RBI Reporting & Filings
FEMA's reporting regime is unforgiving in a specific way: the obligations are simple, the deadlines are short, and the consequences of missing them attach permanently to the entity. FC-GPR within thirty days of allotment; FC-TRS within sixty days of a resident–non-resident transfer; the annual FLA return by mid-July; downstream intimations where applicable. Each filing needs valuation certificates, board documentation, and banking evidence assembled correctly — and each late or defective filing becomes a line item in every future diligence exercise, priced against you by people who did not cause it.
We run FEMA reporting as a standing discipline rather than a transaction afterthought. Filing obligations are identified the moment a corporate action is planned, documentation is commissioned in parallel with the action itself, and submissions go through the RBI's portals complete and on time. Just as importantly, we maintain the entity's cumulative FEMA file — every filing, acknowledgment, and certificate, organised and retrievable — because the file's real audience is the future: the auditor, the acquirer, the bank, and the next round's counsel.
What this covers
- FC-GPR filings on every allotment to foreign investors, with valuation and KYC documentation managed.
- FC-TRS filings on resident–non-resident transfers, coordinated between parties and banks.
- Annual FLA returns prepared from audited or provisional financials, filed by deadline.
- Event-based filings: downstream intimations, ESOP reporting, and convertible-note filings where applicable.
- The cumulative FEMA file: complete, organised, diligence-ready at all times.
Who needs this
Indian companies with foreign shareholders; foreign investors who need their portfolio's reporting handled reliably; and CFOs inheriting entities whose filing history nobody can fully reconstruct.
How we deliver
- Filing obligations identified at the corporate-action planning stage, not after execution.
- Documentation commissioned in parallel: valuations, KYC, and board papers ready at filing.
- Submissions tracked to acknowledgment, with the cumulative FEMA file maintained continuously.
Why A2 Consultants
Our filings arrive complete inside statutory windows because the process starts before the transaction does — and the FEMA file we maintain answers diligence questions in hours, which clients discover is worth more than the filings themselves.
Engagement & what to expect
Standing engagements run as a compliance service: corporate actions flagged at planning stage, documentation commissioned in parallel, filings submitted inside statutory windows, and the cumulative FEMA file maintained continuously. The annual FLA return runs as a calendared project each July. Transaction-linked engagements attach to funding rounds and transfers, delivering the FC-GPR or FC-TRS workstream complete. First engagements usually begin with a filing-history review — establishing what exists, what is missing, and what needs regularising — because the file we maintain going forward is only as good as the history beneath it.
Every filing is thirty minutes done on time and thirty days done late — we make sure it is always the former.