About Us

GIFTSON ABRAHAM AND CO, Company Secretaries, emerged in the month of January’ 2014 mainly focused on corporate laws, intellectual property laws, foreign exchange laws and limited aspects of income tax laws, registered as a practicing company secretaries firm with the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) and operates with immense knowledge and experience in dealing with matters relating to Company Law, Securities Laws, inbound and outbound Investment, Legal Due Diligence, Transaction documents, Joint Ventures, Foreign Collaborations, Technology Transfers, Mergers and Acquisitions, Trademarks and etc. and while the key offerings also include setting up compliances, approvals from all the government departments including approvals from the Registrar of Companies, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), Secretariat of Industrial Approvals (SIA), Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), approvals for establishment of 100% Export Oriented Units (EOU), approvals for establishment of units in the Special Economic Zones (SEZ), Foreign Exchange Regulations, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Real Estate, Retail, Trading, Non-banking finance companies and etc.

We are a technology-focused, customer-centric Company Secretaries consistently delivering quality solutions that exceed client expectations. We saw an opportunity and found that to be good, we realized that for too long the industry had been operating on old technology, resulting in an inferior service with limited access to data. Not to mention the excessive costs for clients. We saw the opportunity for change and we took it, building a flexible, modern, cloud-based technology to facilitate seamless data access backed by meaningful analytical capabilities.

We listen to our clients. We heard your need for ancillary professional services and searched for the best in the market to complement our end-to-end compliance management system. Our search was for not only the best service providers but also those who shared our vision to offer a customer service experience that is second-to-none. Our journey is only beginning. The Indian and international markets are going through fast-paced technological change. We are investing time and resources to capitalize on this once-in-a-generation change for processing share trades both locally and internationally.

Specializations:

  • Incorporation of foreign subsidiaries in India
  • Start-up recognition
  • End to end compliance management - Companies law
  • Mergers and acquisitions / take-overs
  • Trademark registrations / assignment / opposition / renewal & etc.
  • Investment analysis / fundraising consultancy
  • Shareholders / Share Subscription / investment agreements
  • Legal / Secretarial Due diligences
  • Cross border share transfers
  • Foreign investment in India
  • Overseas investment by Indian residents
  • Effectively submitting and managing the filing of returns / petitions with the Registrar of Companies, Regional Directors, NCLT, Reserve Bank of India and etc.
  • Legal opinions on the applicability of legal provisions / investment transactions and etc.

Presence

In this technology driven world, physical presence hasn’t been a bar in this internet connected world. Presently, we are headquartered at Chennai and possibly, we are soon launching offices at Mumbai, Bangalore, and United States of America and our associates are representing us in mostly all the major cities of India.