Karan is the founder of Bombay Law Chambers and has over 15 years of experience in the legal industry, having worked in house as well as with one of Indian most prestigious law firm Nishith Desai Associates, where along with being a leader of the M&A and PE practices, he also led the banking and financial services vertical.

His practice focuses largely on domestic and cross border venture capital and private equity transactions, M&As, JVs and structured finance along with providing regulatory and general corporate advice. Karan works across sectors and has domain expertise in financial services, technology, e-commerce, healthcare, renewables and core manufacturing. Further, Karan also has the experience working with one of the largest private banks in India, working across various verticals.

Karan completed his B.SL. LL.B. from Symbiosis Law School, Pune and has also pursued a masters from Northwestern University – Pritzer School of Law and Kellogg School of Management. He is eligible to practice law both in India and New York, USA.

Karan has regularly been recognised by various legal directories such as IFLR 1000, Legal 500 and the Financial Times - RSG Consulting Survey.

Anil is a Partner with Deloitte India and is a part of the M&A Tax group. He has over 28 years of experience in handling matters pertaining to Indian tax and regulatory.  He is a Chief Growth Officer for Tax in Deloitte South Asia region. Anil has been seconded to the London office of Deloitte where he has obtained international work experience. He has worked with the Deloitte UK M&A Tax team. He specialises in matters under the direct tax laws which have been in force in India, including international taxation.

Anil has also been involved in conducting tax due diligence and tax structuring assignments of various clients including listed companies in India. He has been providing tax structuring advise to several upstream companies in India with regard to their outbound investments.

Anil has been speaking on various public forums on taxation. He has been writing articles published in various newspapers and technical magazines.

Sridhar has over 24 years post qualification experience in tax and regulatory matters. A significant part of his career was spent in Delhi where he gained expertise in dealing with complex and varied tax and regulatory matters of multinational corporations. He shifted to Chennai in 2006 and prior to joining the Firm, ran a boutique consulting firm which specialized in tax, regulatory and M&A functions.

Sridhar is a tax partner in Grant Thornton LLP where he is responsible for the tax practice of Chennai and Kochi offices. He also responsible for the Transaction Tax practice of the firm for South India. Some of his key experiences include:

• Assistance in planning and execution of very large investments in India in the Special Economic Zones/ Free Trade Zone Models.
• Assistance in structuring foreign direct investments in various sectors including Special Economic Zones, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trading, e-commerce, financial services, infrastructure, real estate etc. in a tax efficient and regulatory compliant manner.
• Assistance in setting up business entities in India for various businesses in Company, partnership and LLP forms, including in Special Economic Zones (sector specific, free trade zones or multi product/ service units) or domestic units.
• Assistance in setting up offices abroad, making overseas investments and structuring acquisitions

Sridhar is a regular speaker at forums across India, including the ICAI, ICSI and various trade/professional bodies where he speaks on foreign direct investment policy, exchange control law, special economic zones and income-tax law. He has contributed to Policy making on the Special Economic Zone laws across state and central government agencies.

He is the author of a book on Exchange Control Law in India published by Bloomsbury.