Consulting & Advisory

Consulting & Advisory

Business transformation, CFO advisory, and strategic counsel for India's most ambitious enterprises — combining 40 years of relationships with the analytical depth of a global advisory firm.

TRUSTED ACROSS
TechnologyFinancial ServicesHealthcareManufacturingConsumer
THE CHALLENGE LANDSCAPE

Why Consulting & Advisory
Matters Now

The challenges organisations face in this space are growing in complexity and urgency. Here is what is driving the conversation.

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01 / GOVERNANCE
India's largest mid-market companies are family-run. As they professionalise or seek PE investment, the gap between promoter governance and institutional expectations becomes a material risk and source of value destruction.
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02 / STRATEGIC
Multinationals consistently underestimate India's operating complexity — regulatory approvals, state-level variation, distribution economics, and the cost of mis-sequenced market entry.
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03 / OPERATIONAL
Most Indian mid-market CFOs are stretched between controllership, treasury, tax, and investor relations — with insufficient bandwidth for strategic finance. Virtual CFO capability is one of the highest-ROI advisory interventions available.
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04 / TECHNOLOGY
Over 70% of Indian enterprise digital transformation programs fail to achieve their stated objectives. The failure is rarely technical — it is governance, change management, and unclear business ownership.
OUR APPROACH

How We
Deliver

A structured methodology that ensures rigour, transparency, and measurable outcomes at every stage.

01

Strategic Diagnosis

We begin with an honest assessment of your actual strategic position — market, capability, capital, and governance. Not the position you would like to be in, but where you are.

02

Strategy Architecture

We work with your leadership to design a strategy that is simultaneously ambitious and executable — with clear choices, tradeoffs, and resource implications made explicit.

03

CFO & Finance Advisory

We provide strategic finance support — business partnering, financial modelling, capital allocation frameworks, and investor narrative construction — elevating the CFO function.

04

Transformation Program Design

We design transformation programs with execution built in — governance structures, change management plans, milestones, and accountability frameworks that improve delivery probability.

05

Implementation Support

We stay in the room through implementation — not just designing the strategy but helping manage the messy reality of organisational change.

WHAT WE DELIVER

Consulting & Advisory
Capabilities

Comprehensive solutions designed to address your most critical challenges and unlock lasting value.

01

Corporate Strategy

Market entry, business model design, portfolio strategy, competitive positioning, and strategic planning facilitation for boards and management teams.

02

CFO & Finance Advisory

Virtual CFO services, finance function transformation, business partnering, financial modelling, and capital structure advisory for mid-market companies.

03

Governance & Board Advisory

Board effectiveness, governance framework design, independent director support, promoter-institution alignment, and family business professionalisation.

04

India Market Entry

End-to-end market entry advisory for multinationals entering India — regulatory navigation, entity structuring, partner selection, and go-to-market design.

05

Business Transformation

Operating model redesign, digital strategy, process re-engineering, and large-scale transformation program governance for complex enterprises.

06

Performance Improvement

Cost rationalisation, revenue optimisation, working capital improvement, and operational efficiency programs — with measurable P&L impact.

REGULATORY CONTEXT

Standards &
Frameworks

Key regulations and standards that shape our consulting & advisory engagements.

REGULATIONAPPLICABLE TODEADLINE / FREQUENCYSTATUS
SEBI Corporate Governance (LODR)Listed companiesContinuousActive
Companies Act 2013 — Board NormsAll companiesOngoing complianceActive
RBI Fit & Proper — NBFC/Bank DirectorsBFSI board membersAppointment-basedActive
SEBI Related Party TransactionsListed entitiesBoard / shareholder approvalActive
FDI Policy — Sectoral ConditionsForeign-invested entitiesTransaction-basedActive
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