Our Associate Partner, Ankit Namdeo is a qualified lawyer and a member of the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa. He leads our operations in Mumbai Region. He graduated from Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University, Lucknow (RMLNLU) and has an experience of over 7 years in advising clients on international taxation, and tax litigation. He has advised clients on various taxation issues in relation to various inbound and outbound investments, group restructuring, business transfers, franchise agreements, EPC contracts, permanent exposure to foreign companies etc.
He has seamlessly assisted corporate practices on tax issues surrounding complex M & A transactions, undertaking a risk assessment for tax issues, drafting of transaction documents from tax perspective and negotiating tax positions and indemnity. Ankit has extensively assisted clients on formulation of tax litigation strategy before tax authorities and represented them before appellate authorities including High Courts and Income-tax Appellate Tribunal. Ankit has been advising clients in structuring and implementation of stock options, cross border estate planning structures and tax exemption status for charitable organizations.
Ankit has been actively involved in presentations at National and International conferences. He had co-conducted a discussion on ‘Advance Pricing Agreements at National Judicial Academy, Bhopal in January 2016 and co-conducted certificate course on Multilateral Instrument organized by the Chamber of Tax Consultants, Mumbai, 2018.
He has published various articles on international taxation published by Taxsutra, CCH Wolters Kluwer, and Bloomberg BNA. He has co-authored, the chapter, ‘Other anti-avoidance measures’ for 4th edition of Compendium on International taxation, published in February 2021 by the Chamber of Tax Consultants, Mumbai.