TRANSACTIONS TAX ADVISORY - MERGERS & ACQUSITIONS 

Mergers and Acquisitions and internal restructurings are increasingly becoming a norm for businesses seeking growth and efficiencies. Tax and regulatory issues play a vital role in ensuring the success of M&A and restructuring activities, both in a domestic as well as cross-border context. Specifically, in the context of first-generation owned businesses, restructuring of family holdings with a view to ensuring seamless and efficient succession, also assumes significance.

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We provide comprehensive solutions for all aspects of M&A and restructuring activities including due diligence, acquisitions, mergers, demergers, slump sale arrangement, restructuring of family holdings, joint ventures and other group restructurings.

The gamut of our services include:

1. Understanding the objectives of transaction/arrangement and advising on the alternate approaches as well as strategies from tax regulatory stand point

2. Assisting in strategizing transactions, closely working with management and their advisors to consummate the transaction/arrangement

3. Advising and assisting in obtaining opinion of legal or tax counsels, approvals or clarifications from tax or regulatory authorities so as to dispel any grey areas and get clarity in the matter

4. Assisting in achieving the desired arrangement or transaction through NCLT route or otherwise

5. Review of various documents, contacts, agreements from tax and regulatory stand point and closely working with your advisors in executing those documents to ensure completion of the transaction

6. Reviewing and assisting various documents and forms with tax and regulatory authorities to consummate the transaction/arrangement

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We also provide post-deal integration and compliance support, which comprises of end-to-end services.

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Integration of various stakeholders is a key to the success of any M & A transaction and integration could be in the form of alignment of policies and procedures, efficient organisation structure with well-defined roles and responsibilities without there being any overlap or duplication to achieve the desired efficiency, integration of various functions within the two organistions such as management team, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal and secretarial, etc. A Japanese and German approach is required to be adopted to the effective and timely implementation of the transaction is critical without hampering the business as usual.

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We at Artes extend complete post deal support comprising of drafting/vetting of required documentation, obtaining required tax and regulatory approvals, close monitoring of the implementation plan,  compliance with various applicable regulations, assignment/ amendment of various vendor contracts/agreements, employee contracts, insurance policies, government grants/subsidies, alignment of process, organisation structures, employment related policies, intimation to tax and regulatory authorities, communication to various stakeholders both internal and external, and many more. Our experienced professionals work seamlessly with Client as one team with a same rigor and focus so as to achieve the complete closure of the transaction in a planned manner.