Vinod Kothari
Vinod Kothari is internationally recognized as an author, trainer and consultant on specialized financial subjects, viz., housing finance, securitisation, credit derivatives, accounting for financial instruments, structured finance, banking regulations etc. As such, he lectures all over the world. The locations where he has lectured on these subjects include New York, Washington, London, Milan, Frankfurt, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, Colombia (South America), South Africa, Malaysia, Jordan, Dubai, Kuwait, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, etc.
Mr. Kothari with his efficient team has handled very diverse groups – from rating agency professionals in Malaysia, to group of investors in Sydney, to tax officers in South Africa, to group of lawyers in India, to executives of the World’s largest securitisation agency in Washington, to a group of quants in New York.
Vinod Kothari through his firm Vinod Kothari and Company is also engaged in practice of corporate laws for over 30 years.
Our Team
Vinita Nair
Senior Associate, Vinod Kothari Consultants
Senior Partner, Vinod Kothari & Co.
Sikha Bansal
Senior Associate, Vinod Kothari Consultants
Senior Partner, Vinod Kothari & Co.
Qasim Saif
Senior Manager
Qasim, Associate Member of ICSI, member of the Institute of Management Accounts, USA, has been All India Topper in the Foundation stage and has been rank holder through the stages of the Company Secretaries examination. Qasim is our accounting standards, quant and financial modelling expert, and additionally covers consulting on leasing and structured finance, from legal and taxation viewpoints.
Shaivi Bhamaria
Associate
Shaivi is an Associate member of Institute of Company Secretaries of India and a Member of the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa. She is an Associate Legal Advisor at Vinod Kothari & Company. Her interest lies in corporate laws and litigation services.
Aisha Begum Ansari
Senior Manager
Aisha is an Associate Member of the ICSI. She secured AIR at all the stages of CS examination and has prior work experience at a reputed listed company, before joining us. Her interest lies in corporate advisory services including laws on insider trading and related party transactions.
Sharon Pinto
Senior Manager
Sharon is a commerce graduate from the University of Mumbai and an Associate Member of the ICSI. She has secured AIR at the Foundation stage of CS examination and has experience of working with a reputed listed company. Her interest lies in the field of corporate laws and has authored articles on corporate and securities law related topics which have been published in Taxmann and LawStreetIndia.
Aanchal Kaur Nagpal
Senior Manager
Aanchal is a commerce and law graduate from the University of Mumbai and an Associate member of the ICSI. She has been quoted in several articles published by news agencies. Her interests lie in the field of advisory and consultancy on corporate laws, such as CSR, market linked debentures, as well as RBI regulations, regulatory framework for NBFCs, fintech landscape, co-lending, etc. She has authored several articles on various subject matters including NBFCs, KYC, market linked debentures, corporate laws, etc.
Payal Agarwal
Senior Manager
Payal Agarwal is an Associate member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. She is actively engaged in advisory on corporate law matters including secretarial audits and other due diligence assignments of various companies. She is a regular author of articles on various topics involving corporate interest, published in various journals and blogs such ICSI Chartered Secretary journal, EIRC ICSI newsletter, IndiaCorpLaw, Taxmann, Law Street India Blog, Windpro (Indian Wind Power Association) etc, including articles on topics such as ESG and sustainability. She has also assisted in co-authoring the recent publication “Practitioners’ Guide to CSR“. She is a speaker on topics of corporate interest in various professional forums like ICAI-EIRC, ICSI-SIRC and EIRC as well as study circles like Madhya Kolkata Study Circle of ICSI.
Prapti Kanakia
Manager
Prapti is a commerce graduate from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University. She has secured AIR in CS foundation programme. She is the winner of All India Opinion writing competition organised by ICSI-CCGRT in June 2020. She has experience in handling private company compliances, drafting and vetting of documents and agreements. She has handled Income Tax Litigation matters with CIT(A) and ITAT and search and seizure matters under Income Tax. She also has experience in start-up compliances.
Subhojit Shome
Manager
Subhojit holds a post graduate degree, specialising in finance and accounting, from the University of Calcutta, and the CFA (India) Charter awarded by the ICFAI, India. He has over 12 years of global experience in securities markets (including exchange traded derivatives) and related financial services. Subhojit, currently, is engaged in providing advisory services in the areas of digital lending, regulatory risk management and FinTech.
Neha Malu
Manager
Neha is a Commerce Graduate and an Associate Member of the ICSI. She won the Best Participant and Best Presenter – Female awards in the 10th batch of CLDP organised by ICSI-NIRC. Neha’s areas of interest include insolvency law, corporate laws, corporate taxation. Neha has been invited as a guest speaker by ICSI-IIP. She has written various articles on diverse topics including group insolvency, cross border insolvency, auditor disqualification, board observer, key issues in liquidation etc. which have been published in IBBI Annual Publication, 2023 and corporate blogs like LSI, Taxmann and Insol International
Avinash Shetty
Asst. Manager
Avinash is a commerce graduate from the University of Pune and an Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). His interest lies in the field of advisory in corporate and securities laws. He has several academic awards including Best Presenter in MSOP Batch, Debate Competition, Moot Court, and has authored articles on corporate and securities law related topics which have been published in Taxguru, Taxmann and LawStreetIndia.