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.
Assistant Vice President
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.
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.
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.
Associate
Payal is an associate member of ICSI, and a commerce graduate from Calcutta University. A member of the financial services team, she is actively engaged in providing advisory on financial matters to non-banking financial companies. Her articles have been published in various celebrated journals such as Chartered Secretary, Taxmann, corporate blogs such as LSI, IndiaCorplaw Blog Windpro magazine etc. Some of such articles can be read at vinodkothari.com. She has also assisted in authoring the book “Practitioners’ Guide to CSR’ and authored a White Paper on Green Securitisation.
She is also a regular speaker, and has deliberated on topics of corporate interest, including listing regulations, insider trading, CSR, company deposits, etc. Several of her video lectures are there on our YouTube channel too.
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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.
Manager
Subhojit holds a postgraduate 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.
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
Manager
Palak holds a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) and a Master of Commerce (M.Com) from the University of Kota. As an Associate member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), her interest lies in corporate advisory and securities laws.
She has authored articles on corporate and securities law-related topics which have been published in Taxmann.
Deputy Associate
Neha is a commerce graduate and an Associate Member of the ICSI. She won the Best Participant and the Best Presenter – Female awards in the 10th batch of CLDP organised by ICSI-NIRC. Neha’s areas of interest include corporate laws, insolvency law, and corporate taxation.
She has also been regularly contributing to 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, ACAE Chartered Accountants CPE Study Circle of EIRC of ICAI Journal and corporate blogs like LSI, Taxmann and Insol International
Legal Assistant
Archisman is a law graduate from the Department of Law, University of Calcutta and a member of the Bar Council of West Bengal. He serves as a Legal Assistant in the Financial Services team at Vinod Kothari Consultants Private Limited. In this role, he is actively engaged in advisory and documentation services to non-banking financial companies on regulatory and statutory aspects including RBI regulation, stamping, data protection etc.
In addition to his focus on financial regulation, Archisman is deeply interested in exploring the complexities of privacy laws and their interactions with financial regulations. His dual passion for these fields drives his commitment to understanding and navigating the intricate relationship between privacy and financial regulations.
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