India has been liberalizing its foreign policies of late, so as to encourage foreign trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) pervasively across industries. As a result, India has been witnessing rampant setting up International business concerns through joint venture with Indian companies or forming a new company or through wholly owned subsidiaries. The relaxed foreign exchange controls have rendered trading a cake walk for the international companies. Rules and regulations have been also relaxed for the Indian companies who wish to trade abroad and raise money from the International market.

Lowered trade tariffs have also facilitated trade and encouraged the International companies to set up their business operations in India across the industries, including manufacturing, insurance, telecom, software, trading and so on. Indian company policies allow any company to be either a Private Limited Company or a public limited company.

Private companies are smaller in size constituting a maximum of 50 members at max, with minimum paid up capital of Rs.1,00,000/- Private companies are more restrictive than public limited company. It prohibits the issue of subscription of shares and debentures to general public. Private limited company also forbids acceptance of deposits from any other person except for its members, directors or their relatives. its members, directors or their relatives.

Public limited company starts from a minimum paid up capital of Rs.5,00,000/- with the minimum permissible strength of seven.

Our expert services in this connection are inclusive. We offer specialized help and guidance for developing a new business including, process of company formation, extent of investment, channel of investments and foreign exchange controls.
As we provide both financial and legal help to our client, we save them considerable time, money and efforts. We help them set up branch offices, project offices and liaison offices, wherever strategically important, with prior proper approval from the Reserve Bank of India.

The need to open a branch office arises when either the business concern handles export/ import of goods, renders professional or consultancy services, carries out research work, in which the parent company is engaged, promotes technical or financial collaborations between Indian companies and parent or overseas group company, represents the parent company in India and acts as buying/selling agents in India, renders services in Information Technology and development of software in India, renders technical support to the products supplied by the parent/group companies or the company is a Foreign airline/shipping Company.

Project offices are useful to execute specific projects in India and therefore set up on temporary basis. With general permission granted to foreign entities in India by the government, we set up efficient project offices for you in almost no time.

Liaison or representative offices in India can be set up only with prior permission from RBI. A liaison office is generally set up to collect information, promote export/ imports and facilitate technical/ financial collaborations. A Liaison office does not undertake any direct or indirect commercial activity.