FEMA, international tax and transfer pricing, handled properly.
Chartered accountants advising Indian and foreign businesses on RBI approvals, cross-border structuring, compounding and tax disputes.
Clients of the firm include
Earlier in his career, Srinivas advised teams at these companies while at EY, Grant Thornton, BMR Advisors and Prasad & Prasad.
Also IBM, Aurobindo Group, Alpla Group, Xander Group and Azbil Telstar Group.
Services
What we do.
Most of the work sits where Indian regulation meets a foreign entity: a US parent, a Singapore holding company, a subsidiary in Dubai or London.
FEMA and RBI matters
The core of the practice. Getting cross-border money movement right the first time, and putting it right when it was not.
- FDI and ODI structuring
- RBI approval-route applications
- Compounding of contraventions
- Representation before the RBI and the ED
- Cross-border ESOP frameworks
- Formal FEMA opinions
International tax
Structuring and disputes where an Indian entity has a foreign parent, subsidiary or counterparty.
- Inbound and outbound structuring
- Treaty positions and withholding
- Permanent establishment and project offices
- Litigation at the ITAT
Transfer pricing
Pricing intra-group arrangements so they hold up in an assessment.
- Documentation and benchmarking
- Intra-group agreements
- Assessments and appeals
Selected work
Recent assignments.
Landmark real estate stake acquisition
FEMA due diligence for a Singapore-based real estate fund acquiring a stake in a Singapore holding entity that owns an IT SEZ asset in Hyderabad. One of the largest India deals of 2024.
Real estate · INR 2,200 Crore

Srinivas Maddury
Managing Partner, Chartered Accountants
Srinivas is a chartered accountant. Before founding the firm he worked at Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton and BMR Advisors, which is now part of Deloitte Haskins & Sells.
He was a Partner at Prasad & Prasad, Chartered Accountants, where he ran the international taxation, transfer pricing and regulatory practice.
He has argued matters at the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal and at the Appellate Tribunal for Forfeited Property in FEMA and PMLA cases, and has represented clients before the Reserve Bank of India and the Directorate of Enforcement.
Every week he publishes FEMA Fridays on LinkedIn, a short note on one regulatory question.
“Srinivas is extremely diligent in his work and catches what other professionals with much more experience often miss.”
Anirudh Nishtala, Cofounder, Helex BioClients
Who we work with.
Startups with a foreign parent
US, Singapore or UAE holding companies with an Indian subsidiary.
Indian groups investing abroad
Outbound direct investment, ECB and overseas acquisitions.
Listed companies
Approval-route infusions, CIC questions and legacy contraventions.
NRIs, OCIs and family offices
Property, gifts, non-repatriable investments and family office setup.
Funds and investors
AIF downstream investment, SAFE notes and dual-entity structures.
Clients operate across the United States, Singapore, the UAE, the United Kingdom and Europe, and India.
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