independent forensic review and financial investigation when it's needed.
Government & Institutional Clients
PMU support, policy drafting, and scheme monitoring for public-sector programs.
Strategic advisory backed by the same execution bench
A growth strategy or a transaction rarely stays inside its own lane — it eventually touches tax structuring, contract drafting, regulatory filings, or a dispute. Because this practice sits inside the same firm as our domestic tax, legal, and arbitration teams, that handoff doesn't involve a referral to an outside advisor; the same firm carries the matter from strategy through to execution.