Your company isn't buying back. We will.
Company buybacks are rare, small and on their schedule. The Polemarch Guarantee works like a buyback that answers to you: we evaluate your holding and make a direct purchase offer — accept it and get paid.
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On your schedule
No waiting for a company liquidity event that may never come. Submit whenever you're ready; we respond in days.
One counterparty, one decision
No buyer hunting, no negotiation rounds. Polemarch itself is the buyer — you review one clear offer.
A real, priced commitment
The offer states price, quantity, validity and terms. Accept it and the process is committed — no re-trading.
How we price it
Liquidity, live demand, expected time to exit, legal and holding costs — transparently weighed, explained on request.
No obligation, ever
Decline and nothing happens — your request can move to an assisted sale or the waitlist instead.
Paid after verification
Transfer your shares, we verify receipt, payment settles to your bank within T+2 working days.
How it works
Request your offer
In the dashboard sell wizard, pick the guarantee route and enter company, quantity and your expected price. No fee, no commitment.
One firm offer to review
Polemarch values the holding and sends a direct purchase offer — price, quantity, validity, terms. Accept it online, or don't.
Transfer and settlement
You transfer the shares via off-market demat transfer; once verified, payment settles to your verified bank account within T+2 working days.
Who this is for
Holders who value certainty and speed over squeezing the last rupee from a negotiation.
- Your company runs no buyback programme — or runs tiny, oversubscribed ones.
- You need liquidity by a date: a purchase, a move, a commitment.
- You'd take a clean, committed number over weeks of buyer roulette.
- You hold a less-traded name where finding an external buyer takes time.
Estimate the tax on your exit
Before comparing a buyback with any sale offer, know your after-tax number — model your capital gains position here.
Buybacks, guarantees and the price of certainty
The word 'buyback' carries a promise: someone standing ready to purchase your shares without you hunting for a buyer. In the unlisted world that promise is scarce — issuers buy back rarely and on their own terms. This section compares every buyback-shaped exit available to an unlisted shareholder, and is honest about what each one costs.
Why company buybacks rarely rescue unlisted shareholders
A statutory buyback is a corporate action with real constraints: it needs board (and often shareholder) approval, is capped by law as a proportion of the company's capital and free reserves, consumes cash the company usually prefers to deploy in the business, and follows the company's calendar — not yours. Growth-stage companies conserving runway almost never run them; even profitable unlisted companies run them occasionally and modestly.
ESOP buyback programmes are the friendlier cousin — many well-funded companies run periodic windows to give employees liquidity. But they come with their own frictions: fixed windows you can't choose, per-employee caps, pro-rata scaling when oversubscribed, and a price set unilaterally by the company. If your liquidity need and the company's window happen to align, use it. The problem this page solves is every other month of the year.
What the Polemarch Guarantee actually is — and isn't
The Guarantee is Polemarch buying your shares onto its own book as principal. It is not the issuer repurchasing shares (your company's capital structure is untouched), and it is not a brokered match (there's no third-party buyer to find or wait for). We take your block, carry it, and exit it later at our own risk. That structural difference is what makes the experience buyback-like: one counterparty, one committed offer, a definite timeline.
Because we carry the exit risk, our price embeds a spread against the best case an unhurried assisted sale might achieve. We'd rather state that plainly than have you discover it by comparison shopping: the guaranteed number buys certainty, speed and zero execution effort. Whether that trade is worth it depends on your timeline and your alternatives — which is why the offer sits alongside the assisted route, not instead of it, and why declining costs you nothing.
Comparing exits properly: after tax, after friction, after time
Holders comparing a company window against a guaranteed offer routinely compare the wrong numbers. The headline price is the start, not the answer. Work through three adjustments:
- Tax treatment — a statutory buyback is taxed under its own regime, while a sale to Polemarch is a capital-gains event in your hands (24-month threshold for long-term treatment on unlisted shares). The same gross price can produce different net outcomes.
- Fill risk — an oversubscribed ESOP window may accept only part of your tendered quantity; a guaranteed offer states its quantity up front and honours it.
- Time and optionality — a window six months away is not the same money as settlement this month; and partial acceptance of a guaranteed offer preserves your remaining shares for later windows or a better market.
From acceptance to bank credit
Once you accept, the remaining path is deliberately boring. Your documents — CMR, PAN, demat holding statement, plus ESOP grant and exercise records where relevant — are verified against the demat account the shares will leave from. You execute the off-market transfer instruction for the agreed quantity with the stated execution date; the depository moves the shares; we confirm the credit.
Payment then settles to your verified bank account within T+2 working days of the transfer, with the full transaction record — offer, agreements, transfer confirmation, payment reference — retained in your dashboard for your tax filing. No follow-ups to chase, no buyer to remind. That, more than any single number, is what people are actually asking for when they ask whether anyone will buy their shares back.
Frequently asked questions
Is this an actual company buyback?
No — a company buyback is the issuer repurchasing its own shares. The Polemarch Guarantee is Polemarch buying your shares onto its own book, which we later exit independently. For you the experience is buyback-like: one buyer, one offer, committed settlement.
How is the guaranteed price set?
We evaluate current market demand, liquidity, the time and cost of our own eventual exit, and legal/holding costs. Because we carry the exit risk, the guaranteed price typically sits below the best-case assisted-sale outcome — that spread is the price of certainty and speed.
Guarantee or assisted sale — how do I choose?
Guarantee = speed and certainty. Assisted = we work dealers, HNIs and family offices for the best achievable price, which takes longer and isn't committed until a buyer signs. Many sellers ask for the guaranteed number first and use it as their floor.
How fast is the money in my account?
Offer in days after your documents verify; once you accept and transfer the shares, verification and payout complete within T+2 working days.
What if you decline to make an offer on my shares?
Some names we can't underwrite. Your request then flows to an assisted sale or the waitlist — we record your ask and call you when matching demand appears. Nothing is wasted.
Is selling to Polemarch taxed differently from a company buyback?
Yes, and the difference matters. A statutory company buyback follows its own tax regime; selling to Polemarch is an ordinary transfer of unlisted shares, taxed as capital gains in your hands — long-term if held 24 months or more, short-term at slab rates otherwise. Compare after-tax outcomes, not headline prices, and confirm with a tax adviser.
Will TDS be deducted from my payout?
For resident sellers, tax on a share transfer is generally self-assessed rather than deducted at source, though specific situations (notably non-resident sellers) attract withholding. Your deal documentation states exactly what applies to your transaction, and you receive a complete record for your return.
My employer's ESOP buyback offer is open right now. Which should I take?
Run both numbers after tax and after timing. Company ESOP buybacks are often capped, pro-rated when oversubscribed, and scheduled once — you may not place your full quantity. A guaranteed Polemarch offer prices your whole block on your dates. Many holders use our quote as the benchmark to decide how much to tender.
Can Polemarch buy only part of my holding?
Yes — quantity is a term of the offer, not all-or-nothing. Sellers frequently take a guaranteed exit on part of the block for certainty and keep the rest for a future assisted sale or a later liquidity event.
What would a sale look like?
Enter your own numbers — we’ll show the arithmetic. Actual pricing is agreed deal-by-deal after valuation.
Based entirely on your inputs — not a price quote or an offer. Funds settle T+2 working days after share transfer. Taxes depend on your situation and are not included; this is not tax or investment advice. Unlisted securities carry risk; no assured returns.
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