Customized Solutions
Our team at Illume is well-equipped to assist you in navigating through the complex world of financial accounting, interpretation, compliance, and reporting. We understand that the regulatory landscape is constantly evolving, and staying up-to-date with the latest regulations is crucial for your business.
The key advantage of customized solutions is that they offer a tailored approach, taking into account the unique circumstances, preferences, or constraints of the client. This can lead to more efficient and optimized outcomes, as the solution is designed to precisely meet the needs of the situation. Our customized solutions are valuable for solving complex problems, optimizing processes, and providing individuals and organizations with an enhanced experience that caters to their specific needs and preferences.
Startups and Emerging Businesses
Our services for startups include helping them with business incorporation, establishing a legal and regulatory framework, developing business models and strategies and implementing efficient operational processes.
As startups progress and begin to scale, we assist with fundraising efforts, connecting them with potential investors and helping them prepare pitch decks and financial projections. We also provide guidance on valuation, negotiating term sheets, and securing the necessary funding for growth.
Our team of experts is experienced in assisting startups with various transactional requirements, such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, IP protection, licensing agreements, and other legal and financial transactions. We are committed to providing comprehensive support to startups throughout their entire lifecycle, ensuring that they have the necessary resources and guidance to succeed in the fast-paced and competitive business landscape.
Set-up
Entity incorporation including drafting of the constitution documents
Registrations – tax, business licenses, start-up registrations
IP or trade-mark registration and patent support
Initial secretarial compliances and regulatory compliances
Drafting of transaction, commercial and internal agreements and documents
Advising and reviewing compliances and approvals for related party transactions.
On-going services
Book keeping and accounting
Tax and regulatory advisory and compliance services
Secretarial compliances
Internal audits and MIS founders and investors
Virtual CFO services
Employee incentive plans
Structuring - ESOP / sweat equity / phantom rights etc
Documentation - scheme, contracts with employees, grant leers
Administration
Internal audits and MIS founders and investors
Virtual CFO services
Transaction support
Corporate finance and fund raise assistance
Financial modelling, forecasting, and budgeting
Valuation - business as well as regulatory valuations - tax, FEMA, and Cos Act
Due diligence – finance, tax, secretarial and legal
Drafting and review of transaction documents – iSAFE or SSA or SPA or SHA or founders’ agreements etc.
Transaction structuring and M&A including acquisitions and / or divestments of business or assets, mergers and / or demergers, corporate as well as cap-table restructuring, externalization / reverse flip, outbound investments, legal entity rationalisation etc.
Investment funds
We at Illume, provide highly customized services to AIFs ranging from set-up of entities, fund structuring, fund documentation, fund administration and investor onboarding, tax and regulatory services and compliance monitoring.
We are committed to providing exemplary service, expertise, and support to AIFs. We understand the unique challenges and opportunities in the alternative investment industry and strive to be a trusted partner in helping our clients achieve their objectives.
Fund set-up
Conceptualisation and advising on the fund structure in relation to the domestic as well as offshore funds
Structuring of the incentive plans for the manager and key personnel
Selection of the legal structure of the fund and fund manager entities
Tax and regulatory advisory in relation to various stakeholders
Setting up of entities as well as obtaining regulatory registrations
Drafting and review of the fund documents including private placement memorandum
On-going services for the fund and fund manager
Fund accounting services
Fund administration services comprising Investor onboarding and KYC, communication, and investor relations, IRR and NAV calculations, computation of distributions as per waterfall mechanism and carry, changes to the private placement memorandum (‘PPM’) etc.
Tax and regulatory compliance and advisory services
Portfolio monitoring services
Specialised services in relation preparation of the carry model, distribution waterfall model, handling winding up / liquidations etc.
Pre-transaction advisory services
Providing pre-transaction advisory service to the investment funds in relation to contemplated / proposed transactions encompassing advising on routes of investment – equity, debt, mezzanine, transaction structuring, capital structuring, exit and repatriation strategies, and overall tax and regulatory implications arising from the transaction.
Pre-transaction advisory services provide our clients with quick and incisive inputs on transaction aspects which assist them in making decision making in relation to day-to-day aspects in the operation of the investment fund.
Transaction support
Due diligence services – finance, tax, secretarial and legal
Valuation – business as well as regulatory valuations - tax, FEMA, and Cos Act
Structuring advisory for investment or divestments as well as implementation support including issue of tax opinions, negotiation on tax indemnity clauses
Drafting and review of the transaction documents
Transaction compliances – tax, regulatory (FEMA), secretarial
Obtaining NOC from tax departments and issue of withholding tax certificates, 281 certificates etc.
On-going support for portfolio companies
We provide comprehensive suite of on-going support for portfolio companies in the areas of accounting, tax, secretarial and regulatory advisory and compliance services as well as transaction support services including transaction structuring or M&A, corporate finance, valuation, and due diligence services.
Family and HNIs
We at Illume, provide highly customized services to families and HNIs ranging from succession planning, transaction support, specialized domestic and global professional services support. We offer fully integrated professional services with ‘client focus’ combined with ‘one strategy’.
Tax and regulatory services
Personal tax planning and advisory
Tax compliance, representation and litigation services
FEMA advisory, compliance and representation
Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing
Event based advisory and compliance services
CFO Services
Transaction support
Transaction structuring and implementation - business or group re-structuring, investments or divestments
Alignment of ownership, management, and governance
Migration abroad, dual / global residency and visas
Outbound investments - holding or investment companies overseas
Incentive structuring
Succession support
Wealth and estate planning - group structuring, succession vehicles, inter-se adjustment of holding, management and governance, trusts, HUFs, wills, and gift deeds
Setting up of lifetime or testamentary private trusts
Family constitution and governance including setting up governance models
Structuring and administration of family office
Family settlement, partition, and arrangements
Philanthropy versus CSR, charitable trusts versus section 8 companies
Transaction support
Due diligence services – finance, tax, secretarial and legal
Valuation – business as well as regulatory valuations - tax, FEMA, and Cos Act
Structuring advisory for investment or divestments as well as implementation support including issue of tax opinions, negotiation on tax indemnity clauses
Drafting and review of the transaction documents
Transaction compliances – tax, regulatory (FEMA), secretarial
Obtaining NOC from tax departments and issue of withholding tax certificates, 281 certificates etc.
Services to wealth managers
We provide extensive professional services to wealth managers to be able to double up on their service offerings and assistance to their client as well as providing curated services to clients.
