We help our clients build effective business models to evaluate a new transaction, a new market opportunity or for other strategic purposes. Our team can help clients develop robust financial models to support key decisions and improve strategic outcomes.
Play a vital role as part of a team of specialists, working with people from varied disciplines to help large clients manage and execute high-profile transactions. You'll bring your analytical skills and real-world experience to diverse situations and unique problems. By appreciating your clients' overall objectives and understanding how transactions can influence an organization's success, you'll assess and navigate risks, always balancing these against potential rewards.
CFS is consistent with our global big bets for TAS, in particular, Transaction Strategy and Operations (TSO). It helps us to support our clients and build stronger relationships by bringing us into their conversations and the transaction life cycle earlier
We provide M&D advice to institutions engaging in mid-market transactions in the financial services sector. We help our clients assess the strategic fit of a business by evaluating potential synergies, project managing the transaction steps, assisting in negotiations and financial models, and measuring transaction implications.
We focus on helping financial services clients to increase value from their transactions through all stages of the deal cycle, whether realizing synergies, facilitating a smooth integration, maximizing deal returns or reducing operational risk.
We help client buyers and sellers make informed decisions and execute transactions while focusing on their capital agenda. Our focus is on helping our clients improve their outcomes.
We help our clients build effective business models to evaluate a new transaction, a new market opportunity or for other strategic purposes. Our team can help clients develop robust financial models to support key decisions and improve strategic outcomes.
During any transaction—whether it is an acquisition, disposal or merger—these questions often arise: What is the fair value? What maximum price should be paid? At the same time, various stakeholders and regulators are demanding greater transparency through fair value reporting and emphasising on the importance of valuations.
By bringing together professionals with extensive valuation, technical accounting, corporate finance, tax, strategy, and deep industry experience, we offer an integrated approach to help you measure, analyse and report on a broad range of valuation issues.
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Further, we provide independent valuations for financial reporting, compliances and dispute resolution
Value measurement
To comply with Indian tax, exchange control, SEBI, corporate and insolvency regulations which include:
DNA & Co. has been rated by respected independent research firms as a leader in end-to-end risk management services. Analysts cite, and member firm clients rely on, DNA’s advice and expertise; continuous access to an experienced team of governance, regulatory, and risk specialists; and the ability to deliver services wherever and whenever they are required.
The Regulatory and Compliance Program Services provided by DNA & Co. assist organizations in adapting to a changing regulatory environment. DNA & Co. member firm professionals, many of whom are former regulators or compliance professionals, provide three levels of engagement:
1. Strategy level - to help organizations anticipate and adapt to regulatory change.
2. Operational efficiency level - to achieve a cost-effective balance between compliance and risk.
3. Remediation level - in response to enforcement.
International studies have demonstrated that corporate social responsibility (CSR) aspects have a most significant, non-financial impact on the value of the company. All the stakeholders, from potential investors, local communities, customers, media, suppliers, business partners and employees of the company are equally interested in company’s efforts in this regard. Our teams bring together the combination of expertise covering a knowledge of key areas of CSR and associated disciplines with the skills of consultants and of auditors. Our practitioners have detailed local knowledge and experience of country legislation, industry practices, culture and stakeholders demands, and regularly participate in international teams serving international clients.
The secretarial audit checks compliance of various legislations including the Companies Act and other corporate and economic laws applicable to the company. A secretarial audit is a process to check the compliances made by a company under the Corporate Law and the other relevant laws, regulations, rules, and procedures, etc. Under this, the regulators monitor the companies for compliances as needed by the stated laws and processes.
Every company must comply with government rules, regulations, and laws. Any non-adherence to the compliances can be dicey for the company. Organizations need to conduct a periodical examination of their work to point out the errors and to maintain a strong compliance mechanism system in any organization.
It is maintained that periodical inspections of the records give the Authority the exact information of the company’s compliance policy.
A detailed secretarial audit helps:
There are multiple laws and regulations that would apply to different kind of business and entities. A Secretarial / Compliance due diligence involves checking of applicability of various laws and regulations and adherence to these. There are certain laws that apply to all Companies like Company law and labour laws whereas as some are sector specific such as FDI in retail, insurance businesses etc. In a due diligence each of these would be reviewed in detail. Secretarial DD services includes;
Legal Due Diligence Services in Civil Litigations - Involve conducting research on the proposed reliefs to be requested in a matter. After doing intensive research, we prepare a memorandum wherein we lay down the reasons for keeping or doing away with certain reliefs requested.
Corporate Due Diligence in Business Transactions – Involves analyzing transactions that involve sales and purchase of products or services or that involve mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships of corporate entities.
Legal Due Diligence in Intellectual Property – Involves analyzing the party's right to use and the right to stop others from using IP assets, reclaiming the mark, maximizing the mark and ensuring that it does not become generic.
Legal Due Diligence in Property Transactions – Commercial Due Diligence Services involves conducting searches on real estate property records to determine any liens on the property, any construction required on the property, determining compliance with local building codes.
(1) Every appeal or petition or application or caveat petition or objection or counter presented to the Tribunal shall be in English and in case it is in some other Indian language, it shall be accompanied by a copy translated in English and shall be fairly and legibly type written, lithographed or printed in double spacing on one side of standard petition paper with an inner margin of about four centimeter width on top and with a right margin of 2.5. cm, and left margin of 5 cm, duly paginated, indexed and stitched together in paper book form;
(2) The cause title shall state “Before the National Company Law Tribunal” and shall specify the Bench to which it is presented and also set out the proceedings or order of the authority against which it is preferred.
(3) Appeal or petition or application or counter or objections shall be divided into paragraphs and shall be numbered consecutively and each paragraph shall contain as nearly as may be, a separate fact or allegation or point.
(4) Where Saka or other dates are used, corresponding dates of Gregorian Calendar shall also be given.
(5) Full name, parentage, age, description of each party and address and in case a party sues or being sued in a representative character, shall also be set out at the beginning of the appeal or petition or application and need not be repeated in the subsequent proceedings in the same appeal or petition or application.
(6) The names of parties shall be numbered consecutively and a separate line should be allotted to the name and description of each party.
(7) These numbers shall not be changed and in the event of the death of a party during the pendency of the appeal or petition or matter, his legal heirs or representative, as the case may be, if more than one shall be shown by sub-numbers.
(8) Where fresh parties are brought in, they may be numbered consecutively in the particular category, in which they are brought in.
(9) Every proceeding shall state immediately after the cause title the provision of law under which it is preferred.
(10) Particulars to be set out in the address for service.- The address for service of summons shall be filed with every appeal or petition or application or caveat on behalf of a party and shall as far as possible contain the following items namely:-
(a) the name of the road, street, lane and Municipal Division or Ward, Municipal Door and other number of the house;
(b) the name of the town or village;
(c) the post office, postal district and PIN Code, and
(d) any other particulars necessary to locate and identify the addressee such as fax number, mobile number, valid e-mail address, if any.
Initialing alteration.- Every interlineations, eraser or correction or deletion in any appeal or petition or application or document shall be initialed by the party or his authorized representative presenting it.
(1) Every petition, application, caveat, interlocutory application, documents and appeal shall be presented in triplicate by the appellant or applicant or petitioner or respondent, as the case may be, in person or by his duly authorised representative or by an advocate duly appointed in this behalf in the prescribed form with stipulated fee at the filing counter and non-compliance of this may constitute a valid ground to refuse to entertain the same.
(2) Every petition or application or appeal may be accompanied by documents duly certified by the authorised representative or advocate filing the petition or application or appeal duly verified from the originals.
(3) All the documents filed in the Tribunal shall be accompanied by an index in triplicate containing their details and the amount of fee paid thereon.
(4) Sufficient number of copies of the appeal or petition or application shall also be filed for service on the opposite party as prescribed under these rules.
(5) In the pending matters, all applications shall be presented after serving copies thereof in advance on the opposite side or his authorised representative.
(6) The processing fee prescribed by these rules, with required number of envelopes of sufficient size and notice forms shall be filled alongwith memorandum of appeal.
Number of copies to be filed.- The appellant or petitioner or applicant or respondent shall file three authenticated copies of appeal or petition or application or counter or objections, as the case may be, and shall deliver one copy to each of the opposite party.
Lodging of caveat.- (1) Any person may lodge a caveat in triplicate in any appeal or petition or application that may be instituted before this Tribunal by paying the prescribed fee after forwarding a copy by registered post or serving the same on the expected petitioner or appellant and the caveat shall be in the form prescribed and contain such details and particulars or orders or directions, details of authority against whose orders or directions the appeal or petition or application is being instituted by the expected appellant or petitioner or applicant which full address for service on other side, so that the appeal or petition or application could be served before the appeal or petition or interim application is taken up: Provided, that the Tribunal may pass interim orders in case of urgency.
(2) The caveat shall remain valid for a period of ninety days from the date of its filing.
Endorsement and Verification.- (1) At the foot of every petition or appeal or pleading there shall appear the name and signature of the authorised representative.
(2) Every petition or appeal shall be signed and verified by the party concerned in the manner provided by these rules.
Translation of document.- (1) A document other than English language intended to be used in any proceeding before the Tribunal shall be received by the Registry accompanied by a copy in English, which is agreed to by both the parties or certified to be a true translated copy by authorized representative engaged on behalf of parties in the case or by any other advocate or authorized representative whether engaged in the case or not or if the advocate or authorized representative engaged in the case authenticates such certificate or prepared by a translator approved for the purpose by the Registrar on payment of such charges as he may order.
(2) Appeal or petition or other proceeding shall not be set down for hearing until and unless all parties confirm that all the documents filed on which they intend to rely are in English or have been translated into English and required number of copies are filed into Tribunal.
28. Endorsement and scrutiny of petition or appeal or document.-(1) The person in charge of the filing counter shall immediately on receipt of petition or appeal or application or document affix the date stamp of Tribunal thereon and also on the additional copies of the index and return the acknowledgement to the party and he shall also affix his initials on the stamp affixed on the first page of the copies and enter the particulars of all such documents in the register after daily filing and assign a diary number which shall be entered below the date stamp and thereafter cause it to be sent for scrutiny.
(2) If, on scrutiny, the appeal or petition or application or document is found to be defective, such document shall, after notice to the party, be returned for compliance and if there is a failure to comply within seven days from the date of return, the same shall be placed before the Registrar who may pass appropriate orders.
(3) The Registrar may for sufficient cause return the said document for rectification or amendment to the party filing the same, and for this purpose may allow to the party concerned such reasonable time as he may consider necessary or extend the time for compliance.
(4) Where the party fails to take any step for the removal of the defect within the time fixed for the same, the Registrar may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, decline to register the pleading or document.
Registration of proceedings admitted.- On admission of appeal or petition or caveat or application, the same shall be numbered and registered in the appropriate register maintained in this behalf and its number shall be entered therein.
Calling for records.- On the admission of appeal or petition or application the Registrar shall, if so directed by the Tribunal, call for the records relating to the proceedings from any adjudicating authority and retransmit the same.
Production of authorization for and on behalf of an association.- Where an appeal or application or petition or other proceeding purported to be instituted by or on behalf of an association, the person or persons who sign (s) or verify (ies) the same shall produce along with such application, for verification by the Registry, a true copy of the resolution of the association empowering such person(s) to do so: Provided that the Registrar may at any time call upon the party to produce such further materials as he deems fit for satisfying himself about due authorization:
Provided further that it shall set out the list of members for whose benefit the proceedings are instituted.
Interlocutory applications.- Every Interlocutory application for stay, direction, condonation of delay, exemption from production of copy of order appealed against or extension of time prayed for in pending matters shall be in prescribed form and the requirements prescribed in that behalf shall be complied with by the applicant, besides filing an affidavit supporting the application.
Procedure on production of defaced, torn or damaged documents.- When a document produced along with any pleading appears to be defaced, torn, or in any way damaged or otherwise its condition or appearance requires special notice, a mention regarding its condition and appearance shall be made by the party producing the same in the Index of such a pleading and the same shall be verified and initialed by the officer authorized to receive the same.
Meeting the onshore and offshore servicing demands that are inherent with long-term project financing.
We have a dedicated team of experienced loan and project finance professionals, with in-depth knowledge of dealing with a variety of lenders – from both the MLA/ECA arena and commercial lenders. We support the project before and after financial close.
Our services are tailored to meet your requirements. We specialise in providing:
Working with a broad range of project finance participants
We work with multiple players in the project finance market, representing decision makers from governments, project developers, sponsors, local and international investors who are active in the infrastructure space.
Continuously evolving regulations and laws can make it difficult for parties involved in project finance to comply with complex local governance and regulatory requirements. Having a partner to streamline these complexities, who knows how to navigate the challenges between the public and private sectors (PPP), and can do so globally, makes things a lot easier.
The services we typically offer in support of a project finance transaction include:
Choosing DNA & Co. project finance services provides a number of advantages.
Our project finance services are comprehensive, flexible and can be modified as your needs evolve. The scope of our services is tailored to meet your specifications and expectations.
What sets us apart is our ability to work at every stage of the project lifecycle across a variety of markets. We know what is critical to successfully administrate project financing. From the co-ordination of complex consents and waivers, to ensuring responsiveness to requests for information.