Design, implement, and administer your Employee Stock Ownership Plan with confidence — backed by Marcken Consulting’s SEBI-registered Merchant Banker and IBBI Registered Valuer expertise, trusted by startups, private companies, and listed corporates across India.
Design an ESOP scheme that gives your best people a real stake in the company's success — aligning their interests with yours and reducing attrition at critical growth stages.
Navigate the Companies Act 2013, SEBI (SBEB) Regulations 2021, and the Income Tax Act 1961 with confidence. Our SEBI-registered Merchant Banker and IBBI Registered Valuer ensure every step is legally defensible.
Investors and acquirers scrutinise your ESOP scheme, cap table, and valuation during due diligence. A properly structured scheme — backed by a certified valuation report — strengthens your position at the negotiating table.
Help your employees understand the tax treatment of their options — at grant, vesting, exercise, and sale — and ensure your company's TDS compliance is airtight.
A structured four-step process that keeps you informed and in control at every stage.
We understand your company's stage, shareholding structure, headcount, and ESOP objectives — whether for talent retention, fundraising readiness, or regulatory compliance.
We propose the pool size, vesting structure, and exercise price mechanism, then draft all scheme documents and resolutions required for board and shareholder approval.
We conduct the FMV valuation and issue the required certificate — by an IBBI Registered Valuer or SEBI-registered Merchant Banker — to support exercise price setting and regulatory filings.
We support grant issuance, maintain vesting registers, compute perquisite values at each exercise event, and provide periodic scheme reviews as your company grows.
CA Murli Chandak holds both an IBBI Registered Valuer registration (Securities or Financial Assets) and a SEBI Category-I Merchant Banker licence — covering all valuation certification requirements for unlisted and listed company ESOP schemes in India.
We handle scheme design, regulatory drafting, valuation certification, and taxation advisory without requiring you to coordinate across multiple advisors — saving time and eliminating gaps.
With over 300 valuation and advisory engagements across seven countries, including production of an 8-volume ESOP Implementation Handbook for listed companies in India, Marcken Consulting brings proven depth to every engagement.
We serve companies across India from our Ahmedabad and Mumbai offices, with the capability to handle remote engagements for clients nationwide across all stages — startup, growth, and listed.
For unlisted companies, the Companies Act requires exercise price determination by an IBBI Registered Valuer. A SEBI-registered Merchant Banker is required for listed companies under the SEBI SBEB Regulations, 2021. Marcken Consulting holds both credentials.
Yes. Pre-revenue startups frequently use ESOPs to attract talent. DPIIT-recognised startups also benefit from a five-year perquisite tax deferral under Section 192(1C) of the Income Tax Act, making ESOPs particularly effective at the early stage.
A standard ESOP scheme implementation — from scheme design to the issuance of first grant letters — typically takes four to eight weeks, depending on cap table complexity and shareholder meeting timelines.
Marcken Consulting , a dynamic firm that has quickly gained recognition for its exceptional services. The firm offers a comprehensive range of financial solutions, including Statutory Audit, Internal Audits, Forensic Audits, Tax Audit, Direct And Indirect Consulting, and Valuation Services.
