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VINOD KOTHARI CONSULTANTS PRIVATE LIMITED

PROFILE

Introduction

Vinod Kothari Consultants Private Limited is a consulting company focused on providing consulting services in the field of securitisation, derivatives, asset based financing and related areas.

The company is headed by Mr Vinod Kothari. Vinod Kothari is an internationally known expert in fields of securitisation, asset backed financing and credit derivatives. Author of 4 authentic books, Vinod Kothari lectures all over the world in the areas listed above. Vinod Kothari is also a visiting faculty at Indian Institute of Management, Joka, Calcutta, where he teaches structured finance, and at National University of Juridicial Sciences, Calcutta, where he teaches bankruptcy laws. Vinod Kothari, chartered accountant and company secretary, is a former chairman of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.

Also on the Board of Directors of the company is Mr Manoj Banthia. Qualified as a chartered accountant and a company secretary, Manoj Banthia is consulted on matters of corporate law, leasing and asset based funding by most corporates in the Eastern Region. Manoj is also a former Chairman of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.

The company has a team of consultants, interns and trainees. These include young and brilliant professionals from the Institute of Company Secretaries, Institute of Chartered Accountants, interns from the National University of Juridical Sciences and students of the Indian Institute of Management. Needless to emphasize, these young professional provide a constant resource of research, project preparation, documentation, etc.

Relevant consulting experience


The company has been around providing focused consulting services in the field of structured finance, securitisation, derivatives and asset based funding for almost 10 years now. In addition, Vinod Kothari has been a noted name in the fields listed above for almost 20 years now.

While a substantial amount of our is in the form of one-off consulting assignments or retainerships, we have executed several significant assignments, some of which are listed below:

  1. 1. Providing comprehensive consulting on securitisation of consumer finance receivables to Moccis, a company based in Malaysia. We adopted a hand holding approach to their securitisation effort including basic guidance, advising on the financial economics, structuring of their proposed securitisation, etc.
    2. Assisting the South African Revenue Service (income-tax department of South Africa) in preparation of a taxation manual for securitisation and synthetic securitisation transactions. We prepared a detailed guideline on securitisation and assisted them to prepare a taxation scheme to ensure tax neutral and yet robust taxation environment.
    3. Vinod Kothari is on an Asian Development Bank consulting group to advise the Government of India on securitisation and enforcement of security interest laws in India. The group is responsible for suggesting comprehensive amendments to the SARFAESI Act in India to make securitisation and security enforcement laws effectively work in the country.
    4. Year-long retainership with Citibank for their securitisation activities in the country. During this term, we advised the bank on several securitisation transactions where Citibank was the structurer/investment banker.
    5. Advising Cognizant Technologies, an IT Company headquartered in the USA, on structuring and modeling of residential mortgage backed transactions. Cognizant engaged us for a 6-month consulting contract for the modeling project that they envisaged for leading US banks (such as Deutche, Washington Mutual). This project required us to prepare detailed Excel models for real life securitisation transactions, primarily of residential mortgages, from the US market.
    6. Advising Infosys Technologies, a leading IT company, to set up the functional requirements for a securitisation module to be added to their software products. This assignment required us to take the company step by step through securitisation procedures and prepare cashflow models for various types of securitisation transactions.
    7. Advising GE Capital, a leading finance house, on several of their securitisation transactions. We have been engaged to vet and vouch information memoranda for securitisation transactions, check essential financial data, and advise the company on taxation and accounting requirements.

Consulting assignments in the field of leasing and asset-based funding areas


  1. 8. We are known in the country for number one position as consultant in the matter of leasing and asset based funding. We have engaged by every significant name that matters in the field of asset based finance including State Bank of India, Indian Railway Finance Corporation, ICICI, HDFC, Kotak Mahindra, Development Credit Bank, etc.
    9. We are currently acting as a consultant to Infosys Technologies to prepare functional requirements for a comprehensive IT solution for leasing transactions.
    10. We have advised several companies in the USA, France and other places on one-off basis relating to leasing activities.

 

Training services on securitisation and related matters

  1. 11. As an evidence of our expert domain knowledge, we also find it relevant to mention that Vinod Kothari is known as a securitisation trainer all over the World We have lectured in some 20 countries world over on securitisation.

Other Areas of Practice

Vinod Kothari & Company is a firm of company secretaries in Practice. We are engaged in advisory services in several reas of corporate laws and allied matters.

Some of the areas of our practice are:

  • Company law petitions, restructuring, amalgamations, mergers, demergers etc
  • Advisory services on company in India
  • SARFAESI Act, DRT proceedings, and advisory services relating to banking law
  • advisory services on leasing and asset backed funding
  • etc.

 

Staff at Vinod Kothari & Company

Highly motivated and ambitious research assistants and associates work at our firm. The work environment itself requires them to spend substantial time on reading, writing and speaking.

In addition, to encourage reading, articulate thinking and writing, our research associates write several articles/make presentations in internal training sessions.

For some of our staff presentations, click here

 


CONTACT US AT

    Vinod Kothari

    1012 Krishna

    224 AJC Bose Road

    Kolkata (Calcutta) 700 017

    India

    Phone/fax 91-33-22811276/ 22817715/ 22813742

    Email vinod@vinodkothari.com

     

 

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