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SEBI cuts AIF scheme-launch timeline to 10 working days under GARUDA mechanism

AIF managers launching regular schemes get a 10-working-day timeline, while AI-only schemes and Angel Funds may launch on registration or PPM filing without routing the PPM through a merchant banker

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On 19 June 2026, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) approved the GARUDA mechanism through an amendment to the SEBI (Alternative Investment Funds) Regulations, 2012, reducing the new-scheme launch timeline for regular schemes to 10 working days and exempting Accredited-Investor-only schemes and Angel Funds from filing the Private Placement Memorandum through a merchant banker.
Why it matters
For regular Non-Accredited Investor schemes (excluding LVFs, AI-only schemes and Angel Funds), the launch timeline is fixed at 10 working days. AI-only schemes and Angel Funds may launch immediately on grant of SEBI registration or filing of the PPM with SEBI, without the merchant-banker PPM-filing step. The relief reduces the pre-launch processing path but the underlying PPM-filing and registration obligations remain.
Implications
  • — AIF managers of regular Non-Accredited Investor schemes must plan launches to the fixed 10-working-day processing timeline under GARUDA, replacing the previous longer path — managers relying on legacy timelines mis-sequence capital deployment and investor commitments.
  • — Managers of AI-only schemes and Angel Funds must still file the PPM with SEBI and obtain registration to use the immediate-launch route; the exemption removes only the merchant-banker PPM-filing step, so treating the scheme as exempt from PPM filing or registration itself is non-compliant.
Who is affected
  • — AIF managers and compliance teams launching schemes
  • — Merchant bankers previously filing AIF placement memoranda
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