Practice Areas / Capital & Structuring
When standard approaches fall short in structure, timing, or jurisdiction. Five services, each built around the requirement.
Capital & Structuring
Context is the priority. When a capital need emerges, the situation is already understood.
A retained advisory relationship providing ongoing capital intelligence, structured finance guidance, and market awareness. The retainer model prioritises context over response time. When a capital need emerges, there is no briefing period and no learning curve. The situation has already been understood.
The engagement covers regular review of the client's capital structure, monitoring of relevant lender and investor markets, early identification of funding windows, and guidance on instrument selection as situations develop. A thinking partnership, with the institutional depth of an in-house function and none of its overhead.
Suitable for
When to engage
When capital decisions are recurring rather than one-off, and when the cost of being unprepared in any single quarter exceeds the cost of the retainer.
Capital & Structuring
Before the first investor meeting. Not during it.
Systematic preparation of a business for capital conversations: documentation gaps, financial model weaknesses, narrative inconsistencies, and due diligence vulnerabilities that cause funding processes to stall after they begin. The work is done before the first investor meeting.
The engagement covers financial model review and reconstruction where required, information memorandum structure and content, business narrative development for investor audiences, identification of structural or compliance issues that surface in due diligence, and the sequencing of investor outreach. A business arriving at its first serious investor conversation structurally prepared moves faster, negotiates from a stronger position, and loses fewer deals to process failure.
Pre-IPO capital placement is a named mandate context within this service: structuring and facilitating access to pre-listing capital for businesses preparing for a public listing in India, Singapore, or other exchanges, covering placement structure, investor sequencing, and documentation readiness ahead of the listing process.
Suitable for
When to engage
Before the first investor meeting. The preparation that should have happened before is significantly more expensive to do after.
Capital & Structuring
The right structure, correctly presented, to the right counterparty.
Advisory on trade finance instruments, structures, and the lender and issuer markets serving import-export businesses. Coverage spans Letters of Credit, Standby LCs, Bank Guarantees, and related non-fund-based instruments across India, Gulf, and Southeast Asian banking markets: their correct application, structuring requirements, documentation standards, and counterparty landscape.
The engagement covers intelligence and structuring advisory only. When the client approaches a bank or trade finance provider, they arrive with the correct instrument specified, correctly structured, documentation in order. The difference between a declined facility and an approved one is frequently not creditworthiness. It is structure and presentation.
Suitable for
When to engage
When a trade finance facility is being established, renegotiated, or has been declined. Before the bank conversation, not after it has gone wrong.
"Capital is not scarce.
Appropriate capital is."
Most capital problems are structure problems, timing problems, or presentation problems. The right advisory relationship identifies which, before the capital conversation begins.
Capital & Structuring
Capital outside the conventional banking system, for when conventional banking falls short.
Access to non-bank capital sources: family offices, private credit funds, high-net-worth capital pools, and institutional lenders outside the conventional banking system. For businesses where bank finance is unavailable, has reached its limit, or is structurally misaligned with the funding requirement.
SKR Meridian does not lend, invest, or take positions. The engagement covers identifying the right capital source for the specific situation, structuring the approach correctly, and facilitating the introduction with appropriate context. A facilitated introduction from a credible advisor lands differently than a cold approach or a broking relationship where the intermediary is compensated by the lender.
Suitable for
When to engage
When a funding gap exists and the conventional path has been exhausted or is unavailable on viable terms. Private credit is more expensive than bank finance and should be used precisely, not by default.
Capital & Structuring
Capital structures that work across jurisdictions, not despite them.
Advisory on capital and holding structures spanning multiple jurisdictions: typically India, Gulf, Singapore, or Mauritius. Coverage includes holding structure design, inter-company flow architecture, repatriation planning, FDI structuring, and regulatory navigation across RBI, FEMA, and relevant foreign frameworks.
Cross-border structures fail most often because the structure was designed for one jurisdiction and extended to others without reconstruction. This engagement serves businesses building a multi-jurisdictional operation from the start, and those correcting a structure that has accumulated inefficiencies or compliance exposures over time. Structures extend across India, UAE, and Singapore, covering inbound deployment, outbound structuring, and offshore capital execution across all three jurisdictions.
Suitable for
When to engage
Before the structure is built, where possible. Restructuring an existing multi-jurisdictional entity is significantly more complex and tax-sensitive than designing it correctly at inception.
Bring the situation as it stands: the requirement, the constraint, the timeline. That is sufficient to establish whether there is a path and what it looks like.