Transaction Structuring

Integral to transaction planning is conceptualising a structure, which optimises investment decision and return repatriation from a fiscal perspective, legally compliant and adaptable to ensure smooth transaction implementation and management.

Rapidly changing regulatory environment unloading legacy controls but factoring new cautions, complex and evolving central and state taxes of multiple nature, increasing awareness and impact of Transfer Pricing laws lends critical importance to transaction planning in India.

Our teams understand fiscal and regulatory matters, both cross-border and domestic, on a time-sensitive basis and work with clients in creating and selecting optimal structures to provide the right backdrop to transaction implementation.

Our approach to transaction structuring, includes:

• Understanding commercial rationale and freezing broad deal parameters to address key buy and sell side considerations;
• Identifying key tax and regulatory issues (Corporate Tax, Indirect Tax, Stamp Duty, Foreign Investment Norms, Corporate Law, Securities Law including Takeover Code, etc)
• Exploring possibilities of synergy between business rationale and fiscal/regulatory necessities, through:
  • Modeling various investment structures, including cross-border alternatives, choice of jurisdiction, factoring fiscal and compliance consequences
  • Analysing alternative modes for restructuring of investee company/ transfer of business, consolidation of businesses, etc (pre- or post-deal)

We work towards achieving an efficient and novel transaction and investment, bearing testimony to exhaustive research, experience of implementation and threadbare discussion to various aspects of the deal.