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.

Vinita holds a degree in Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai University, Maharashtra, MS (Finance) from ICFAI university and is a Fellow Member of the ICSI. Her core area of practice is Companies Act, SEBI Regulations, FEMA Regulations and laws applicable to the BFSI sector. Read more.

Abhirup Ghosh,
Principal Advisor, Vinod Kothari Consultants
Partner, Vinod Kothari & Co.

Abhirup is a commerce graduate from the University of Calcutta and an Associate Member of the ICSI. His core areas of expertise include non-banking financial regulations, leasing, housing finance, corporate debt restructuring, fintech and other lendtech products, accounting for financial instruments, etc. Read more.

Sikha Bansal,
Senior Associate, Vinod Kothari Consultants
Senior Partner, Vinod Kothari & Co.

Sikha is a Commerce Graduate and is an Associate Member of the ICSI and had secured AIR in examinations conducted by the Institute. She has qualified ICWAI examinations as well. Sikha’s core area of expertise include insolvency law, law on security interests, corporate laws and financial regulations. She is known for her intensive legal analysis and drafting skills. Read more.

Anita Baid,
Vice President , Vinod Kothari Consultants

Anita, a commerce graduate from the University of Calcutta and an Associate Member of the ICSI, is a leader at our financial services team, handling client services on non-banking financial regulations, leasing, housing finance, new age lending, etc. Anita has done comprehensive writing and speaking on financial sector regulations. Read more.

Nitu Poddar,
Partner, Vinod Kothari & Co.

Nitu, BBA, is an Associate Member of the ICSI. Her core area of practice is Companies Act, SEBI Regulations and corporate litigation. Nitu leads our Delhi office. Read more.

Barsha Dikshit,
Partner, Vinod Kothari & Co.

Barsha is an Associate Member of the ICSI. Currently handling resolution, corporate restructuring and corporate laws, she has been rendering end-to-end services on IBC, mergers and corporate litigation services. She also regularly appears before NCLT. Read more.

Pammy Jaiswal,
Partner, Vinod Kothari & Co.

Pammy is a commerce graduate from the University of Calcutta and an Associate Member of the ICSI.

Her expertise lies in the field of corporate laws, SEBI regulations, FEMA regulations, etc. An eloquent speaker at several professional bodies, Pammy holds a leader position in the corporate law services at Kolkata. Read more.

Vishes Kothari,
Consultant

Vishes, Masters in Mathematics from Cambridge University, UK, is Director of Vinod Kothari Consultants. He brings quantitative and strategic inputs to our financial services consulting business. Vishes is engaged in analytical assignments such as securitisation cashflow modeling, stress testing, risk analysis of loan portfolios, etc. Read more.


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.

Anushka Vohra,
Senior Manager

Anushka Vohra is an Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and a commerce graduate. She is currently working as a Manager at Vinod Kothari & Company at our Delhi office. Her interest lies in the field of Corporate advisory services. Anushka’s podcasts as well as video presentations have been quite popular.

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.

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.

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.

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