Management consultancy

India market entry and management consultancy

Practical advice for doing business with India: entity structuring, cross-border service agreements, FEMA-compliant remittances, vendor and banking setup.

The four areas we advise on

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.

When you decide you do
want your own entity

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.

Advice from an operator,
not an observer

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.

Pricing

On request

scoped to the engagement

Advisory work is scoped and quoted against what you need. Tell us the decision you are facing and we will tell you what it involves.

Scope

What's included

Entity structuring

Whether you need an Indian entity, and in what form

Included

Service agreements

Cross-border contracting between your company and India

Included

Remittances

FEMA-compliant movement of funds

Included

Vendor setup

Establishing local supplier arrangements

Included

Banking setup

Practical account and payment arrangements

Included

Advice, plus employee transition from our EOR

Incorporation

Included

Fit

Who it's for

Companies deciding whether an Indian entity is worth incorporating yet

Teams moving from an EOR arrangement to their own subsidiary

Finance leads structuring cross-border service agreements with India

Businesses setting up Indian vendor and banking arrangements

FAQ

Questions about
this service

Can you help if we later want our own Indian subsidiary?

Yes — we advise on incorporation and can transition employees from our EOR to your new entity seamlessly.

How do we pay you?

One consolidated monthly invoice in USD, covering salaries, statutory contributions and our service fee. As an exporter of services under LUT, our invoices carry no Indian GST.

What happens to our team if something happens to Aether Blue?

Your protection is contractual and practical. The MSA gives you a transition right: employees can be moved to another EOR or your own entity with full handover of employment records, payroll registers and statutory filings — all of which are shared with you monthly anyway, so you always hold a current copy. Employee dues (PF balances, funded gratuity) sit with government bodies and the insurer, not on our books, so they are protected independently of us.