Whether you're a Bengaluru founder raising your Series A, an NRI selling property in Mumbai, a US parent setting up your India subsidiary, a family office restructuring its holdings, or a VC managing portfolio compliance, one independent advisory partnership handles the regulatory, tax, FEMA, valuation, and corporate work end-to-end. Founded with ex-Big 4 leadership and 25+ years of combined practice across India and globally.
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Thirteen practices, organised around who you are. Founders, investors, foreign companies, and the diaspora each get a dedicated path — one unified firm behind all of them.
From incorporation through fundraising, ESOPs, and the founder’s own tax position — the full legal and financial backend for Indian startups.
Incorporation, DPIIT Section 80-IAC, ESOP design, cap tables, SHA / SSA / CCD drafting, Rule 11UA valuation, fundraise readiness.
Personal tax for founders and UHNIs. ESOP / RSU exercise, secondary & exit gains, ITR, HUF / trust architecture, cross-border holdings, estate planning.
MIS, 13-week cash flow, compliance calendar ownership, financial modelling, board pack delivery, investor-ready financials for India and global clients.
Indian startups going offshore. Delaware / Singapore / Cayman / IFSC / UAE jurisdiction selection, FEMA & ODI structuring, IP migration, post-flip ops.
Term-sheet to exit: investor-side diligence, valuation, M&A, and institutional/incubator engagements.
Two-year legal & financial DD, investment agreement drafting, CP / CS tracking, portfolio compliance, exit and secondary documentation.
Buy / sell DD, Rule 11UA valuation, SPA drafting, NCLT scheme of arrangement, CCI clearance, post-merger compliance and FC-TRS.
Valuation advisory, modelling and orchestration. Rule 11UA / 11UAA, ESOP Black-Scholes, M&A DCF, IBC / NCLT, Ind AS 113, fairness opinions and PPA. Credentialed reports issued via panel-empanelled IBBI Registered Valuers.
Section 8 equity frameworks, grant utilisation certification, SHA templates, embedded legal counsel for incubator portfolios.
Entering or operating in India: entity setup, FEMA, GCC build-out, cross-border tax, and ongoing global accounting.
Market entry, WOS / LLP / BO, FDI & FEMA, GST, TP, MCA, labour law, end-to-end for foreign entities operating in India.
Global Capability Centre setup and ongoing operations: entity, TP, FEMA, payroll & ESOPs, Virtual CFO, multi-state GST, statutory and tax audit coordination.
DTAA analysis across 90+ treaties, 15CA / 15CB certification, ODI structuring, PFIC / GILTI for US persons, Section 195 TDS across global corridors.
Beyond India — accounting, tax preparation and Virtual CFO for businesses operating worldwide, across 90+ treaty jurisdictions.
Beyond India, our Global desk delivers monthly close, management reporting, and partner-led tax preparation for businesses operating worldwide. Tax returns are prepared by our team and signed by partners licensed in the relevant jurisdiction. To illustrate the depth: US 1040 / 1120 / 1065 with FBAR / FATCA, UK CT600 / VAT / PAYE, Singapore Form C-S / GST / ECI, UAE corporate tax / free-zone elections, plus corresponding work for other DTAA jurisdictions on engagement.
The Pravasi Desk — dedicated tax, FEMA, and repatriation advisory for non-resident Indians and the global diaspora.
For NRIs and the Indian diaspora. Form 13 LDC for property sales, RNOR optimisation, USD 1M repatriation, DTAA & FTC, NRI ITRs, estate planning.
Founders, funds, foreign parents, and family offices rely on Advisory Monks Consulting for work that has to be right the first time.
Every engagement is run by a partner — scoped, executed and signed off at the top, not handed down.
IBBI valuations, Form 3CEB, statutory signatures and foreign-jurisdiction filings are executed by credentialed professionals on our panel, under engagement.
Positions are built and papered to survive an Income-Tax or regulatory review years after the work is done.
Illustrative, anonymised engagements — representative of the work, not specific client disclosures.
Cash freed for an NRI on a ₹3 crore Mumbai flat via a Form 13 lower-deduction certificate — instead of a 12-month wait for a refund.
Pravasi DeskFrom engagement to an invoicing-ready Indian subsidiary for a US technology company — incorporation, FDI/FC-GPR, GST and bank account.
India EntryA single India–US position — DTAA, Form 15CB and the GILTI question — signed off by both the client's auditor and US CPA.
Cross-Border TaxSelected recommendations from founders, operators and institutions we have worked with — verbatim, via LinkedIn.
“Shamik handled investment fundraising for my startup across multiple instruments — OCRD, CCD and equity — and was extremely professional, diligent and swift from start to end. I have no hesitation recommending him for CA services.”
“An exceptional Chartered Accountant and advisor with a rare combination of technical depth, strategic thinking and practical execution — across taxation, regulatory compliance, investment structuring and startup advisory.”
“I've worked with Shamik several times on legal and investment matters around startup funding. He's quick to understand the situation and backs his advice with solid reasoning — someone you can genuinely trust, whether you're a founder or an investor.”
“Highly experienced in startup financial modelling and fund-raise consulting — he brings real depth and clarity to complex financial discussions, and consistently goes above and beyond to help.”
“Associated with Shamik for two years — prompt, thorough and quick to grasp nuanced situations. A genuine sounding board for founders, not just a dependable accountant.”
“Our partnership with Shamik and his team has continually exceeded our expectations. Their expertise and dedication across legal, regulatory and compliance domains have immensely benefited our startups.”
A four-step onboarding designed to get you fully reconciled and reporting within ten business days. No extended discovery, no hourly billing, no surprises.
We review your last filings, current books, entity structure, and any open issues. By the end you have a written scope and a fixed monthly retainer.
We connect to QuickBooks, Xero, Tally, or your bank feeds; reconcile prior periods; set up the chart of accounts; and stand up your dedicated client portal.
Reconciliations, P&L, balance sheet, management reporting, payroll coordination, and (for Advanced and Superior programmes) the forecast and board pack, on a published calendar.
Each quarter we re-run estimates, model planning scenarios, and surface structural opportunities: entity election, treaty positioning, transfer pricing alignment, succession structures.
Three ways to work with us — project, monthly retainer, or advisory retainer. Every engagement is partner-led and shaped to the client; the brackets below are for orientation. Actual scope is documented in the engagement letter. Custom retainers are available for any client whose situation doesn't match a tier.
A retained advisory relationship for businesses that have outgrown freelance bookkeeping and want a single advisor who knows the file.
A working CFO function for cross-border operations. We sit in your monthly leadership cadence and own the close, the management pack, and the planning conversations between board cycles.
An embedded advisory team for groups across multiple jurisdictions, with the regulatory complexity to match. A named partner, senior manager, and delivery team are assigned to your account.
Monthly compliance retainer for early-stage Indian businesses. Covers ROC, GST, TDS, payroll and book-keeping under one orchestrated calendar.
Compliance plus Virtual CFO, plus cross-border and corporate secretarial. For funded startups, foreign-owned subsidiaries, and scaling operations.
Embedded advisory partner for VC funds, GCCs, family offices, and institutional clients, across all twelve practice areas with named senior advisor and priority response.
A flip-structuring memo for a Cayman-bound startup. A Form 13 LDC for an NRI selling property. A six-month diligence-and-defence mandate for a VC fund. We scope these as bespoke retainers: fixed-fee where the work is defined, monthly where the relationship is ongoing. All custom adjustments are discussed case-by-case. There is no fixed framework; we listen to the situation, then come back with a scope, a fee, and a timeline that fits.
A small selection. Full case studies, references and audited engagement outcomes available on request during onboarding.
They rebuilt 14 months of messy QuickBooks in three weeks, filed our back returns, and gave us our first real cash forecast. We closed our Series A with their numbers in the data room.
The cross-border piece was the reason we hired them. India parent, US sub, founders on both sides. They run our 5471, our Form 3CEB, and our transfer pricing. One team, both jurisdictions.
Advisory Monks Consulting was founded in 2021 to bring institutional-grade rigour to founders, foreign companies, NRIs, and investors, without the scale, layers, or conflict-of-interest constraints that come with a Big Four practice or a traditional CA firm.
We are an independent consulting and advisory firm, registered as Advisory Monks Consulting (OPC) Private Limited and headquartered in Noida. The firm is co-founded and partner-led by Shamik Ukil and Akash Ukil, and carries ex-Big 4 leadership and 25+ years of combined practice across India and globally. The commercial DNA of the firm comes from that lineage. Our practice spans the full intersection of Indian regulatory law, cross-border tax structuring, and global accounting: twelve practice areas covering everything from India entry and FEMA to flip structuring, valuation advisory, and the Founders Tax Desk.
We are advisor-led, not signatory-led. We design strategy, structure deals, and orchestrate delivery; where engagements call for credentialed deliverables (Form 3CEB, IBBI valuation reports, statutory audit signature, foreign-jurisdiction tax filings), we engage the right professionals from our panel under separate engagement letters and coordinate the work end-to-end. This separation is deliberate. It lets us focus on the part that scales (structure, strategy, and execution oversight), without the conflict-of-interest constraints that come from doubling as the engaged auditor or signing CA.
Our work survives Big Four due diligence, institutional investor scrutiny, and regulatory review. Same partner, same team, every month, not a rotating cast of associates. Client documents flow through an encrypted portal with role-based access and audit trails. We do not commingle client files between engagements. Conflict-free. No bank affiliation, no VC relationship, no platform economics, no signing-firm capture.
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