N Madhan

N Madhan is a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited India’s Tax & Regulatory Services team and is also the leader of the Chennai & Hyderabad Tax Practice of India. He has over 20 years’ professional experience.

Madhan has wide experience in transfer pricing advisory, compliance and litigation, corporate taxation, including inbound and outbound investments and cross-border transactions. He has appeared in a number of complex appeal matters pertaining to corporate taxation and transfer pricing before different appellate authorities. He has also concluded several complex Advanced Pricing Agreements with the Government.

He has provided tax consulting and business advisory services to clients in the manufacturing, oil and gas, automotive, engineering services, IT and ITES sectors.

Madhan is a Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant.

N Madhan

N Madhan
Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited

Rajesh Gandhi

Rajesh is a Partner in Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP with more than 19 years of professional experience. He was on three year secondment in US. While in the US, he led the India desk in the International Core of Excellence program for Deloitte Tax LLP, New York.

Rajesh specializes in Corporate Tax and Exchange Control regulations, advising clients on various tax issues including domestic and international tax planning, inbound and outbound investment structuring, contracts with foreign enterprises, taxation of foreign enterprises in India, as well as exchange control regulations.

He has also represented clients in audit and appellate proceedings before various tax authorities and assisted clients in obtaining regulatory approvals from the Government and Reserve Bank of India in relation to exchange control issues.

Rajesh has been an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India since 1997.

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Rajesh H. Gandhi
Partner | Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP
Indiabulls Finance Centre,
Tower 3, 30th Floor, Senapati Bapat Marg, Elphinstone Road (W)
Mumbai – 400 013, India
D: +91 (0)22 6185 4380 | M: +91 (0) 98195 90172
[email protected]

Gaurav Chandak

Gaurav is a Senior Manager in the Direct Tax practice in India and is based out of Mumbai. He has over 9 years of post qualification experience entirely in Direct tax consulting.

Gaurav has advised clients on various direct tax issues; both from a domestic tax as well as international tax perspective and Indian exchange control regulations.

He has advised clients on India entry strategies, investment structuring, funding alternatives and tax efficient business models including inter alia review of business documents from an Indian income-tax and exchange control standpoint. He has also assisted clients on income-tax litigation and has represented them before the tax authorities.

Gaurav is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Chartered Institute of Taxation (UK). He has also completed Advanced Diploma in International Taxation from Chartered Institute of Taxation (UK).

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Gaurav Chandak Senior Manager | Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP Indiabulls Finance Centre, Tower 3, 30th Floor, Senapati Bapat Marg, Elphinstone Road (W) Mumbai – 400 013, India D: +91 22 6185 4842 | M: +91 98 1922 2835
[email protected]

Gaurav Jain

Gaurav is a Chartered Accountant having more than 15 years of post-qualification experience in the field of transfer pricing, also having worked on a wide range of inbound and outbound investment structuring.

He has extensive experience in the sectors of Natural resources, manufacturing, real estate, IT/ITES and auto ancillary. His areas of expertise include documentation, including CbCR, Master File and Local File, TP Planning and restructuring and litigation for a number of renowned multinational and Indian companies.

Gaurav has also represented various complex transfer pricing matters before the Indian tax authorities, also assisting in dispute resolution through Advance Pricing Agreements. He has also twice served as member of Committee on International Taxation, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Gaurav Jain

Walker Chandiok & Associates

L 41, Connaught Circus, New Delhi
110 001, India
+91 11 4278 7070
https://www.grantthornton.in/

Priya Mani Bhutani

Priya has more than 9 years of experience in the field of transfer pricing. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Bachelors in Economics and Management.

She has experience in transfer pricing documentation and compliance services, including CbCR and Master File and has also assisted clients in transfer pricing assessments and planning assignments. She has serviced conglomerates from the IT/ ITeS, Auto, Natural resources, real estate and Industrial goods manufacturing and trading sectors.

Priya has represented cases before the Transfer Pricing Officers and has assisted in representation before the DRP, CIT(A) and ITAT. Her experience also includes assisting clients with litigation avoidance mechanisms such as Advance Pricing Agreement and Safe Habour.

Priya Mani Bhutani

Walker Chandiok & Associates

L 41, Connaught Circus, New Delhi
110 001, India
+91 11 4278 7070
https://www.grantthornton.in/

Ritu Shaktawat

Ritu Shaktawat

Partner in the direct tax practice at Khaitan & Co

Ritu is a Partner in the tax practice at Khaitan & Co, a full service law firm in India. With over a decade in the profession, Ritu has advised clients in the areas of corporate and international taxation.

She focusses on matters involving transaction tax advisory, structuring and documentation of domestic, cross-border and global M&A deals having an India leg; complex interpretational issues pertaining to income characterisation and permanent establishment aspects; taxation of EPC contracts; taxability of the ever-evolving e-commerce business models; and funds taxation.

Over the years, Ritu has developed a deep understanding of transactional tax issues, which she supplements with cutting edge practical inputs.

Ritu Shaktawat

Ritu Shaktawat
Partner

Khaitan & Co

One Indiabulls Centre
13th Floor, Tower 1
841 Senapati Bapat Marg
Mumbai - 400 013
India

T : +91 22 6636 5000
F : +91 22 6636 5050

E : [email protected]
W : www.khaitanco.com

Sriram P. Govind

Sriram Govind, LL.M is a research and teaching associate and is pursuing his doctoral studies under the Doctorate in International Business Taxation (DIBT) programme at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, WU, Wien.

Sriram is an India-qualified tax lawyer who worked for over two years with the law firm, Nishith Desai Associates in Mumbai before completing the LL.M in International Tax Law from the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, WU, Wien in 2016.

His expertise includes tax treaty law and tax policy, tax structuring for complex cross-border transactions and tax controversies.

Sriram P. Govind
Sriram P. Govind
Ajit Kumar Jain

Ajit is a Chartered Accountant with a Masters in International Taxation from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria. He served in the Indian Revenue Service for 24 years.

Ajit is a litigator and has been arguing direct tax matters before Income Tax Tribunals since 2012. He has to his credit more than 500 cases on direct tax litigation, particularly transfer pricing, including arguing before the Special Bench in the case of Maersk.

Ajit has vast exposure to the Indian APA program as he was involved with the framing of the APA scheme.

Ajit Kumar Jain

Afaan Arshad

Nishith Desai Associates

Shreyash Shah

BMR Legal Advocates

Bhavik Timbadia

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Kuldeep Sharma

Kuldeep Sharma, ADIT (CIOT, UK) has over 30 years of working experience with the Income Tax Department at New Delhi. He is an expert in international taxation and transfer pricing with MLI and APA being his forte. His maiden book titled ‘MLI Made Easy’ is scheduled for release by Wolters Kluwer, the Netherlands and is available at
https://lrus.wolterskluwer.com/store/product/mli-made-easy/

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Rahul Jain is principal associate with Khaitan & Co, Mumbai, India
Sneh Shah is a principal associate at Khaitan & Co, Mumbai, India.