Harish Mahajani

Partner, Direct Tax

Education: FCA, L.L.B.

Harish has been working for almost five decades with us in the field of Direct Tax. He has advised clients on various intricate compliance, regulatory and business restructuring issues. He has successfully represented several leading corporates across Automobile Manufacturing and Distribution, Construction, Engineering, Finance and Pharmaceuticals in litigation before the Appellate Tribunal, involving major and complex Domestic Tax and Transfer Pricing issues.

He has successfully represented clients on issues such as revenue recognition from construction contracts and time-share arrangements, tax treatment of investment subsidy, weighted deduction for uncertified expenditure on scientific research, depreciation on leased assets and other assets entitled to higher rates of depreciation, disallowance made contrary to the principles of natural justice, striking down for lack of jurisdiction of orders of revision and reassessment and several aspects of disallowance under section 14A.

Kalpesh Unadkat

Partner, Direct Tax

Education: FCA, L.L.B., CWA

Kalpesh has been working for over two decades, advising clients on tax treaty interpretation and domestic tax matters. He has worked in sectors such as Manufacturing, Banking and Finance, Engineering, Procurement and Construction and Pharmaceuticals.

He is an expert in both Domestic and International Taxation, Investment Restructuring (including inbound strategies and profit repatriation strategies), Transaction Services (including structuring of acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, curve-outs and due diligence), Succession Planning and establishment of Trusts, Taxation of REITs/IVITs/AIFs, FIPs.

He has represented clients before the Income-Tax Authorities and Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal and has also assisted in obtaining advance rulings before the AAR.

Ravi Onkar

Partner, Direct Tax

Education: M.Com., FCA, CWA

Ravi has been working for three decades with us in Domestic and International Taxation. He began his career in corporate audits and after gaining relevant experience in commercial accounting, Ravi started handling various tax assignments for his industrially diverse clients.

He has serviced clients by providing opinions on tax matters and representing clients before the Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal and Income-Tax Authorities. He has represented clients in complex legal propositions and pressing contemporary issues related to tax. He has also handled many Transfer Pricing assignments of large companies. He has been a regular contributor and spokesperson at the ICAI and has been a member of a coveted group at the ICAI, which prepared the Guidance Note on Tax Audit.

Abhay Kumar

Partner, Direct Tax

B. Com. ACA, PGDBA, ADIT, CIOT-UK

Abhay is a Partner with the Tax practice. He has around 20 years of professional experience in larger consulting firms, including Big 4, exclusively in the transfer pricing and cross border taxation domain. His transfer pricing work includes formulation of global as well as domestic Transfer Pricing Policies; Transfer Pricing Restructuring; Advisory, Litigation and Compliance Services.

Abhay has experience in handling APA assignments in agro-commodity and telecom industry. He has worked for companies in various sectors including IT & ITeS, Telecommunication, Media & Entertainment, Manufacturing. He has handled complex transactions structuring from transfer pricing perspective and successfully defended client’s transfer pricing positions before the revenue authorities. He has been a speaker on Transfer Pricing matters in seminars organised by various bodies. He has also contributed several articles on International Tax and Transfer Pricing in subject specific journals like Taxmann, Taxsutra etc. He is also handling domestic corporate tax assignments for several clients across industries.

Himanshu Goradia

Partner, Assurance

Education: B. Com., FCA

Himanshu is an accomplished CA backed by 29 years of post-qualification experience and over 13 years’ experience as a Partner in the Assurance Practice of a large multinational accounting firm.

He has serviced listed and large unlisted clients in financial auditing across Retail and Consumer, FMCG and Pharmaceuticals working extensively with Boards and Audit Committees.

He has strong technical knowledge of International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) and Audit Methodology based on ISAs and has a track records of identifying financial and compliance related control weaknesses and formulating recommendations.

Aniruddha Joshi

Partner, Assurance

Education: B. Com., ACA

Aniruddha come with over 30 years of professional experience in the industry as well as in consulting.

He has professional experience of more than 15 years in assurance related services covering manufacturing, real estate and financial Services (NBFC) sectors and is also involved in capital market related transactions such as QIP, rights issue etc. He is well versed in audits under SAP and other ERP environments.

Clients managed by him include large corporates in the Real Estate, FMCG, Financial Services and Chemical sectors and Auto Component sectors.

Shirish Rahalkar

Partner, Assurance

Education: B. Com., FCA, DISA

Shirish has been working in Assurance, Risk Advisory and Corporate Finance with us for over a decade and a half. His core expertise is in Financial Due Diligence and Valuations. He has worked extensively in Manufacturing, Engineering and Financial Services (including insurance companies).

He has had exposure to audits of IPOs/QIPs listed both in India and on international stock exchanges. His clients range from small non-profits to large companies.

Amit Mahadik

Partner, Assurance

Education: B. Com., ACA

Amit is based out of our Pune office and deeply involved in the assurance services. He comes with over 16 years of experience in the field of audit and accounting advisory including 13 years with large multinational accounting firms. He has worked extensively in sectors such as manufacturing, retail, healthcare, education and financial services to large domestic and multinational business groups including many listed entities. He has been a part of audits of mutual funds, NBFCs and insurance companies. He has assisted large companies in the conversion process from previous GAAPs to IFRS and Ind AS.

Karthik Srinivasan

Partner, Assurance

Education: B.Com, ACA

Karthik Srinivasan has more than 17 years of experience in the field of statutory audits, tax audits, IFRS and risk advisory including 11 years with large multinational accounting firms. He has been with the firm for about five years.

Karthik has worked extensively with clients in Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI), Manufacturing, Information Technology, IT Enabled Services, Chemicals, Automobiles belonging to large domestic and multinational business groups including listed entities, both domestic and overseas. Karthik has also worked in statutory reporting team of a multinational company and has helped them in designing the financial statements template under IFRS.

He has strong technical knowledge of International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) and Audit Methodology based on ISAs.

R Kumaravel

Senior Director, Indirect Tax

Education: B.Sc., CMA, LLB

Kumaravel has been in the field of Indirect Taxation for over three and a half decades with an expertise in GST. He has worked extensively in Manufacturing - Auto Parts, Watches, Jewellery, Petroleum, Oil and Gas, Steel, Telecom, Shipping and Logistics and Construction and Consulting. His core expertise lies in Excise, Customs, Service Tax, Sales Tax, VAT, FTP and other such Indirect Taxes. He has assisted large business houses in litigation and Indirect Tax Compliance.

He has also conducted Indirect Tax Audits and Advisory engagements of large Indian and Multinational companies and he is currently working on VAT Audits, GST Reviews and GSR related Advisory and Compliance Services as well as Litigation Support for leading Indian companies.