Santosh is a Director in the Transaction Tax Services division of Ernst & Young and is based in Bangalore, India. He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Licentiate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He has over 12 years of experience and more than 8 years in the area of Corporate re-organization, inbound and outbound structuring advisory, conducting tax due diligences, advisory on various M&A activity including buy back, capital reduction etc. He has been part of more than hundred tax due diligence exercise in various sectors including IT, hospitality, hotels, catering, auto components and other sectors. He has also been part of regulatory, tax, financial and business advisory related to group re-organization and restructuring activity. He has handled mergers, de-mergers across seven states in India. His experience includes advising on transaction structuring including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate restructuring, foreign investment consulting, tax due diligence and inbound acquisitions; Has experience on restructuring services include realignment and rationalization of organizational structure in tax and regulatory efficient manner.

Mr. Vaibhav Parikh is the Partner in – charge of the Bangalore office of the multi-skilled, research-based international law firm, Nishith Desai Associates (www.nishithdesai.com). He is Partner in-charge of the M&A and Private Equity practice groups. He also heads the Fund Investments practice group. He is a member of firm’s executive committee. He has a wide range of experience in corporate and technology transactions. He has advised several private equity and venture capital funds in their investments, specifically in e-commerce, technology, media and life sciences industry. He also has significant experience in M&A transactions including advising on India’s largest e-commerce transaction till date. He has been passionately involved in setting up operations and raising finance for several start-up companies. He is actively involved in the Intellectual Property Practice and is in charge of industry focus group for IT, Telecom, and Media. He has advised many leading Indian e-commerce companies in their operations from a legal and regulatory stand point. He has been nominated as one of Leading Lawyer in Private Equity Practice by IFLR1000 in the year 2013. He has also been nominated as one of the world’s leading practitioners in ‘Who’s Who Legal’ for Regulatory Communications. He is recommended by Legal 500 as an expert in TMT and competition law in 2014.

Mr Neeraj Dubey is a joint partner, Corporate Practice, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan. He is a corporate lawyer with over 11 years of legal experience encompassing vast gamut of business law, contract management, labour & employment laws, aviation and technology laws. He routinely counsels manufacturing and service industries on a vast range of compliances in all elements of commerce and business including contracts (negotiation, drafting and review), corporate governance, competition law, labour & employment, health & safety environment. Neeraj’s industry spreads across automobile, aviation, banking, chemicals, defense, energy, food, pharmaceuticals, information technology and waste management. Over the years, Neeraj has advised clients on entry strategies in India including choosing appropriate legal structures and their registration and licensing, conducted and advised legal audits and counselled on issues arising in due diligences. He possesses varied experience in drafting, reviewing legal documents and commercial contracts.

Mr. Jayant Tewari has been providing Out-Sourced CFO (Chief Financial Officer) Services to the Small & Medium Enterprises (Less than USD 5Mn Revenue level) encompassing all aspects of Financial Strategy, more often than not culminating in a Funding / Strategic Transaction. While he does not engage in Investment Banking, he has been instrumental in the over USD 55Mn of Equity Financing being raised by his clients over the last decade of his Practice. Prior to that he was a full-time CFO for 4 SME’s over a 10 year period and raised over USD 35 Mn of equity funding in that capacity. His practice is based on the belief that the technology and marketing functions are best dealt with by the Promoters, and Financial Strategy is an area where a natural gap exists in the promoter group – he has developed an affordable means to plug this gap .. Mr. Tewari and his practice have been covered in the past by The Hindu, The Times of India and the Economic Times. Mr Tewari is an MBA / ICWA with over 25 years of professional experience and began his career with the UB Group before moving into the SME space as a full-time CFO at the ripe old age of 30.

Nitin Gupta is expertise in advising clients in the areas of corporate restructuring, mergers/ demergers, slump sale, family settlements, estate planning. Highlights of his experience : ►Buy side / Sell side structuring advisory / SPA reviews ►Advisory on Indirect transfers to overseas clients arising out of overseas mergers / buybacks ►Advisory and implementation assistance to Indian listed entities on slump sale, hive off of business for introduction of investors ►Project Coordination services for reorganization of assets / holdings of a major business conglomerate among the family members in multi layered holding structure ►End to end advisory and implementation assistance (including project management) services to a manufacturing group for carve out of its businesses into separate verticals as per the family interests.