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Pravasi Desk
Independent Advisory · Est. 2021 · Ex-Big 4 Leadership
India · Worldwide
Tax, legal & finance for India's founders, VCs & incubators — and everything cross-border.
Advisory Monks Consulting is a cross-border tax, legal and finance advisory firm for founders, VCs, incubators and foreign companies operating between India and the world. Whether you're a Bengaluru founder raising your Series A, a VC managing portfolio compliance, an incubator backing a cohort of startups, or a business with cross-border ties to India — one independent advisory partnership handles the regulatory, tax, FEMA, valuation, and corporate work end-to-end.
Who we serve
Choose your starting point.
Most of our work sits in four areas. Pick the one that fits — each links straight to the relevant desks.
Founders & startups
Startups
Incorporation, fundraising, ESOPs, cap tables and India-side tax — with a clean flip path when you need one.
See the desks Investors & fundsVC firms
Portfolio compliance, legal and financial due diligence, M&A, valuation and embedded advisory across the book.
See the desks Incubators & acceleratorsIncubators
Section 8 frameworks, grant utilisation compliance, portfolio SHA templates and embedded legal counsel for cohorts.
See the desks Cross-borderCross-border
India entry and FEMA, DTAA across 90+ treaties, 15CA/CB, ODI and flip structuring, PFIC/GILTI for US persons.
See the desksOn a specific corridor? India ↔ US, UK, UAE or Singapore: read the corridor guides → · run the calculators →
The practice index
Thirteen desks. One ledger.
Staffed across desks, answerable to one partner — so structure, filings and numbers never drift apart.
For Founders & Startups
- 01 Startup Legal & Fundraising Incorporation, DPIIT Section 80-IAC, ESOP design, cap tables, SHA / SSA / CCD drafting, Rule 11UA valuation, fundraise readiness.
- 02 Founders Tax Desk Personal tax for founders and UHNIs. ESOP / RSU exercise, secondary & exit gains, ITR, HUF / trust architecture, cross-border holdings, estate planning.
- 03 Virtual CFO Services MIS, 13-week cash flow, compliance calendar ownership, financial modelling, board pack delivery, investor-ready financials for India and global clients.
- 04 Flip Structuring Indian startups going offshore. Delaware / Singapore / Cayman / IFSC / UAE jurisdiction selection, FEMA & ODI structuring, IP migration, post-flip ops.
For Investors, Funds & Incubators
- 05 VC & Investor Advisory Two-year legal & financial DD, investment agreement drafting, CP / CS tracking, portfolio compliance, exit and secondary documentation.
- 06 M&A Advisory Buy / sell DD, Rule 11UA valuation, SPA drafting, NCLT scheme of arrangement, CCI clearance, post-merger compliance and FC-TRS.
- 07 Valuation Advisory Valuation advisory, modelling and orchestration. Rule 11UA / 11UAA, ESOP Black-Scholes, M&A DCF, IBC / NCLT, Ind AS 113, fairness opinions and PPA. Credentialed reports issued via panel-empanelled IBBI Registered Valuers.
- 08 Incubator Desk Section 8 equity frameworks, grant utilisation certification, SHA templates, embedded legal counsel for incubator portfolios.
For Foreign Companies
- 09 India Entry & Foreign Co Market entry, WOS / LLP / BO, FDI & FEMA, GST, TP, MCA, labour law, end-to-end for foreign entities operating in India.
- 10 GCC India Advisory Global Capability Centre setup and ongoing operations: entity, TP, FEMA, payroll & ESOPs, Virtual CFO, multi-state GST, statutory and tax audit coordination.
- 11 Cross-Border Tax & Structuring DTAA analysis across 90+ treaties, 15CA / 15CB certification, ODI structuring, PFIC / GILTI for US persons, Section 195 TDS across global corridors.
Proof
Built to be right the first time.
Partner-led. Credentialed where it counts. Documented to survive a review years later. Most client work stays confidential by design — what follows is named with permission, anonymised where it isn't.
900+ clients served850+ startups advised13 practice desks · one partnership90+ DTAA treatiesIndependent · ex-Big 4 leadershipIBBI-registered empanelled valuers
AIC STPINext
AIC STPINext Initiatives
5 weeks
From engagement to an invoicing-ready Indian subsidiary for a US technology company — incorporation, FDI/FC-GPR, GST and bank account.
India EntryOne memo
A single India–US position — DTAA, Form 15CB and the GILTI question — signed off by both the client's auditor and US CPA.
Cross-Border TaxRead the case studies → · See selected engagements →
“An exceptional advisory team with a rare combination of technical depth, strategic thinking and practical execution — across taxation, regulatory compliance, investment structuring and startup advisory.”
“I've worked with the Advisory Monks Consulting team several times on legal and investment matters around startup funding. They're quick to understand the situation and back their advice with solid reasoning — a team you can genuinely trust, whether you're a founder or an investor.”
“The Advisory Monks Consulting team handled investment fundraising for my startup across multiple instruments — OCRD, CCD and equity — and was extremely professional, diligent and swift from start to end. I have no hesitation recommending them.”
The first ten days
From first call to first close.
A four-step onboarding designed to get you fully reconciled and reporting within ten business days. No extended discovery, no hourly billing, no surprises.
01 · Consult
A 20-minute diagnostic.
We look at your last filings, your current books, how your company is structured, and any open issues. You walk away with a clear written scope and a fixed monthly fee — no surprises later.
02 · Onboard
Books cleaned, data migrated.
We connect to Tally, Zoho Books, QuickBooks, or your bank feeds; clean up and reconcile past entries; set up your books properly; and give you a dashboard to track everything in one place.
03 · Deliver
Monthly close, on the 10th.
Every month by the 10th: reconciled books, profit & loss, balance sheet, and a report you can actually read — plus payroll handled. Growth and Institutional clients also get a cash forecast and board-ready numbers, on a published calendar.
04 · Optimise
Quarterly strategy review.
Every quarter we step back and look at the bigger picture: are you structured the right way, is there a better tax position available, and what should change before it costs you money.
Engagements
Retainer programmes, scoped to fit.
Project, monthly retainer or advisory retainer. Every engagement is partner-led; the brackets below are for orientation and the engagement letter fixes the scope.
Essentials
₹25,000 / month
Monthly compliance retainer for early-stage Indian businesses. Covers ROC, GST, TDS, payroll and book-keeping under one orchestrated calendar.
- Monthly book-keeping & bank reconciliation
- GST · TDS · advance tax filings
- Annual MCA / ROC compliance & director KYC
- Email-based partner access
From 3 months · Manager-led, partner-reviewed
Growth
₹50,000 / month
Compliance plus Virtual CFO, plus cross-border and corporate secretarial. For funded startups, foreign-owned subsidiaries, and scaling operations.
- Everything in Essentials
- Virtual CFO · MIS · 13-week cash flow
- FEMA · FC-GPR · 15CA / 15CB · ODI
- Multi-state GST · ITC · e-invoicing
- Corporate secretarial · board minutes · ESOP
- Quarterly partner review
From 6 months · Partner-led delivery
Institutional
₹1,00,000 / month
Embedded advisory partner for VC funds, GCCs, family offices, and institutional clients, across all thirteen practice areas with named senior advisor and priority response.
- Everything in Growth
- Portfolio compliance · investee SHA / SSA templates
- Transfer pricing · Form 3CEB · APA / Master File
- Cross-border · DTAA · PFIC / GILTI · flip structuring
- Valuation · Rule 11UA / 11UAA · IBBI reports
- Named partner · same-day response · board-level documentation
From 12 months · Named partner · priority access
Doesn't fit a tier? That's most of our work.
A flip-structuring memo for a Cayman-bound startup. A Form 13 LDC for an NRI selling property. A six-month diligence mandate for a VC fund. We scope these as bespoke retainers — fixed-fee where the work is defined, monthly where the relationship is ongoing — and come back with a scope, a fee and a timeline.
The firm
Independent advisory. Advisor-led, not signatory-led.
Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Noida, Advisory Monks Consulting (OPC) Private Limited brings ex-Big 4 leadership and 25+ years of combined practice to founders, foreign companies, NRIs and investors — without the layers or the conflicts of a Big Four practice or a signing CA firm. We design the structure and run the execution; credentialed deliverables (Form 3CEB, IBBI valuations, statutory signatures, foreign filings) are issued by professionals on our panel under separate engagement letters.
Common questions
Asked before engaging.
What does the monthly retainer include?
Every retainer is partner-led and shaped to the client. Retainers cover monthly close and management reporting, scheduled tax planning, and direct access to your engagement partner; higher-tier programmes add multi-jurisdiction compliance coordination, transfer pricing documentation, and embedded CFO work. India retainers cover the corresponding ROC, GST, TDS, FEMA, payroll and corporate secretarial cadence appropriate to the entity. Specific scope is documented in the engagement letter.
What is your firm structure?
Advisory Monks Consulting (OPC) Private Limited is an independent advisory firm headquartered in Noida, India, founded in 2021 and incorporated as Advisory Monks Consulting (OPC) Private Limited in January 2022. The firm carries ex-Big 4 leadership and 25+ years of combined practice. The partnership is backed by a vetted bench of empanelled licensed professionals — Chartered Accountants, IBBI-registered valuers, company secretaries and advocates — through whom credentialed deliverables (Form 3CEB, IBBI valuation reports, statutory sign-offs) are produced and signed. A single partner owns the strategy and runs the engagement end-to-end, while the signed, credentialed work is delivered within the firm's bench, with the capacity and continuity a deep team provides for multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction mandates. The precise scope of each deliverable is set out in the engagement letter.
Which jurisdictions do you cover?
Our India desk covers the full Indian regulatory perimeter: Companies Act, Income Tax, GST, FEMA, RBI, MCA, ICAI valuation standards, IBBI, NCLT, CCI. Our Global desk covers accounting, coordinated tax filings and Virtual CFO work for businesses operating in the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore and the UAE, with cross-border bridging into India for any of those corridors. We've navigated 90+ DTAA treaties for active engagements.
Do you handle cross-border situations across multiple jurisdictions?
Yes. India is the firm's home ground, and cross-border is where our practice runs deepest beyond it. We work across global corridors and have navigated 90+ DTAA treaties for active engagements. To illustrate the depth: India-US scope includes FBAR (FinCEN 114), FATCA, Forms 5471/5472, treaty positioning, transfer pricing under Section 92 / Section 482; India-UK and India-Singapore include corresponding treaty analysis, Section 195 withholding, Permanent Establishment / secondment structuring; India-UAE includes corporate tax (effective 9%), free-zone elections, and Pravasi-side residency planning. Other corridors (including but not limited to Canada, Australia, the EU, the Gulf and East Asia) follow the same pattern: treaty analysis, withholding, FEMA, and credentialed local-jurisdiction work coordinated via our panel.
How quickly can you onboard a new client?
Standard onboarding takes ten business days from countersigned engagement letter to first deliverable. For time-critical situations (board pack before a funding round, an open notice from a tax authority, an acquisition under signed term sheet) we run an accelerated track and surface that scope in the initial conversation. Most work starts within 48 hours of instruction confirmation.
Begin the conversation
Speak with a partner.
A 20-minute conversation to understand your situation, the jurisdictions involved, and whether we are the right fit. No commitment, fully confidential.
Phone · WhatsApp
Mon–Fri · 09:30–18:30 IST · hours by arrangement for US/UK clients.
Office
C-94B, Sector 19, Noida
Uttar Pradesh, India. In-person meetings by appointment; virtual sessions otherwise.