Most people meet us as a service provider — a firm you engage, brief and pay. That is only half of what we are. The other half is that a Company Secretary in Practice holds an office created by an Act of Parliament, and signs documents that the law permits no one else to sign.
It is a distinction worth two minutes of your time, because it changes what you are buying. When we certify your annual return or sign your secretarial audit report, we are not giving you an opinion you commissioned. We are discharging a function the statute reserved to a named, licensed individual — and we answer for it personally, to a disciplinary tribunal, for the rest of our professional lives. A consultant can be replaced. A statutory signature cannot be bought.
Where our authority comes from
Two different Acts do two different jobs, and conflating them is the usual source of confusion. One creates the profession and decides who may belong to it. The other, together with the SEBI Regulations and several allied laws, decides what a member of that profession may sign. Neither works without the other.
Membership makes you a Company Secretary. The Certificate of Practice lets you practise. The Companies Act and the SEBI Regulations decide what you may sign. Peer review, continuing education and the disciplinary Schedules decide whether you keep any of it.
Our registration, if you would like to verify it
- Firm Registration Number (ICSI)
- S2021DE784600
- Peer Review Certificate No.
- 7276/2025
Members and firms can be looked up on the Institute’s own records. If you are engaging any practising professional — us or anyone else — asking for the membership number or firm registration number and checking the certificate of practice costs nothing and is worth doing.
Now, about the firm
MPS & Associates, Company Secretaries was established in 2021 at New Delhi as a firm of Practising Company Secretaries, registered with the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. The firm is peer-reviewed by the ICSI — an independent assessment of the quality and discipline of our professional work.
We were set up with a deliberately narrow purpose: to take on the corporate secretarial and corporate law matters that are too technical, too time-bound or too consequential to be handled in passing. In the years since, that focus has grown into a practice serving more than a hundred clients across twenty states in India and twelve countries overseas.
What we do
Our work centres on secretarial audit and due diligence — audits under Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013, secretarial and legal due diligence for transactions, and compliance reviews that prepare a company for an IPO. Around that core, we handle compounding of offences and adjudication of penalties, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and matters before the National Company Law Tribunal, together with routine and event-based secretarial compliance, foreign exchange and cross-border filings, drafting of corporate and commercial documents, intellectual property registrations, statutory licences and governance training for boards.
We also run the finance and back-office function for companies that would rather not build one — bookkeeping, accounting, payroll, provident fund and state insurance, the audit file and the reporting a foreign parent needs. That work sits alongside the secretarial calendar rather than separately from it, which is the whole point of it being under one roof.
We appear before the National Company Law Tribunal, the Regional Director, the Registrar of Companies and other authorities under the Companies Act, and we draft and file the documents that those proceedings rest on.
Whom we serve
Our clients are companies. We act for listed and unlisted public companies, private limited companies, limited liability partnerships, wholly-owned subsidiaries of foreign parents, branch, liaison and project offices, non-banking financial companies, start-ups and MSMEs, trusts, societies and Section 8 companies, and for chambers of commerce and trade associations. They operate in manufacturing and textiles, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, real estate and hospitality, technology, telecom, media, financial services, logistics, energy, education and the consumer sector.
A substantial part of that work reaches us on referral — from auditors, bankers, counsel and advisers who need the secretarial and corporate law component of an assignment handled properly. Where a company already has an accountant or an auditor in place we work alongside them rather than displacing them. The statutory audit of a company is in any event carried out by an independent auditor appointed under the Companies Act, and never by this firm in respect of records it has itself prepared.
How we work
We are a multidisciplinary bench by design. Company Secretaries, an Advocate enrolled with the Bar Council of India and a finance professional work on the same file rather than in sequence. In practice that means a due diligence report can be reviewed and signed by a practising Advocate, a scheme of arrangement can be drafted and argued by the team that also modelled its financial effect, and a client is not left coordinating between three advisers who have never spoken to each other.
We work to fixed, agreed timelines, we tell clients early when a filing is at risk rather than after the due date has passed, and we keep the working papers that let a company answer a regulator years later. For most of our clients we function as an extension of their own secretarial department rather than as an outside consultant called in for a single filing.
Credentials
The firm is registered with the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and holds a peer review certificate issued by the Institute. Our Founder is a Fellow Member of the ICSI, a registered Trade Mark Agent and a Primary Member of the ICAI Registered Valuer Organisation. Our Partner – Legal is an Advocate enrolled with the Bar Council of India and a Registered Trademark Attorney. For legal due diligence and allied litigation work we act alongside Prehit Legal, our legal partner firm.
Meet our Management Team
The firm is led by three partners whose disciplines deliberately do not overlap — company secretarial practice, law, and finance.
CS Mohit Bhardwaj
Mohit is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, a registered Trade Mark Agent and a Primary Member of the ICAI Registered Valuer Organisation. He holds a Master of Commerce in Business Policy and Corporate Governance and brings over eight years of professional experience, having begun his career with the Bharti Group before establishing an independent practice. He founded the firm in 2021 and leads its secretarial audit and due diligence practice, advising boards and promoters on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, foreign exchange compliance and intellectual property.
Adv. (CS) Prerna Gaur Bhardwaj
Prerna is an Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, an Advocate enrolled with the Bar Council of India, a Master of Commerce and a Registered Trademark Attorney. With over seven years in the legal and corporate domain, she heads the legal segment of the firm and appears before the National Company Law Tribunal and various courts. Her practice covers legal due diligence, legal research, opinions and advisory on corporate law, and contentious matters including oppression and mismanagement. She is also the Founder of Prehit Law Chambers, New Delhi.
Mr. Mayank Sharma
Mayank is a finance professional with over eight years of experience. He supports the firm's due diligence and secretarial audit teams with financial analysis, bringing a close reading of financial statements to engagements where the numbers and the statutory record have to reconcile. He also works on the financial structuring of schemes of merger and amalgamation, including valuation inputs, share exchange workings and the appointed-date effect on the books of the transferor and transferee companies.
The partners are supported by a team of company secretaries, semi-qualified professionals and paralegals working across our secretarial, litigation and diligence practices.
Speak to us
Our registered office is at Office No. C-58, UG Floor, Shahpuri Tower, Janakpuri, New Delhi -110058. We act for clients across India and, through correspondence and virtual meetings, for overseas parents and investors with Indian subsidiaries.