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Shefali Goradia

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BMR Advisors


3F Contractor Building
41 R Kamani Marg, Ballard Estate
Mumbai- 400001, India

Tel: +91 22 3021 7170
Fax: +91 22 3021 7070
shefali.goradia@bmradvisors.com
www.bmradvisors.com


Shefali is a partner with the firm’s corporate tax practice in Mumbai. With a specialisation in cross border taxation, she has over 20 years of experience in international tax.

Shefali is extensively involved in advising multinational corporations on a range of issues in designing global holding and operating structures, structuring inbound and outbound investments, cross border mergers, acquisitions and other corporate reorganisations. She is heavily involved in developing and implementing domestic and international fund structures for leading investment and private equity fund houses. In addition, her work also covers taxation advice to several pharmaceutical companies and software taxability and e-commerce advisory services to the IT industry. Within the financial services industry, she has advised banks in designing structured finance products.

Shefali has most recently been conferred as one of Asia’s pre-eminent lawyers for taxation in the 2011 AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers Survey and has featured in the Who’s Who of Corporate Tax Lawyers and The Private Funds Lawyers for the third consecutive year in 2011. She is a regular writer and lecturer on international tax topics, having contributed to the India chapter on ‘Is there a Permanent Establishment?’ for the 63rd IFA Congress in Vancouver, 2009. She is also a member of the Core Group on International Tax of the Bombay Chartered Accountants’ Society.

Shefali is a commerce graduate from the University of Mumbai and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1991.