India Demat Pro
Full-stack India investment operations for foreign investors, from account setup through exit, handled end to end.
Book a callInvesting in an Indian private limited company as a foreign investor comes with a layer of operational and compliance requirements that is significant, highly specific, and easy to get wrong. Opening a demat account means jurisdiction-specific documentation, apostille and notarisation rules that change from country to country, and a multi-step process across banks, custodians, and depository participants. Physical share certificates have to be dematerialised before they can move. Off-market transfers and secondary sales run through sequential compliance steps with several parties in the chain. A Section 281 clearance stands between an investor and a clean transfer. And at exit, capital gains filing follows.
The stakeholders are many, the sequence matters, and the cost of a mistake tends to surface at the worst possible moment, when a transaction or an exit is already in motion and a missing step becomes the thing holding it up.
Why It Happens
India rewards attention paid early and becomes expensive the moment attention is paid late. Each step depends on the one before it, the rules are precise, and the work sits outside what most foreign investors and their usual advisors handle day to day. So it gets deferred, until a deadline arrives and the deferral turns into a scramble.
What Ready Looks Like
With India Demat Pro in place, your India positions are set up correctly, your holdings are in demat form, your transfers execute cleanly, and your exit compliance is handled on time. The India leg becomes the part of the structure you never have to think about under pressure, because someone has already owned every step of it.
What India Demat Pro Is
India Demat Pro is a fully managed, white-glove service covering the entire lifecycle of a foreign investor's participation in an Indian private company, from initial account setup through to exit and post-sale compliance. We coordinate every stakeholder, prepare every document, and own each step until it is done. You arrange your documents and sign where required. We handle everything else.
What’s Included
Demat account setup.
Opening a demat account as a foreign entity involves jurisdiction-specific documentation, apostille and notarisation requirements that vary by country, and a multi-step application across banks, custodians, and depository participants. We assess the investor's structure, prepare the complete documentation package, and coordinate directly with our banking and depository partners through to full account activation.
Share dematerialisation.
Physical share certificates must be converted to electronic form before they can be transferred or traded. We manage the entire process, from preparation and submission through liaison with the issuing company, registrar coordination, and final confirmation. The investor chases no one. We own it until it is done.
Share transfer and sale transactions.
Off-market transfers and secondary sales involve sequential compliance steps, multiple coordinating parties, and documentation that has to be executed correctly at every stage. We run the transaction end to end so nothing is missed and nothing stalls.
Section 281 NOC certificate.
A Section 281 clearance is often required before a transfer or sale can proceed cleanly. We obtain it as part of the transaction, so it is in hand when it is needed instead of becoming a last-minute blocker.
Income tax return filing for capital gains on exit.
When an investor exits, capital gains filing follows. We handle the post-sale tax compliance so the exit closes properly and nothing is left open behind it.
Track Record
- More than 200 demat accounts opened and managed.
- A 100 percent success rate for eligible clients.
- 30-plus large entities served.
- 11-plus countries covered.
- Growth that has been 100 percent referral-led to date.
Trusted by hundreds of global entities, including VersionOne, FJ Labs, AngelList, and Gaingels, and individual investors such as Gokul Rajaram.
Who It Is For
Funds, platforms, and foreign investors holding Indian private companies who need the operational and compliance lifecycle handled correctly and completely, especially where foreign entities in the structure make the sequence harder. For many funds, this is where Accounti first takes ownership, and where the relationship usually begins.
Where this fits: Getting the India records right often leads into running the wider portfolio's finance as one operation. See Global Portfolio Operations.
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