Share Transfer & Capital Alteration

Transferring shares in a private company is rarely as simple as signing a transfer deed. The articles often carry pre-emption rights and restrictions that must be honoured first. The transfer needs a properly executed and adequately stamped instrument, a board approval, and an entry in the register of members, and where the consideration touches valuation thresholds, a defensible valuation is essential to avoid tax and FEMA complications. Our team sequences each of these correctly, so the transfer holds up to scrutiny from a tax officer, a future buyer, or a disgruntled shareholder alike.

Capital alteration demands the same discipline at a larger scale. Whether you are increasing authorised capital, issuing fresh shares, allotting on a rights or preferential basis, converting instruments, or undertaking a buy-back or reduction, each route has its own approvals, its own forms, and its own statutory timeline. Law Mahaguru maps the route before any resolution is passed, drafts the board and shareholder resolutions, manages the valuations and the merchant-banker or registered-valuer inputs where required, and files the connected forms within their windows.

What our clients rely on is that we treat ownership as something that must survive examination, not merely be recorded today. We have repeatedly cleaned up transfers and allotments done casually elsewhere, where the absence of proper stamping or a missing approval surfaced during diligence and threatened a deal. Doing it right the first time costs a fraction of fixing it under pressure later.

We handle transfers between founders, transfers to and from investors, intra-group restructurings, gift and inheritance transfers, and the full range of capital changes, including the FEMA-compliant paperwork when a foreign party is involved. Each comes with attention to stamp duty, valuation, and the tax implications that a careless transfer can trigger.

Your capitalisation table is the legal record of who owns what, and every change to it deserves to be airtight. Law Mahaguru makes sure each one is. Tell us about the transfer or the capital change you have in mind, and we will execute it so cleanly that it never becomes a question later.