India market entry and management consultancy

Entity structuring — whether you need an Indian entity at all, and if so what form it should take. Cross-border service agreements — how work and payment flow between your company and an Indian counterparty. FEMA-compliant remittances — moving money in and out of India within the Foreign Exchange Management Act framework. Vendor and banking setup — the practical apparatus of operating here.

These questions tend to arrive together, usually when a company is somewhere between hiring its first person in India and deciding to make the operation permanent.

The most common version of this conversation starts with a team already working in India through our Employer of Record service, and a decision that it is time to bring them in-house.

We advise on incorporation and transition employees from our EOR to your new entity, with the employment records, payroll registers and statutory filings that go with them. Having run the payroll, we know what has to move.

We give this advice as a company that does the thing it is advising on. Aether Blue Associates is a registered Indian private limited company with EPF, ESI, TDS, GST and Professional Tax registrations, invoicing US clients in USD as a zero-rated exporter of services under LUT.

So the cross-border mechanics, the remittance framework and the banking arrangements are not theory here. They are how we get paid.