The legal handover in a GCC build-operate-transfer model
The transfer date should be supported by a defined perimeter of people, contracts, systems and rights.
Read the guide Global Capability Centres
Connect the group. Define the responsibility.
Operating-model decisions on build-operate-transfer, data access, secondments, intellectual property and transition.
The contextGlobal Capability Centres.
Global Capability Centres.
The questions behind the work.
A GCC is an operating model, not a separate legal form. The Indian entity's responsibilities follow its contracts, functions, people, assets and regulated activities. Group ownership does not eliminate the need to document services, assign rights, control access and examine cross-border payments.
Read the practice notesFive decisions.
Five decisions.
Examined in detail.
Cross-border data access in a GCC operating model
Where people access data can matter even when the database itself remains in one country.
Read the guideSecondments to an Indian GCC: who directs, employs and pays?
Payroll location and the word secondment do not settle the legal character of the arrangement.
Read the guideWho owns the IP developed inside an Indian GCC?
Group ownership of the company does not automatically establish ownership of every invention, code contribution or dataset.
Read the guideGCC closure and service migration: a coordinated legal exit
Moving the work does not automatically close the Indian entity, its employee obligations or its contractual responsibilities.
Read the guideThe applicable framework
Company law, FEMA, direct and indirect tax, employment, intellectual-property and data-protection rules may apply to the GCC's actual functions. Foreign group policies are not a substitute for an India-specific legal assessment. Sector restrictions can apply even to activities described as support services.