Timing: 10.30am to 5pm
Masterclass Agenda: 9th April 2015
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10.00 - 10.30: Registration Signoff
10:30 - 11.30: Indian Accounting Standards - Ind AS 2015: Important Guidelines Speaker - Shashikant Shenoy, Director, Accounting Advisory Services, KPMG Q&A 11.30 - 12.00: Tea Break 12.00 - 13.00: Budget 2015 - Impact on Real Estate Sector Speaker - Shashishekhar Chaugule, Partner, Walker Chandiok & Co 13.00 - 14.00: Networking Lunch 14.00 - 15.00: Taxation of Real Estate Transactions and Proposed Amendments to Taxation of RIETs and Invits Speaker - Sharavana BJ, Manager, BMR & Associates LLP Q&A 15.00 - 15.30: Real Estate Taxation on M&A's and JV's Speaker - Amithraj AN, Sr Manager M&A Tax , PricewaterhouseCoopers 15.30 - 16.00: Tea Break 16.00 - 17.00: Service Tax & VAT - Post Budget Speaker - Raman NV, Director, Grant Thornton India LLP Q&A |
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Faculty Profiles
Amithraj AN
Sr Manager M&A Tax, PricewaterhouseCoopers Amit is a Commerce Graduate, Law Graduate, Chartered Management Accountant (UK) and a Chartered Accountant. He is a rank holder in CA Final and CA Inter, with Gold Medal. Also rank holder in Graduation exams. He is currently working as a Senior Manager in the M&A Tax team in PwC, with over 10 years of experience in M&A. He has addressed various forums across India & is a visiting faculty at IIM Bangalore for Corporate Programs. He is also a faculty member for Master in Business Finance, conducted by the ICAI for chartered accountants. He has vast experience in handling range of corporate restructuring, outbound investment, exit planning, FEMA aspects, amalgamation, valuation, capital reduction, acquisition structuring assignments. |
Raman NV
Director, Grant Thornton India LLP Raman completed Masters in Law from National University of Singapore, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Bangalore University. His experience includes all facets of Central Excise, Service Tax, Customs and VAT including implications of cross border tax. He has hands-on experience in availing exemption emerging out of Treaty arrangements with other countries. Raman has expertise in Special Economic Zones & Technology Parks/Export Oriented Undertakings related matters right from Advisory to implementation of setting-up. --Raman has also handled various areas of work related to sectors such as Telecom, Energy, Pharmaceuticals, Entertainment, supply chain logistics, Manufacturing and Services by providing innovative but rigorous tax planning ideas. |
Sharavana BJ
Manager, BMR & Associates LLP Sharavana is a qualified chartered accountant and a commerce graduate and is currently associated as a manager with BMR & Associates LLP. He specialize in tax advisory, restructuring and litigation from a direct taxes perspective. He was previously engaged with a Big 4 for almost 5 years with specialization in the Mergers & Acquisitions space. He has a total of over 6 years’ experience in supporting clients on matters such as transaction structuring, corporate restructuring strategies, due diligences, outbound/ inbound investments and business remodeling. He is currently handling a portfolio of real estate and software clientele in Bangalore to provide regular and ongoing support on SEZ and tax matters, foreign exchange laws, corporate laws, acquisition related assistance and direct tax litigation support. |
Shashikant Shenoy
Director, Accounting Advisory Services, KPMG Shashikant Shenoy is the Director with the Accounting Advisory Services. Shashikant joined KPMG in 2004 and has over 10 years of overall professional experience in auditing, accounting and financial reporting. In 2005, Shashikant worked with firm’s London practice where he was involved in complex projects involving international reporting (IFRS and US GAAP). He assisted many companies in transitioning from UK GAAP to IFRS. Shashikant has been working with both large Indian business houses and multinationals, and has been involved in audits, finance transformation projects, conversion under US GAAP, Indian GAAP and IFRS, financial reporting process advisory projects, regulatory driven financial reporting change projects (Companies Act, Income and Computation Disclosure Standards (ICDS)), capital market advisory projects and restatement projects. |
Shashishekhar Chaugule
Partner, Walker Chandiok & Co Shashi Shekhar is a Chartered Accountant and a commerce graduate with more than 15 years' of experience in audit and consulting in varied fields of corporate tax and regulatory matters. Shashi specialises in advising clients on tax optimised business and operational structures. He is Bachelor of Commerce and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Shashi has been extensively involved in advising India inbound and outbound clients on tax efficient structuring and advisory. He also has a large portfolio of clients availing tax compliance services like corporate tax return preparation, representation before tax authorities and certifications. Shashi’s clients include companies from diverse sectors such as IT, Pharma, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Hospitality, Mining, Real Estate and High Networth Individuals. |
