World Renowned Faculties
J L N Murthy, General Counsel, Red Bull India Pvt Ltd.
JLN Murthy is working as General Counsel, Asia Pacific for Red Bull India Pvt Ltd. He is a highly accomplished and seasoned legal professional with over 23 years and an effective communicator with exceptional relationship management skills & adept at maintaining cordial business relations with legal counsels and other external agencies.
Prior to joining Redbull, he has worked with various MNCs like Worked for MNC’s Whirlpool, Canon, ATFL ( Subsidairy of ConAgra Foods, Inc), Marico.
He is the Vice-Chairman of ABA Section International Commitees – International Judicial Affairs, International Intellectual Property Rights, Middle –East, Europe.He is also a Stering Group member of ABA Section of International Law – International Arbitration, International Corporate Counsel, International Antiturst Law, Russia/Eurasia, Un and International Organisation, Asia-Pacific, India Committee. He is a bonafide member of Indian Corporate Counsels Association and Asia- Pacific Corporate Counsel Association. He is a Governing Counsel Member of The International Centre for Alternate Dispute Resolution.
Jagvinder Singh Brar, Partner, KPMG Forensic
Jagvinder is a Partner with KPMG’s Forensic Practice, a forensic accountant and chartered business
valuator (with focus on damage quantification) in Canada with over 19 years of professional
accounting and financial evaluation experience. His experience includes 15 years in the private
sector in Canada and India, and four years at the Integrity Vice Presidency of the World Bank Group.
Besides, he practices in the matters of integrity of information, and regulatory environment and
cross-border investigations of fraud and corruption allegations.
He leads the government, regulatory and other internal investigations practice at KPMG and focuses
on the infrastructure sector. Jagvinder’s experience includes investigations and loss quantification in
various fraud and corruption cases. Jagvinder has experience handling engagements in a range of
jurisdiction and sectors including infrastructure, education, financial services, health, mining, service,
water and sanitation, etc.
Jagvinder has presented and delivered trainings on forensic accounting, investigations, anti-fraud and
anti-corruption measures to various private equity firms, corporates, law enforcement and
investigating agencies, anti-corruption commissions and supreme audit institutions in India and
various countries. He delivers sessions on white collar crime at the CBI Academy.
Select engagements:
– Various pre-transaction due diligence and forensic verifications for investor community
– Various post transaction investigations into the pharma, agriculture, infrastructure projects involving
embezzlement, fictitious per diems and travel expenses, self-dealing by awarding businesses to own shell
companies, hiring related parties vendors, receiving kickbacks from suppliers, and related falsification of
books and records.
– Investigation of a major highways project concerning allegations of fraud, bribery, corruption, collusion,
and kickbacks by roads contractors and supervision consultants in South Asia.
– Investigation of power project concerning allegations of foreign bribery through business intermediaries,
and related falsification of books and accounts in South Asia (Bangladesh and India)
Jamesy Laya, Partner, KPMG Advisory
Jamesy has close to 20 years of experience providing corporate finance advisory services to clients in the region advising on debt and equity financing, business and intellectual property valuation for investment decisions, trade transactions and M&A, restructuring and financial reporting. Jamesy has also been involved with the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) as part of its IP Finance Working Committee relating to the Singapore IP Competency Framework and as a business consultant under IPOS’ SCOPE IP programme.
Prior to KPMG, Jamesy was with the Commodity Structured Finance team at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and an investment house under the San Miguel group of the Philippines.
Jamesy holds a Master of Business Administration from IESE Business School in Spain and a Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering from the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.
Jatin Arora, Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt. Ltd.
Jatin has around 14 years of experience in tax and regulatory matters and specialising in indirect taxes. Prior to joining Deloitte, Jatin has practiced for 5 years as an legal counsel and has represented various clients before the adjudicating and appellate authorities He has advised clients on complex tax issues and helping them structure the supply chain efficiently . His forte lies in identifying tax issues, implementing processes for tax optimization, and conceptualizing tax efficient models.
He has been involved in various buy side and sell side due diligences for clients across various sectors like Infrastructure, IT ITES, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, Auto Components, Retail, FMCG, Hospitality etc.Advised global pharmaceutical company in business consolidation as well as in post implementation phase. Has been advising various Indian and multinational companies in handling issues concerning Indirect taxes and restructuring of business models to achieve tax efficiency.
Jay Parikh, Partner, L&L Partners
Jay Parikh is a Partner at L&L Partners’ Mumbai office. Previously, Jay has been a Partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (Mumbai). Before that, he was a founder-partner of Verus and was Co-head of the firm’s corporate advisory & transactions practice. Prior to founding Verus, Jay worked at Bharucha & Partners having joined as part of the founding team from (the erstwhile) Amarchand Mangaldas (Mumbai) where he started his career.
Jay’s practice encompasses General Corporate, M&A, Joint Ventures, Banking & Finance, Insolvency & Restructuring and Private Equity,
His M&A experience includes both buy and sell-side representations involving private as well as public listed companies in transactions that are either by way of private arrangements or auction process. Jay has substantial experience in cross-border (i.e. both inbound and outbound) M&A, PE and Joint Venture transactions. He has also advised both global and domestic private equity funds on investment transactions in Indian companies.
He has worked across a broad range of sectors such as financial services, telecoms, manufacturing, industrials and consumer / consumer tech.
Jayant Kumaar, Director, KPMG India Private Limited
Jayant is a Director with KPMG’s Deal Advisory business and as part of his other roles leads both the ecommerce as well as venture capital verticals for the practice. Having spent around a decade at KPMG, Jayant has advised numerous large as well as mid size clients on successful transactions. Some of his key clients have included Hero, Spice, Sistema, GeTiT amongst others. From an ecommerce perspective, he is currently advising numerous businesses, across the online grocery, overstock, food review and delivery verticals on raising capital (series A and series B rounds) from venture capitalists.
Jayna Gandhi, Chief Manager Treasury, National Stock Exchange of India Limited
Jayna has over all experience of 17 years covering majorly in Treasury & Finance in National Stock Exchange of India Limited. She is also Managing Fixed Income treasury portfolio of NSEIL, its group and subsidiary companies including PF Trusts with an average size of Rs.7,000 cr.(Pick AUM Rs.15,000 cr.) with a mix of passive and active management. She also has experience of conducting trainings with CFA Institute and ICAI.
Jayna has extensive exposure in Govt. Securities, State Development Loans, Commercial Papers, Certificate of Deposits, Taxable & Tax free Bonds, mutual funds (liquid, ultra short term, short term, income etc.), Fixed Deposits etc.. In case of PF- G Sec, SDL.
Josephine Hong, Director, Valuation Advisory Services, RSM Corporate Advisory Pte Ltd
Josephine is a Chartered Accountant, Singapore as well as an International Certified Valuation Specialist (ICVS). She has more than 8 years of experience in the area of financial advisory services. Prior to joining RSMCA she was a Director with the Valuations team at KPMG Corporate Finance in Singapore.
Josephine has broad experience advising on a range of corporate finance assignments. She has completed over 250 assignments including enterprise valuations, intangible assets and intellectual property valuations, purchase price allocations, impairment, employee stock options, expert witness reports, mergers and acquisitions as well as transaction advisory services.
Her industry expertise includes healthcare, telecommunications, real estate, financial services, manufacturing, agriculture, retail, consumer goods and logistics. Her regional experience spans across China, Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and South Korea.
She has also performed numerous valuation review of various investments held by large sovereign wealth funds and private equity funds in the energy, logistics, education, technology and real estate sector.
K Balasubramanian, Vice President, and Global Head - Corporate Taxation, Wipro
K V Ramanand, Partner, KPMG India Pvt Ltd
KV Ramanand has 18 years of investment banking experience. He currently leads the Corporate Finance practice of KPMG in South India. Prior to KPMG, he has worked with Ernst & Young for over 9 years and with Ind Global Financial Trust, a boutique Investment Bank for over 4 years.
During his 18 years of experience he had worked extensively on Mergers & Acquisition and Private Equity funding transactions. He successfully assisted various companies in their fund raising exercise both from the public and private equity markets. Hehas worked on multiple cross border transactions (inbound and outbound) across regions in the US.