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Rishabh Shroff

Co-Head and Partner in the Private Client Practice at the Mumbai office of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. Rishabh specialises in family constitutions and settlements, trusts, wills and succession planning. He can be reached at rishabh.shroff@cyrilshroff.com

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Why Every Family Office Needs a Constitution

Family businesses in India have spent generations learning to build great companies. Fewer learnt how to run their money. As India’s business families grow richer, family offices (FOs) have quietly become the most powerful seat in the enterprise that almost no one is watching: large pools of capital, deployed at real consequence, answerable to barely any outside authority and increasingly handed early to the next generation. But whom does the FO actually answer to?

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Navigating AI adoption across India’s Family Businesses

The role that India’s family businesses (FBs) play in our economy is staggering – more than 70% of India’s GDP comes from FBs and promoter-run companies. These are multi-generational enterprises, with deeply embedded cultures and concentrated governance structures, with often a single power center in a senior patriarch.

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In the pink … Daddy Pig and Mummy Pig with Evie, the new sibling for Peppa Pig and her brother, George. Photograph: Hasbro Entertainment/PA , Source: The Guardian

Congratulations to Mummy & Daddy Pig, who were blessed with a baby girl piglet, Evie Pig, on May 20! Our favourite Peppa and her adorable baby brother, George, are squealing with delighter over their baby sister, Evie.

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Does unregistered codicil alter the terms of a registered will?

The following article was first published in the Mint newspaper on 5th March, 2024. The same was written by our Private Client team at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, who frequently publish their comments and opinions in the Mint. The online version of the article can be found here.

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How to ensure fair distribution of assets in an estate plan?

The following article was first published in the Mint newspaper on 28th February, 2024. The same was written by our Private Client team at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, who frequently publish their comments and opinions in the Mint. The online version of the article can be found here.

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Is it possible to sell any property after registering it as gift deed?

The following article was first published in the Mint newspaper on 12th September, 2023. The same was written by our Private Client team at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, who frequently publish their comments and opinions in the Mint. The online version of the article can be found here.

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Is there a tax-friendly method for dividing my mother’s property?

The following article was first published in the Mint newspaper on 15th August, 2023. The same was written by our Private Client team at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, who frequently publish their comments and opinions in the Mint. The online version of the article can be found here.

My father, my sister and I are the sole legal heirs of my mother’s immoveable property situated in Delhi. My father wishes that the said property or realizable value thereof may be shared equally by both the children. What is the suitable, tax-friendly method of achieving this division of property? One simple way could be that my father signs a deed of relinquishment before the mutation of the property. Is there any other alternative method that will be tax efficient and would not entail payment of stamp duty or any other levies?

—Name withheld on request

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Can a married woman set up a HUF with just her parents?

The following article was first published in the Mint newspaper on 08th August, 2023. The same was written by our Private Client team at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, who frequently publish their comments and opinions in the Mint. The online version of the article can be found here.

Can a Hindu family, comprising a married woman, her parents and her two very young children form a Hindu undivided family (HUF)?

—Saranya NT

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