Social Sector Finance

Vishen Law Chambers is a trusted friend of social enterprises –non-profit (Trusts, Societies, Companies), for profit entities and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) initiatives. Our experience includes handling the entire gamut of work for set up and running of social enterprises:

• Incorporation of entities as a trust/ society/ company to conduct its non-profit activities, factoring the entity’s domain of work, source(s) of funding, its founding members and founders’ vision
• Strategy advise for commencing operations across new international legal systems
• Setting up liaison offices of foreign charities in India
• Setting up branch offices of Indian charities abroad
• Fund-raising/grant documentation – for programs, research and corpus building
• Periodic legal, statutory and secretarial compliances under Foreign Contribution and Regulation Act (FCRA), Lokpal Act, Income Tax Act, Right to Information Act and Companies Act
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies, CSR grants and arrangements for impact measurement of CSR activities