Foreign investment in India: rules for FDI and portfolio inflows, routes, sectoral caps, pricing, payment and reporting. The Master Circular consolidates RBI rules under FEMA governing foreign investment in India: permitted instruments (equity, fully and mandatorily convertible debentures/preference shares), two entry routes (Automatic and Government), investor eligibility, pricing and payment modalities (including conversions of ECBs, royalty/technical fees and import payables into equity), sectoral caps and prohibited activities, and detailed reporting and documentation requirements (FC GPR, FC TRS, KYC, auditor/secretary certificates). It also compiles PIS, FVCI, ADR/GDR/IDR, escrow and account rules, monitoring obligations of AD banks/custodians and annexed sectoral schedules.
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Foreign investment in India: rules for FDI and portfolio inflows, routes, sectoral caps, pricing, payment and reporting.
The Master Circular consolidates RBI rules under FEMA governing foreign investment in India: permitted instruments (equity, fully and mandatorily convertible debentures/preference shares), two entry routes (Automatic and Government), investor eligibility, pricing and payment modalities (including conversions of ECBs, royalty/technical fees and import payables into equity), sectoral caps and prohibited activities, and detailed reporting and documentation requirements (FC GPR, FC TRS, KYC, auditor/secretary certificates). It also compiles PIS, FVCI, ADR/GDR/IDR, escrow and account rules, monitoring obligations of AD banks/custodians and annexed sectoral schedules.
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