Gokul Chaudhri and Rajeev Dimri to lead tax service lines at BMR Advisors

BMR Advisors today announced the new leadership structure for their organization
with Mukesh Butani elevated to the role of Chairman of the Firm.

As a part of the planned transition, Bobby Parikh will serve as Chief Mentor to the Firm, and in
that capacity will provide inputs and guide Firm strategy, support the Firm’s Partner development
process and maintain a dialogue with significant clients of the Firm to ensure continuing
satisfaction with the Firm’s services.

“Our client centric effort coupled with focus in understanding and addressing clients’ complex
problems is what gives us an edge. We are in the midst of a most interesting time of change that
will impact our clients – whether it is tax reforms, capital markets reforms or change in the
economic & regulatory environment,” says Mukesh Butani, Chairman.

The firm also announced the appointment of Gokul Chaudhri as national leader for the Direct Tax
practice. Rajeev Dimri will be the new Indirect Tax service line leader.

An extended leadership team- comprising of Abhishek Goenka who will lead the role of Partner – Markets, Frank DSouza, Partner – Business Planning and Risk Management, Vivek Gupta as Partner in charge of people matters and Sujit Ghosh, Partner responsible for leading the strategic initiative in the Tax Litigation and Legal Documentation space will perform identified strategic functions core to the firm’s growth strategy and in turn help the Chairman-led Operating Committee comprising of the service line leaders.

“In an increasingly complex and fast changing environment, clients require advisors who
understand their business and commercial imperatives, who can help interpret the environment
and more significantly, anticipate potential future developments to improve the quality of
decisions that clients must make. At BMR, we place significant emphasis on continuously
developing the capabilities of our partners and our employees to effectively meet and exceed
client expectations. The new leadership team will strive to raise the bar ever higher, “says Bobby
Parikh, Chief Mentor.

BMR Advisors (www.bmradvisors.com) is a professional services organisation offering a range
of Tax, Risk and M&A advisory for businesses of all sizes, at the local, national and international
levels. We seek to add value to clients by focusing on solutions that are innovative, yet practical.
Our philosophy is to serve clients with customised and sound technical advice, delivered in the
context of their business or commercial situation.

BMR’s tax practice is well reputed for its quality tax advisory, policy and dispute resolution
competencies and is ranked a Tier 1 firm. Internationally, BMR is co-founder of Taxand- the
world’s largest independent tax organization. The firm’s M&A practice is ranked as one of the
most active transaction advisor by Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Mergermarket and Venture
Intelligence.