Our partners/directors are qualified professionals and reputed experts in their respective domains and have many years of experience in the arena of advisory and consulting.
Ajay Sethi, FCA, Managing Partner
Ajay Sethi is the founder and the guiding spirit who has given the organisation an enviable growth since inception. With over 20 years of experience in Taxation and Financial Advisory Services, he strategizes entry of foreign companies into India and identifies potential joint venture partners.  He advises on business negotiations, foreign exchange regulations, international tax treaties, business valuations and financial modelling.

He is an active speaker at national and international forums and a member of various trade chamber committees.

ajay.sethi@asa.in
 
 
Anil Mehta, FCA, Partner
Anil Mehta guides the Mumbai office. With over 35 years of professional experience, he is an expert on assurance and internal control reviews, business, tax advisory and due diligence. He has wide experience in audits, SOX, JSOX etc.

anil.mehta@asa.in
 
 
Himanshu Srivastava, FCA, Partner
Himanshu Srivastava leads the team which strategizes and manages entry of foreign companies into India viz initial planning, obtaining regulatory approvals, assistance in land acquisition, environmental clearances, etc. He also assists companies in joint venture documentation and negotiations. He is well versed with Indian corporate laws, with expertise in exchange control regulations. He heads the Japan desk of the firm.

himanshu.srivastava@asa.in
 
 
J Sivasankaran, FCA, CISA (USA), Grad CWA, Partner
J Sivasankaran guides the Chennai office. He carries over 30 years of professional experience in assurance and taxation, including audits of large banks and public sector undertakings. He routinely advises clients on investment structuring, business negotiations, valuation and M&A matters.

j.siva@asa.in
 
 
K Venkatraman, FCA, DISA, Partner
K Venkatraman carries over 30 years professional experience including Audit of banks and large scale public enterprises. He specialises in Indian direct taxes viz tax advisory, investment structuring, tax treaty matters, transfer pricing and related litigation.

k.venkat@asa.in
 
 
Malav J Ajmera, FCA, Partner
Malav J Ajmera guides the Ahmedabad office. He carries more than 8 years experience in Tax and Regulatory Compliances and in assisting clients in their statutory compliances, handles tax litigations for direct and indirect tax matters.

malav.ajmera@asa.in
 
 
P Nitish, FCA, Partner
P Nitish is in an expert in Tax and Regulatory Compliance and routinely assists clients in their statutory compliances, payroll management and exchange control matters. He carries 30 years experience in practice, including auditing and internal control reviews.

p.nitish@asa.in
 
 
Parveen Kumar, FCA, DISA, C-IFRS (UK), Partner
Parveen Kumar is an expert in assurance and internal control reviews with diverse experience in SOX, JSOX and IFRS. He has an experience of over 20 years in conducting audits of banks, private and public sector companies.

parveen.kumar@asa.in
 
 
PN Ramachandra Kamath, FCA, Partner
PN Ramachandra Kamath guides the Kochi office. He carries 25 years of professional experience in Indian company law, audits and tax. He is an active member of various committees of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Kochi.

pnr.kamath@asa.in
 
 
PR Jayakumar, FCA, Partner
PR Jayakumar guides the Bengaluru office. He is an expert in assurance and internal control reviews, with more than 25 years experience in business and tax advisory, due diligence, company law matters, SOX, JSOX and structuring investments into India.

pr.jayakumar@asa.in
 
 
Rajiv Arya, FCA, Partner
Rajiv Arya is an expert in Indian Company law, and advises clients on regulatory compliances in India, exchange control, representation before Reserve Bank of India, Company law authorities, related ministries and government agencies. Has more than 20 years experience in guiding businesses post their set-up in India.

rajiv.arya@asa.in
 
 
Sateesh Kulkarni, MBA, Director
Sateesh Kulkarni heads the Market Intelligence division. He specialises in assessing the Indian economy and its prospects, conducting research and evaluation studies across a range of industries including automobiles, food processing, logistics, consumer durables etc. With over 25 years of experience, he also undertakes evaluation studies for internationally funded social sector projects in India and has assisted in the India visits of high level trade missions from USA, UK, Japan, Israel, Mexico, Switzerland, Spain, etc.

He is an active speaker and member of various trade chamber committees.

sateesh.kulkarni@asa.in
 
 
Sunil Arora, FCA, Partner
Sunil Arora is an expert in Indian direct taxes viz tax advisory, investment structuring, transfer pricing and tax litigation and has an experience of over 10 years in handling international tax matters. He has extensive experience in representing matters before the Indian tax authorities and is an active speaker at national and international forums.

sunil.arora@asa.in
 
 
Sundeep Gupta, FCA, Partner
Sundeep Gupta is an expert in Tax and Regulatory Compliances and routinely assists clients in their statutory compliances, payroll management and exchange control matters. He carries an experience of over 20 years in practice as well as industry, last being that as Vice President (Finance) with a large Indian pharmaceuticals company.

sundeep.gupta@asa.in
 
 
Tatsundo Maki, CPA, Japan, Director
Tatsundo Maki specialises in entry strategy, tax advisory, due diligence services and advisory on the investment between Japan and India. He carries an experience of over 15 years in Investment, Accounting, Tax, M&A and IPO Consulting transactions. He has provided financial consulting services to several listed and non-listed companies and is an active speaker.

maki@scsglobal.co.jp
 
 
 
Conducted several business and financial valuations under various accepted methods of valuation and determining a range of fair value for the purpose of internal structuring...
Assisted a Japanese advertising agency in their negotiations with an Indian partner for setting up a joint venture company...
Conducted several partner searches for various organisations, whereby assisted them in identifying business partners viz distributors, retailers, manufacturers etc for their products...
A media company had overlooked certain compliance requirements in the past and engaged us to carry out a detailed analysis...
Carried out due-diligence for a well known spa, as also assisted them in the transfer of shares (it being a foreign entity) and connected demat problems...