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Mukesh Butani

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BMR Legal

705-706 International Trade Centre
Nehru Place, New Delhi- 110019
India

Tel: +91 124 339 5000
Fax: +91 124 339 5001
mukesh.butani@bmrlegal.in
www.bmradvisors.com

Mukesh is managing partner of the firm and chairman of BMR Advisors. With a specialisation in international tax and transfer pricing, he has over 25 years’ experience in advising Fortune 500 multinationals and Indian business houses on a wide range of matters relating to cross-border tax structuring, tax controversy and tax policy.

A former national tax director and international tax partner at two Big Four firms, Mukesh currently serves as a member of the board of Taxand, the world’s largest independent tax organisation, and as vice chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce Commission on Taxation. Most recently, Mukesh was inducted as a member of the International Fiscal Association Permanent Scientific Committee and OECD-BIAC committee. He is also a member of the OECD Business Restructuring Advisory Group.

Mukesh is an acclaimed expert on transfer pricing and has a number of publications to his credit – including works published by LexisNexis Butterworths and most recently, a treatise on Dispute Resolution for the Cambridge University Press. His other publications include the Wolters Kluwer CCH online guide to Transfer Pricing in Asia and titles on Business Restructurings and Customs Valuation, co-authored for the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD). Mukesh participated in the Kelkar task force tax reforms and was a member of the Indian Government’s committee on e-commerce taxation.

Mukesh has consistently featured among the leading international tax and transfer pricing advisers in independent surveys, most notably the International Tax Review, Legal Media expert guide, Asialaw Leading Lawyers and Legal Who’s Who of Corporate Tax Lawyers.

Mukesh is a graduate in commerce from the University of Mumbai and holds a bachelor’s degree in law. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1985 and is enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of India.