Background

Prasanna is a Chartered Accountant and a commerce graduate from RKM Vivekananda College.

Prior to M2K, he had worked atBig 4 firms (PwC and KPMG) for almost 9 years in Corporate and International Tax and Transfer Pricing Services.

Prasanna had won ‘FIT Fellowship Scheme’ from Foundation of International Tax (FIT) for the year 2018 and 2019.

He is a regular speaker in ICAI, Study circles and International Fiscal Association and contributed articles on contemporary issues.

Currently, holding the post of Treasurer, IFA – Southern Region

Professional experience

Worked on various kinds of tax and regulatory assignments including advising clients on inbound and outbound investments, suitable holding jurisdictions, suitable business models etc.

Advised and implemented transactions viz.. share transfers, slump sale, mergers and demergers.

Handled compliances (return, assessment and Form 3CEB) and represented the clients before lower appellate authorities and briefed Senior Counsels on tax matters.

Advised client on business modelling and appropriate pricing from transfer pricing perspectives for automotive, trading, pharma and service sector companies (IT/ITeS/Contract R&D, Engineering design) etc.

Background

Pavan is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with a post qualification experience of 14 years.

Prior to M2K, he had worked atKPMG, Ernst & Young & Deloitte for almost 10 years in the Tax & Regulatory, Transfer Pricing & Litigation services.

He holds a Certificate in Forensic Accounting & Fraud Detection from the ICAI.

He is also a graduate in Law and currently pursuing Post Graduation Diploma in Cyber Laws from NALSAR and US taxation course of the IRS.

Professional experience

He has worked on various kinds of tax and regulatory assignments including advising on chargeability of income, deductibility of expenses, applicability of withholding tax on various payments including payments to non-residents, filing corporate and wealth tax returns.

He has handled compliance with respect to transfer pricing, CbCr.

He has advised various clients on the corporate tax matters, international taxation, transfer pricing, BEPS etc

He has represented clients before the tax and appellate authorities such as DRP, ITAT and has been successful in bringing relief to clients.

His strength lies in representation of clients before the tax authorities and bringing out favourable orders.

Background

Sathya is an Associate Chartered Accountant and a commerce graduate from the University of Madras.

He had worked at Deloitte Haskins & Sells for over 4 years in the Audit & Assurance team, and

He has also been part of Pfizer for about 3 years in the profile of Direct Tax and International Tax.

Professional experience

He is experienced in audit and review of financial statements under IFRS, Ind AS and Indian GAAP, Due-diligence, Internal Controls Assessment, Tax Audit and Special Purpose Assurance Engagements, across clients in Automotive, Manufacturing, Technology (Software) and Construction sectors.

He has extensively worked on various direct tax and transfer pricing compliances, tax audit, transfer pricing report, filing of return of income, evaluation of withholding taxes on payments to non-residents, and advance pricing agreement.

He has also been responsible for handling assessment and appellate proceedings, tax optimization strategies, tax accounting and maintenance of related internal controls.

Background

Swetha is an Associate Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary and a commerce graduate from the University of Madras.

Prior to M2K

Professional experience

She has a rich experience in providing tax and regulatory advisory on business restructuring, inbound & outbound investments, exit opportunities, cash repatriation strategies, etc. for clients across a range of industries.

She has advised on certain international tax matters such as withholding tax on payments to non-residents, permanent establishment exposure, place of effective management exposure etc.

She has assisted corporate clients in preparing computation of income and tax payable and preparation and filing of tax returns.

She has demonstrated exceptional research skills which aids her to handle varied nature of assignments with ease.

Background

Rohit is an Associate Chartered Accountant and a commerce graduate from the University of Madras.

He has been with M2K for around 4 years gaining expertise in Direct Tax services.

He did his articleship at M2K wherein he had worked on various advisory and compliance engagements.

Professional experience

He had extensively worked on various kinds of tax and regulatory matters which include tax returns, transfer pricing compliances, compliances for charitable trusts, etc.,

He has also worked on various assessments and appeals and represented clients before tax authorities and lower appellate authorities.

He has worked on various advisory engagements which include withholding tax implications on payments to non-residents, deductibility of certain expenses, etc.,

He has also worked on various compliance and advisory engagements under the Singapore regulations.

Background

Vivek is an Associate Chartered Accountant and a Commerce Graduate from the University of Madras.

He has been with M2K for around 4 years focusing on Tax and Corporate laws . He was awarded as a Star Performer by the firm for his exceptional performance.

He has also worked on advisory engagements involving United States Tax Laws.

He has keen interest in sports and had represented his School in various sports tournaments including the National level Volleyball Tournament.

Professional experience

He has an all-round experience in Advisory, Compliance and Litigations in Direct Tax.

He has been part of various advisory engagements (including restructuring of a large group with entities in multiple countries, family arrangements, set up of business etc) involving multiple domains of laws and regulations.

He has hands on experience in working in TRACES Portal and has been instrumental in clearing TDS defaults pertaining to over a decade in the case of a large MNC with voluminous transactions.

He is well known for his art of articulating the facts, and neat presentation of evidences supporting the factual submissions, and obtaining favorable orders in income tax assessments and appeals.

He has also helped clients, in obtaining export incentive benefits under the Foreign Trade Policy and in compliance related to STPI.

Background

Ankita is an associate and commerce graduate from M.O.P Vaishnav College for Women.

She has done her specialisation in Accounting and finance. Prior to M2K, she had interned at Tulsi Foods and Akkanksha Foundation as an accounting and marketing intern.

She has presented various papers for National Summits and conference during her training period. Apart from accounting, she has a keen understanding about the field of marketing and coding.

Professional experience

She has worked on various compliance and advisory engagements under the Singapore regulations.

She has handled assignments like advisory on GST implications, withholding tax implications on payments to non-residents, deductibility of certain expenses, etc.,

She has assisted corporate clients in preparing computation of income and tax payable and preparation and filing of tax returns.

Her primary area of work also includes Incorporation of companies, preparing withholding tax and GST returns, assisting in preparation of legal documents in compliance with Singapore regulations.

Background

Aishwarya is an Advocate enrolled with the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. She graduated law college with distinction and was a university rank holder through the 5 years.

Prior to M2K, she had worked at IC Universal Legal for more than 3 years in the corporate and transactional team and is also engaged in independent legal practice.

She is also a member of Nani Palkhivala Arbitration Centre and is part of the Editorial Board of its newsletter ‘Dispute Resolutions’.

Professional experience

Her primary areas of practice include private equity & venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, general corporate & regulatory and real estate.

She has advised domestic and foreign clients for deals across diverse sectors such as pharmaceutical, technology and software services, e-commerce, non-banking finance, agri-tech and fin-tech.

She has assisted clients in conducting legal due diligences, preparing legal opinions, drafting / negotiating commercial contracts.

Background

Sushmitha is a Company Secretary from Institute of Company Secretaries of India and a commerce graduate from G.S.S Jain College for Women.

Prior to M2K, she had worked at TVS Motors as a Senior executive and was a Company Secretary of TVS Training and Services Limited for around 2 years. She is also engaged in independent Secretarial practice.

She was also a part of M. Damodaran and Associates during her training period.

Professional experience

Her primary areas of practice include Incorporation of Companies, Audits, Certifications, Listing Compliances, FEMA Compliances, acting as Scrutinizer, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate and Allied Laws Advisory, RBI Compliances and other event-based compliances.

She has also handled assignments like Conversion of Companies, Listing of Debt Securities for Unlisted Companies, Trademark.

She has assisted clients in conducting legal due diligences, preparing legal opinions, drafting.

Background

Abishek is a senior associate and commerce graduate from D.G. Vaishnav College.

Prior to M2K, he had worked at GK Vaid & Associates as a junior compliance associate.

He has gained expertise in Direct Tax services for around 3 years.

He has keen interest in sports and had represented his School in various sports tournaments including State level Athletics and Kho-Kho tournaments.

Professional experience

He has assisted individual clients in preparing computation of income and tax payable and preparation and filing of tax returns.

He has assisted in merger of private companies and has also helped clients in implementing the same smoothly.

He was also involved on various engagements relating to succession / inheritance planning for large families/ groups enabling them to achieve their objectives in a tax efficient manner.

He has also been engaged in FEMA reporting compliances for various clients.

He has also worked on various bank audit, tax audit, payroll audit.