Managing partner Mukesh Butani leads BMR Legal‘s tax team, offering clients a boutique ability in international tax, transfer pricing, GST matters and tax litigation. Butani, a veteran practitioner with nearly four decades of experience, specialises in tax litigation in high-stakes disputes before tribunals, the High Courts, the Supreme Court and arbitration courts and tribunals. Seema Kejriwal Jariwala, a Chartered Accountant, deepens the team’s transfer pricing and tax litigation abilities.
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Testimonials
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- 'Seema Kejriwal and Shruti Agarwal are very professional with timely and high quality advice.’
- ‘This is a very reactive and proactive team and process with a high quality, giving the client the state of the jurisprudence currently in force and great advice.'
- ‘Mukesh Butani is a great leader.'
Key clients
- Societe De Participations financiers Et Industrielles SPAFI/Schneider Electic Canon India Private Limited Skoda-Volkswagen Auto India Private Limited CLSA India (P.) Ltd. Aptiv Components India Pvt. Ltd. Eaton Technology Pvt. Ltd. Go Daddy India Domains and Hosting Services Pvt. Ltd. GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Pvt. Ltd 3M India Limited International Tractors Limited Shapoorji Pallonji & Company Private Limited Goodpack IBC Singapore Ltd. Apple Inc.
Work highlights
Representing Skoda-Volkswagen before the Supreme Court in complex and high-stakes Central Excise litigation.
Representing Aptiv Global Operations Limited before the Delhi High Court in a key dispute on taxability of fees under the Income Tax Act 1961 and applicable tax treaty.
Representing Shapoorji Pallonji Energy Private Limite before the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal in a multi-issue tax dispute.
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Practice head
Mukesh Butani
Other key lawyers
Shruti Agarwal; Seema Kejriwal Jariwala