Mukesh Butani

India
International Tax, Transfer Pricing

Mukesh Butani is a member of the Taxand Board. He is also the key Indian member of Taxand’s global transfer pricing team. Mukesh is based in Taxand India where he is a partner and tax practice leader of BMR Advisors—India’s leading independent firm of tax advisors. He is an acknowledged expert in international tax and transfer pricing, with more than 23 years’ experience advising several Fortune 500 multinationals on various cross-border tax structuring, transfer pricing, mergers and acquisitions, and investment structuring matters. Mukesh is the former tax practice leader and international tax partner at a Big 4 firm.

Mukesh regularly interacts with India's Inland Revenue, CBDT, and is a member of OECD's Business Restructuring Advisory Group and ICC, Paris Taxation Commission. He actively participates in Indian affairs of the International Fiscal Association and has been its Secretary General. Mukesh is a regular speaker at significant national and international tax conferences. He regularly contributes to leading tax journals, including ITR, Asia-Pacific guide of IBFD. LexisNexis Butterworths recently published his treatise ‘Transfer Pricing-An Indian Perspective'. He is actively associated with IFA India's International Fiscal Academy.

For the past four years, Mukesh has been consistently rated amongst leading individual tax advisors in India by ITR. The World Tax 2006 and 2007 guides to leading tax firms have rated him as leading tax advisor. He is also noted in Legal Media Group Expert Guides to the World's Leading Tax and Transfer Pricing Advisors. Mukesh has a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from the University of Bombay and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1985.

Areas of Expertise

• International Tax
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Cross-border Tax Structuring and Transactions
• Transfer Pricing

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