Areas of service

Entity Establishment and Corporate Structuring
  • Incorporation and establishment of companies, LLPs, subsidiaries, branch offices, liaison offices and project offices, as permitted by law.
  • Assistance with constitutional documents, registered office, capital structure and initial corporate records.
  • Coordination of tax, regulatory, banking and other registrations through appropriately qualified professionals.
  • Corporate structuring implementation and entity set-up support for domestic and cross-border groups.
  • Post-incorporation readiness checklists and commencement-of-business support.
  • Project management for incorporation and establishment of companies in other jurisdictions.
Corporate Secretarial and Statutory Compliance
  • Maintenance of statutory registers, minute books, records and corporate databases.
  • Annual, periodic and event-based filings under applicable corporate and LLP laws.
  • Board, committee and shareholder meeting support, including notices, agendas, minutes and action trackers.
  • Director, key managerial personnel and authorised-signatory compliances.
  • Share issuance, transfer, transmission, allotment, buy-back, reduction and other capital-related corporate actions.
  • Beneficial ownership, related-party and other statutory disclosures.
  • Compliance calendars, alerts, responsibility matrices and completion tracking.
Governance Architecture and Board Support
  • Design and review of governance frameworks, committee structures and decision-making processes.
  • Delegation-of-authority and reserved-matters matrices.
  • Board and management information protocols.
  • Conflict-of-interest, related-party and disclosure processes.
  • Governance policy libraries and implementation support.
  • Tracking of board directions, management commitments and governance action items.
  • Board and committee effectiveness support, excluding services reserved for regulated professionals.
Corporate Compliance Assurance
  • Periodic review of the status and completeness of corporate filings, approvals, registers and records.
  • Exception-based reporting of overdue, incomplete, inconsistent or high-risk matters.
  • Compliance-status reports for boards, promoters, investors and parent companies.
  • Verification of closure of identified compliance gaps.
  • Compliance certification processes by responsible internal functions, where appropriate.
  • Annual or quarterly corporate-compliance assurance reviews.
Entity Health Checks
  • Comprehensive review of constitutional documents, ownership, capitalisation and corporate records.
  • Governance and Compliance Audits.
  • Review of directorships, authorisations, charges, securities and key registrations.
  • Identification of historical gaps, inconsistencies, expired registrations and potential defaults.
  • Green-amber-red risk rating and prioritised remediation roadmap.
  • Entity Health Reports for individual entities or entire corporate groups.
Transaction and Diligence Readiness
  • Corporate-record clean-up before investment, financing, restructuring, acquisition, sale or listing.
  • Capitalisation table, share certificate, dematerialisation and ownership-record reconciliation.
  • ESOP and employee-equity record review.
  • Review of historical corporate approvals and filings.
  • Virtual data-room organisation and document indexation.
  • Closing and post-closing corporate-action management.
  • Transaction-readiness status reports, appropriately qualified and not constituting a legal opinion or statutory audit.
Investor and Portfolio Governance Support
  • Portfolio-company compliance and governance monitoring.
  • Tracking of reserved matters, investor consents and information rights.
  • Board-observer and investor-reporting support.
  • Cap-table, dilution and corporate-action monitoring.
  • Founder and portfolio-company covenant trackers.
  • Periodic exception reports across portfolio entities.
  • Exit-readiness and institutionalisation reviews.
Multinational and Subsidiary Governance
  • India subsidiary governance and local corporate-administration support.
  • Coordination of parent and subsidiary approvals.
  • Localisation and implementation tracking of global governance policies.
  • Corporate reporting to regional or global headquarters.
  • Entity-management dashboards across multiple jurisdictions, with local advisers where required.
  • Support for restructuring, consolidation, dormancy and closure of entities.
  • Director and officer administration and corporate-record continuity.
Policy, Control and Implementation Assurance
  • Implementation support for codes of conduct and governance policies.
  • Conflict-of-interest and related-party transaction controls.
  • Delegation-of-authority and approval controls.
  • Whistle-blower, document-retention and corporate-record policies.
  • Anti-bribery, vendor-diligence, data-governance and responsible AI-use policy implementation tracking.
  • Periodic testing of whether adopted policies are operationalised and evidenced.
  • Exception, escalation and corrective-action reporting.
Governance Information and Reporting Systems
  • Board and management reporting templates.
  • Entity, compliance, licence and renewal dashboards.
  • Litigation, claims and material-obligation registers.
  • Contractual obligation and corporate-action trackers.
  • Governance action and remediation dashboards.
  • Periodic management certifications and escalation protocols.
  • Technology-enabled document and compliance workflows.
Governance Solutions for Listed Companies
  • Corporate governance advisory including board processes, committee structuring and governance best practices.
  • Advisory on sector-specific regulations and compliance framework with SEBI regulations.
  • Assistance with stock exchange filings and continuous disclosure obligations.
  • Regulatory review and compliance health checks for listed entities to identify gaps and mitigate risks.
Regulatory & Cross-Border Advisory
  • Advisory on inbound and outbound investment structures.
  • Transaction structuring and implementation support.
  • Regulatory approvals and liaison with authorities.
  • Repatriation, exit, and restructuring advisory.
  • Advising on compounding and regularisation under exchange control laws.
Corporate Restructuring and Exit Solutions
  • Advisory and end-to-end implementation support for mergers, amalgamations and demergers.
  • Structuring and execution support for intra-group re-organisations, holding company simplification and corporate restructuring initiatives.
  • Assistance with voluntary liquidation of solvent companies and LLPs, including coordination with insolvency professionals and regulatory authorities.
  • Assistance with closure of Liaison Offices, Branch Offices and Project Offices established in India, including RBI, AD Bank, Registrar of Companies and other regulatory compliance.
  • Cross-border restructuring support involving overseas subsidiaries, inbound and outbound re-organisations, and coordination with foreign legal and tax advisers.
Remediation and Regularisation
  • Preparation and management of remediation plans for historical defaults or documentation gaps.
  • Reconstruction and regularisation of corporate records.
  • Correction, resubmission and follow-up of filings.
  • Ratification and approval processes.
  • Coordination of compounding, adjudication or regulatory applications through appropriate legal professionals.
  • Closure tracking and verification of corrective actions.
  • Post-remediation controls to reduce recurrence.
Ongoing Governance and Assurance Retainers
  • Outsourced corporate governance and compliance office.
  • Quarterly governance and compliance review meetings.
  • Annual entity-health and governance-readiness assessments.
  • Helpdesk support for routine corporate-governance matters.
  • Board, promoter, investor or headquarters reporting packages.
  • Customised service-level commitments, escalation protocols and dashboards.
  • Integrated annual governance, compliance and assurance programmes.

Our approach focuses on ensuring regulatory compliance while supporting business agility and operational efficiency.

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Swift Governance and Assurance LLP (“Swift”) established in the year 2005, is an affiliate entity of Nishith Desai Associates — Legal & Tax Counseling Worldwide. We are a premier corporate compliance firm that caters to the needs and demands of our global clients. Our team comprises professionals with a prolific corporate, legal and secretarial compliance background. We aim to provide quick and pragmatic corporate solutions alongside high-quality compliances.