Company Law and Secretarial Services

RSM Astute has a dedicated team of Company Secretaries and legal professionals, which possesses extensive experience in various corporate laws and commercial / legal documentation. The RSM Astute team is highly business oriented in its approach and has experience across industry and service verticals and has been established with the vision of providing a complete business solution for all corporate secretarial matters.

What We Do

RSM Astute’s Company Law and Commercial Documentation division provides the following key Company Law and Secretarial services:

General

• Advisory services on Corporate laws, SEBI, FEMA and other allied laws
• Advisory services on compliance of Listing Agreement and Corporate Governance code
• Advisory services on various labour laws
• Incorporation of new companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP) in India and abroad
• Providing assistance for mergers, amalgamations, joint ventures, absorption, IPO, Follow on Public Offering, ESOP structuring and external reconstruction schemes
• Corporate Secretarial services
• Advisory services on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) including registration of trademarks, royalty agreement, enforcement of IPRs etc.
• Secretarial Compliance audit
• Due Diligence services

• Registration of the New Company, Section 25 Company, Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP), Change of Name, Change of Objects, Change of status from Public Ltd to Private Ltd and vice a versa.
• Conversion of a Partnership Firm/ Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP) into a Company.
• Registration of Foreign Company (Branch Office/Liaison Office/Project Office)
• Assisting in making petitions to be filed with Company Law Board, Regional Director, Registrar of Companies.
• Assistance in shifting of registered office from State to another.
• Assisting in preparation of Minutes, Notices, Agenda & Resolutions for Board Meeting, Annual / Extra-Ordinary General Meeting & Committee Meetings.
• Assisting in preparation of various registers like Register of Member, Register of Transfer, Register of Charges, Register of Director, Register of related party transaction, etc.
• Liasioning with the office of Registrar of Companies, Regional Director and Company Law Board for obtaining various regulatory approvals
• Arranging Secretarial Compliance Certificate for Public, Private & Listed Companies.
• Assistance in procedural compliance required toward mergers, demergers, acquisition, amalgamations, take over, slump sale etc.
• Assisting in winding up/closure of companies in India.

• Assisting in compliance of various Listing Clauses under the Listing Agreement.
• Guiding on compliance of Clause- 49 of the Listing Agreement i.e. Corporate Governance.
• Quarterly/Half-Yearly/Yearly conducting Secretarial Audit of Listed Companies for ensuring Listing/SEBI compliances.

• Assisting in filing of various forms under Securities and Exchange Board of India (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 1997.
• Assisting in filing of various forms under Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 1992.
• Advising on various SEBI Regulations like SEBI Takeover Code, SEBI Insider Trading Regulations, SEBI (ICDR) Regulations, 2009, SEBI Portfolio Managers Regulations, SEBI Broker Regulations with respect to IPO, Public Issue, Right Issue, Bonus Issue, Preferential Allotment, QIP, Delisting etc.
• Assisting in obtaining various regulatory approvals from SEBI/BSE/NSE.
• Assisting in Delisting of Companies from Stock Exchanges under SEBI (Delisting of Equity Shares) Regulations, 2009

• Assisting in preparation & filing of various forms under Trademark, Copyrights & Patent Act.
• Assisting in Registration of a Trademark, Copyright & Patent.
• Assistance in drafting of related legal documentation for licensing or assigning of Intellectual property rights (IPRs) like trademark, technical know-how etc.

Advantage RSM Astute

• Extensive exposure to complex legal and corporate law issues
• Actively servicing a large number of Indian and multinational companies in matters of corporate advisory, taxation and accounting issues across various industries and service verticals.
• Dedicated team of personnel having expertise in the field of corporate and other commercial regulations including exchange control regulations, intellectual property rights law, other compliances vis-à-vis corporate governance, Securities and Exchange Board of India regulations etc and extensive experience in handling complex legal and secretarial issues.
• Access to global methodologies, subject expertise and best practices of RSM International.
• RSM Astute Consulting Group (along with its affiliates) together has been ranked as the 5th largest accounting and consulting group in India (International Accounting Bulletin - September 2010).
• Extensive experience in advisory, taxation and accounting matters across various industries and service verticals.
• Multi-disciplinary team of professionals comprising of Chartered Accountants, MBAs, Engineers, Company Secretaries, CISA / DISA, Cost Accountants and Law graduates.
• Indian personnel strength of over 800 people having expertise in diverse fields and Nation wide presence.