Sessions
Pillar 2: Where are we, and how to deal with the staggered implementation around the world?
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Wed
Mukesh Butani is the Founder and Managing Partner of BMR Legal Advocates, a Tier 1 law firm. He served as Co-founder and Chairman of BMR Advisors, amongst India leading professional services firms, in the areas of Tax, Risk & M&A, which was featured in the Harvard Business Review case study, BMR Advisors – ‘Competitive on Quality’. Besides, Mukesh held leadership positions in two of the Big 4 firms.
With specialization in corporate international tax and transfer pricing, he has experience in advising multinationals and Indian conglomerates on a range of matters concerning business re-organizations, cross-border structuring, and tax controversy. He is an acknowledged expert in the area of international tax policy, controversy and advocacy and has to his credit several landmark judicial pronouncements and depositions before expert committees. He is an expert in issuing opinions, witness statements, examinations & cross-examination before appellate/arbitration forums. He has also deposed as an expert witness on contentious cross-border tax treaties, and TP matters in foreign jurisdictions.
Mukesh served as Vice-Chair of the ICC Paris Tax Commission and a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association and OECD BIAC.
Mukesh engages with Indian Government agencies and Thinktanks, NITI Aayog, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council & Invest India on public policy aspects.
A Fellow Chartered Accountant, he holds a double bachelor's in Accounting & Financial Management and a degree in Law, practising before Indian Tribunals and Courts. He serves as an Independent Board Member in leading Indian and multinational corporations.
He is a visiting faculty at the University of Vienna and the University of Lausanne. He shall be defending his thesis on ‘Allocation of Taxing Rights’ from the University of Lausanne Faculty of Law Justice and Public Administration. He has consistently featured in India Business Law Journal ‘A-List’ amongst India’s top 100 lawyers and in the FORBES India Legal Power list. He has to his credit several authorships.