Advisory work in India typically follows a specialist model. A tax advisor handles compliance. A separate consultant advises on fundraising. A third firm is engaged for strategic planning. Each operates within their domain, and the client is left to reconcile how the recommendations interact.
This structure creates blind spots. Tax advice that does not account for its effect on capital strategy. Financial projections that ignore regulatory cost. Strategic direction that has not been stress-tested against compliance reality.
ProSquad Consulting was established to address this structural gap. Four advisory verticals — finance, compliance, advisory, and strategy — operate under one integrated judgment model. Each vertical has defined scope, but advisory decisions are evaluated at the points where disciplines intersect. The result is advice that holds up when examined by auditors, regulators, and investors — not just the advisor who gave it.
Four verticals, one judgment model
Capital, transactions, and long-term value
Finance
Financial judgment for decisions that must withstand regulatory and investor scrutiny.
Finance advisory →Regulatory structure and operating risk
Compliance
Regulatory clarity and compliance structures designed to hold up under scrutiny.
Compliance advisory →Integrated judgment across disciplines
Advisory
Integrated judgment when financial, regulatory, and strategic considerations overlap.
Advisory services →Market position and organisational design
Strategy
Strategic decisions grounded in financial and regulatory reality.
Strategy advisory →How advisory work is structured
Advisory judgment at ProSquad is exercised by senior practitioners with direct involvement throughout each engagement — not delegated through layers and reviewed at the end. Matters involving financial strategy, regulatory interpretation, and cross-domain risk are handled by the people accountable for the advice.
The integrated model means every engagement can draw on all four verticals.
When a finance decision has compliance implications, the same engagement team addresses both — not through referrals between separate practices, but through a single judgment process that evaluates how the decision interacts across domains.
This avoids the common advisory failure mode where a client receives sound financial advice that creates regulatory exposure, or compliance guidance that constrains capital strategy unnecessarily. The result is advice that holds up under audit, regulatory examination, and investor scrutiny — not only within a single discipline.
Who leads the work
Finance, Risk & Strategy
Samhitha Kumbhajadala
Director
Samhitha advises on financial strategy, risk architecture, and capital structuring decisions — supporting founders and leadership teams on valuation, fundraising readiness, and long-term financial direction.
Tax, Audit & Financial Reporting
Arun Mani
Director
Arun advises on taxation, audit, and financial reporting, with emphasis on regulatory defensibility and ensuring financial structures withstand statutory and audit examination.
“During a critical fundraise, our proposed structure had not been aligned with RBI requirements. ProSquad identified the regulatory conflict ahead of term sheet issuance and swiftly restructured the transaction, allowing us to proceed without disruption.”
When we are engaged
ProSquad advises Indian businesses navigating decisions involving financial, regulatory, and strategic complexity. Engagements are scoped to the decision at hand — not sold as fixed packages.
When preparing for fundraising or capital events requiring alignment between financial and regulatory structures
When structuring operations across multiple compliance regimes — GST, income tax, corporate law, and sector-specific regulations
When evaluating strategic decisions with financial and regulatory implications that require integrated assessment
When requiring director-level financial and regulatory judgment without a full-time CFO or compliance function
Selected engagements
Structured compliance architecture for a SaaS company ahead of institutional fundraising.
Designed entity and tax structure for multi-state logistics operations entering regulated markets.
Delivered integrated financial and regulatory assessment for founder-led acquisition.
Built financial model and investor-ready reporting for D2C brand preparing for institutional capital.
“As we expanded across multiple states, our growth began outpacing our compliance framework. ProSquad rebuilt our entity and GST structure, sequencing our market entry around regulatory obligations we hadn't fully mapped — we could enter each market on our own terms, ahead of the exposure that was already compounding.”
Details anonymised to protect client confidentiality. Client quotes used with permission. Representative of engagement scope, not exhaustive.
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