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Saurabh Panwar

A Chartered Accountant with more than eight years of experience in the realms of Direct Taxation, International Taxation and Transfer Pricing. He has successfully handled various assignments related to Tax Audits, Transfer Pricing Audits, Assessments, Appeals before the Commissioner (Appeals) and Income Tax Tribunals, Tax planning & International Taxation Advisory. He has experience in a wide range of industry segments ranging from manufacturing sector, service sector, NGOs etc.

Umesh Babu

Partner heading Taxation & regulatory practice at Bangalore office, with over 21 years of experience in the field of taxation, both direct and indirect, financing and regulatory and policy matters. He also has wide experience in financing, having successfully organised Terms Loans/working capital limits from banks and financial institutions. He has represented extensively in Income tax department as well as VAT/Excise and GST departments.

Dinesh Singhal

Senior Partner and In-charge of Taxation & regulatory practice of the firm. He has over 21 years of experience in the field of direct and indirect taxation as well as regulatory and policy matters. He has advised a number of international and domestic companies on a range of tax and regulatory issues. He specializes in the representation before GST & Income Tax authorities in connection with assessment/ scrutiny/ adjudication/ audit/ appeal matters. He has co-authored book titled “Compendium of Top 100 Rulings by Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) under GST”.

Pritesh Kumar Maniyar

Partner-in-charge of the Pune Branch of the firm, Pritesh has been in practice of profession since qualifying in 2010. He has good exposure in Audits, Direct taxation and Litigation matters. Apart from handing Appellate matters, Pritesh has also been involved in Transfer Pricing and International Taxation assignments.

Chetan P. Firodiya

Chetan has got wide exposure to handling audit assignments both Statutory and Internal. He has got expertise in designing Business Plans, MIS Reports, and Standard Operating Procedures for clients.

Raju Vyas

Senior partner of the firm with over 30 years of experience, started his career with Industry and has held senior positions in Finance while working with renowned business houses of India and overseas. Having been in the profession for over 24 years, he has contributed in the areas of Audit/ Business risk advisory apart from assisting his clients in matters regulated by the Foreign Exchange Management Act viz., FDI, ECB, etc. An active participant in takeover /PE investment deals that involved structuring of the transaction, handling of due diligence assignments, and facilitation of the transaction between the investor and the investee companies.

Ritesh Kumar

Ritesh is a Chartered Accountant with over 10 years of post-qualification experience in statutory audits and tax audits. He has extensive experience in audits of large listed entities engaged mainly in the manufacturing sector. His experience ranges across sectors including jewellery, lens care, industrial goods, consumer goods, liquor, logistics, coaching institutions and not for profit entities.

Sagar A. Agrawal

An associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, he has exposure in the areas of Auditing, Indirect taxation e.g. VAT, Service Tax and handling of the scrutiny cases. He has handled audit assignments covering corporates, banks, educational institutions etc.

Ritesh Sharma

A fellow member of the Institute, he is DISA(ICAI) Certificate holder in Information System Audit. He has got wide exposure in Audit, Tax Planning and compliances and has handled US Taxation Practice. He is Partner-in-charge of Bangalore Branch of the firm.

Suresh Vyas

Managing partner of the firm, he has got about 30 years of experience in the Industry and Profession of handling a number of projects and companies of national and international level. He has mastered the activities relating to the corporate world such as corporate law matters, acquisitions and mergers, liaison with Government agencies etc. While in practice, he has assisted a number of international companies to set up their offices in India and was also associated with Indian companies acquiring projects overseas.