Wealth Architecture · Family Governance · Legacy Planning
Nous Capita advises India's most distinguished families on the architecture of lasting wealth — structuring, protecting, and perpetuating what they have built.
Our Philosophy
We believe that true wealth endures across generations not by chance, but by design. Our work begins where most advisors conclude — at the intersection of capital, family dynamics, and institutional-grade governance.
Nous Capita operates with a single mandate: to serve the long-term interests of the families who place their confidence in us, with the same care and foresight we would dedicate to our own.
No products. No commissions. Our counsel exists solely for your family's benefit.
Difficult truths, delivered with compassion. We say what we believe.
Pattern recognition across families and market cycles. Anticipating complexity before it becomes crisis.
A deliberately small client roster — our promise that every family receives the full depth of our attention.
What We Do
Hover each discipline to reveal the depth of our engagement. Every mandate is bespoke.
Designing holistic capital frameworks across family trusts, holding structures, and cross-border vehicles — protecting assets while enabling growth and efficient generational transfer.
Establishing family constitutions, councils, and institutional-grade decision frameworks that preserve harmony and intent across generations — preventing dilution of purpose.
Acting as the independent investment office for families — objective oversight, manager selection, and consolidated reporting across all asset classes and geographies.
Engineering transitions of business ownership and control — from shareholder agreements and ESOP structures to management succession and founder liquidity events.
Structuring the giving ambitions of families through private foundations, endowments, and impact vehicles that reflect values while delivering measurable social returns.
Coordinating with leading counsel to ensure structures are resilient — from FEMA compliance to GIFT City opportunities, international treaties and evolving regulatory landscapes.
How We Work
Deep listening before any recommendation is offered. We seek to understand the family's full history — its ambitions, dynamics, anxieties, and the legacy it is trying to protect or build.
2–4 sessionsA bespoke strategic framework designed from first principles — integrating legal structure, tax efficiency, investment philosophy, and governance design into a single coherent vision.
4–8 weeksCoordinating with our network of best-in-class specialists — senior lawyers, chartered accountants, and independent trustees — to execute the architecture with precision and appropriate urgency.
OngoingThe relationship does not end at implementation. We review and refine as family circumstances, regulatory frameworks, and market conditions evolve — ensuring the architecture remains relevant across every generation.
GenerationalThe Four Pillars
We earn no commissions, distribute no products, and hold no financial interests that could compromise our counsel. Our sole incentive is your family's long-term flourishing.
We say what we believe and believe what we say. Difficult truths, delivered with compassion and precision, are the most valuable counsel we can offer a family.
Pattern recognition across families, structures, and market cycles allows us to anticipate complexity before it becomes crisis — and to see opportunity where others see only risk.
A deliberately small client roster. This is not a constraint — it is our promise that every family receives the full depth of our attention and our care.
"Nous Capita brought order to what had become an unwieldy estate across three countries and two generations. For the first time in a decade, our family has genuine clarity about where we stand and where we are going.
Chairman, Mumbai-based Industrial Group · Client since 2016
"What distinguishes Nous Capita is the rarity of their independence. They have no products to sell, no commissions to earn. Their counsel is entirely aligned with our interests, and it shows in every recommendation they make.
Founding Partner, Private Equity Firm · Client since 2019
The People Behind the Practice
Every family we serve is guided by individuals who have dedicated their careers to the singular discipline of wealth stewardship. We introduce you to the people whose judgment, integrity, and experience define what Nous Capita stands for.
Founder & Managing Principal
Wealth Architect · Family Governance Counsel · Principal Advisor
Wealth without architecture is merely fortune. Our work is to give it structure, meaning, and the capacity to endure far beyond the generation that created it.
Manish Purohit is the founding mind and guiding conscience of Nous Capita. With a career devoted entirely to the architecture of lasting wealth, he has become one of India's most trusted confidants to business families navigating the intersection of capital, legacy, and governance. His counsel is sought not merely for its technical rigour — though that is formidable — but for the rare quality of wisdom he brings to decisions that carry generational consequence.
Under his direction, Nous Capita has established a philosophy of absolute independence: no product sales, no commissions, no conflicts. Every engagement is designed around the singular interests of the family. It is this unflinching integrity, as much as any credential, that has earned Manish the confidence of India's most discerning families — many of whom have been clients for over a decade and have introduced their children to his counsel in turn.
Succession & Governance
Among the earliest to join Manish Purohit in giving shape to what Nous Capita would become, Parvinder Singh has been a foundational presence in the firm's practice of succession and family governance since its earliest days. His alignment with Manish's philosophy — that a family's most important asset is its unity of purpose — is not coincidental. It was forged through years of working side by side on mandates where the stakes were generational and the margin for error was none.
He brings an instinctive understanding of the human dynamics that determine whether a family's wealth survives its founders — the rivalries, the aspirations, the silences that no document alone can resolve. Trusted, discreet, and unfailingly precise.
Investment & Tax Strategy
Shailesh Pal came to Nous Capita through Manish Purohit's conviction that the firm needed someone who could match rigour with integrity in equal measure — someone who understood that in the service of families, technical precision is not a differentiator but a baseline obligation. That conviction proved well-founded. Shailesh has since become the firm's foremost authority on the regulatory architecture of wealth: FEMA compliance, GIFT City structures, cross-border holding vehicles, and evolving direct tax provisions.
He approaches every mandate knowing that a single overlooked detail can unravel years of careful construction. Families working with Nous Capita benefit from his rigour as a quiet but essential safeguard behind every recommendation the firm makes.
Client Relations & Family Advisory
Meera Dange joined Nous Capita at Manish Purohit's personal invitation — a reflection of his belief that the most consequential conversations a family ever has deserve a presence that is as perceptive as it is warm. She has since become the firm's most trusted point of continuity for the families it serves: the person who remembers what was said three meetings ago, who understands the unspoken concern behind a question, and who ensures that every family feels genuinely known, not merely advised.
Her contribution to Nous Capita is difficult to quantify and impossible to overstate. In a practice built on long-term relationships, she is the reason those relationships deepen rather than merely endure.
Wealth Structuring & Legal Coordination
Milan Jadhav's path to Nous Capita was shaped by the same question that has guided Manish Purohit throughout his career: how does one truly protect what a family has spent a lifetime building? It was a question Milan had been wrestling with in his own practice before Manish brought him into the fold — recognising in him a mind that combined legal clarity with a genuine commitment to the families his work served.
At Nous Capita, Milan coordinates the intricate intersection of legal structure and wealth architecture — ensuring that the frameworks designed for each family are not only sound in conception but watertight in execution, and that the right counsel is always in the room when it matters most.
Operations & Client Stewardship
Dinesh Kanade has been part of Nous Capita's journey from a time when the firm was still finding the precise language for what it was trying to become. Manish Purohit recognised early that the quality of a family office practice is determined as much by the integrity of its operations as by the brilliance of its advice — and that this required someone who took the same pride in the invisible work as in the visible.
Dinesh ensures that every commitment the firm makes to a family is honoured without exception: that meetings are prepared with care, that follow-throughs happen without reminders, and that the experience of working with Nous Capita feels as considered as the counsel itself.
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