Advisory · Bengaluru, working across India
We get a company ready to list — its governance, board, audit committee and disclosures — before a merchant banker takes it to market. We do not manage the issue, and we do not advise investors. Read the box below before you read anything else.
A fixed-scope readiness assessment, before you spend on the issue
Four to six weeks. We go through the company the way a merchant banker’s due-diligence team will — board and committees, related-party transactions, internal financial controls, secretarial compliance, the material litigation and risk-factor record — and hand back a written gap list, in the order the gaps should be closed, with a realistic timeline to a draft offer document.
A first conversation is free and under NDA on request. Fees are fixed for the assessment and quoted in writing before any work starts.
Who this is for
Promoter-led companies, typically with ₹50–500 crore of revenue, that are twelve to thirty-six months from a main-board or SME-platform listing and have not yet appointed a merchant banker. Also companies that have appointed one and been told, in the first meeting, that the board and the governance record need work before a draft prospectus can be filed. That is the most common way we are introduced.
What listing preparation covers
Board and committees
- Board composition against the Listing Regulations: independent directors, woman director, the chair
- Audit, nomination and remuneration, stakeholder relationship and risk committees — constitution and charters
- Board evaluation, familiarisation and the record of meetings
- Identifying and inducting independent directors from the IICA databank
Governance record and disclosures
- Related-party transactions: policy, approvals, arm’s-length documentation
- Internal financial controls and the auditor’s observations over the last three years
- Secretarial compliance backlog and its clean-up
- Risk-factor, litigation and regulatory-history record in the form a prospectus needs
- Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting readiness
How the engagement runs
Weeks 1–2 — Diagnosis. Document review, interviews with the promoters, CFO and company secretary, and a board-composition map against the Listing Regulations.
Weeks 3–4 — The gap list. Every finding written up with the regulation it relates to, its severity for a listing, who owns the fix and how long it takes. Presented to the board.
Weeks 5–6 — The plan. A sequenced twelve-month readiness plan, and, if wanted, help choosing the merchant banker, legal counsel and auditors who will run the issue.
Afterwards — Implementation support. A monthly retainer to run the plan with your company secretary, until the merchant banker’s due diligence begins. Optional.
Who does the work
The engagement is led by the director of Epigenesis Edu Private Limited: an IIM alumnus, registered on the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs’ Independent Directors Databank with the proficiency assessment passed, who has taught capital-markets and financial-modelling courses and works with boards of small and mid-sized companies on governance. We are not chartered accountants or company secretaries; where the work needs one, we work alongside yours.
Request a conversation
Tell us roughly where the company is. We will reply within one working day with whether we think we can help, and what a first conversation would cover.
Prefer to talk first? Call +91 94973 24931, 10am–8pm Monday to Saturday, or message us on WhatsApp.
Epigenesis Edu Private Limited is not registered with SEBI as a merchant banker, investment adviser, research analyst or in any other capacity, and does not manage, underwrite or market public issues or advise any person on the purchase or sale of securities. The services described here are corporate advisory services to the company itself, provided in preparation for a listing that a SEBI-registered merchant banker will lead. Nothing on this page is an offer of securities or investment advice.