Privately held business solutions

Grant Thornton India's mission is to be the adviser of choice to Indian businesses with global ambitions. The Firm specializes in providing business solutions to privately held businesses in a personalized and focussed manner.

We regard the privately held businesses group as a strong medium for economic growth.

The productivity and innovation generated by this group is essential to the ongoing health of the global economy. In recognition of the important role that privately held businesses play while generating employment, driving growth and responding effectively to changing market demands, the Firm has developed a special task force which specializes in providing compliance and advisory services to such businesses.

The Firm has structured the requirements of privately held businesses in India under the following broad market driven heads:

• Entrepreneurial services (owner managed Indian businesses)
• Domestic capital markets (accessing external capital)
• International business expansion (becoming a global company)

Privately held companies have unique requirements ranging from assistance in strategy development, process engineering, organization structuring, financing, succession planning and tax advice.

With an emphasis on individual attention and quality service, we focus on the varying specific and general needs of privately held enterprises and their owners. Many of our clients frequently look at us to serve as a sounding board on business matters.

We make it a point to obtain a thorough working knowledge of our clients' business practices, industry benchmarks and market trends. Our privately held business group helps our clients achieve their business goals - creatively, effectively and efficiently.

Whether your business is starting-up, growing, maturing or in transition, our privately held business services team can offer solutions suited to the needs of privately - owned businesses. The table below provides an overview of our service offerings for this group.

Market	Services offered	Our proposition
Entrepreneurial services (owner managed Indian businesses)	Strategy Planning Control assessments Compliance Tax minimization Family creed Exit	A cohesive team that can work as part of your business
Domestic capital markets (accessing external capital)	Going public Corporate governance Compliance Raising finance - debt or equity	Helping Indian companies access public or private capital
International business expansion (becoming a global company)	Research Location Set Up Ongoing compliance	Helping Indian owner managers achieve their global ambitions