Korean Company SEZ unit in India | Setup in 40 Days | PoA-Based Incorporation

Client Snapshot Origin: South Korea headquartered company entering India for the first time Structure: Wholly-owned India subsidiary, incorporated within a Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Priority:Speed minimise the documentation, notarisation, apostille, and cross-border execution delays that typically slow down a foreign promoter's India incorporation The Challenge Every step of a standard India incorporation needs signatures from the actual promoters the SPICe+ forms, the MOA and AOA, board resolutions, KYC declarations. For a foreign promoter, each of those signed documents then usually needs notarisation and apostille in the home country before it's valid in India, and any correction or omission means repeating the whole cycle. For a Korea-based company, that's not a quick fix. Each round trip through a Korean notary and the apostille authority, followed by international courier to India, can add days or weeks per document and incorporation typically needs several. The company wanted its India SEZ entity operational fast, without the promoters personally executing (or re-executing) a long paper trail from Korea. A2's Approach Rather than routing every signature through Korea, we structured the incorporation around a Power of Attorney (PoA) granted by the individual promoters to a locally authorised representative in India.

Once executed, that single PoA let the India-based representative sign and file the majority of the incorporation and regulatory documents directly SPICe+ filings, declarations, and related registrations without sending each one back to Korea for a fresh signature, notarisation, and apostille. The cross-border documentation requirement collapsed from "most documents, repeatedly" to "one PoA, once."

Why this matters beyond the paperwork

Apostille and notarisation aren't just slow they're sequential. Every document has to clear the home-country authentication chain before it can be filed in India, and any document with an error means starting that chain over. A PoA structure moves the execution authority to India up front, so the incorporation timeline is governed by Indian filing processes, not by how quickly documents can shuttle between two countries.

The Result The India entity was incorporated in under 40 days fast enough that the company reached operational readiness in the SEZ well inside its planned market-entry window, at a lower administrative cost than a fully Korea executed process would have carried.

Key outcomes

• India entity incorporated in under 40 days
• Majority of incorporation documents executed locally in India via PoA
• Significant reduction in notarisation and apostille requirements
• Lower administrative costs and faster processing timelines
• Minimal cross-border delays from promoter approval through to business readiness

Why This Matters Beyond This Case The bottleneck here wasn't Indian bureaucracy it was the cross border document-authentication chain, which is the same friction point for any foreign promoter incorporating in India, regardless of home country. Structuring execution authority through a PoA before incorporation starts, rather than negotiating around apostille delays document by document, is what turned a process that commonly runs several months into one that closed in under six weeks.