India

Dezan Shira & Associates has been operational in India since 2006 and maintains five offices in the country.

The services we provide are to foreign investors wishing to establish a presence in the country, in addition to restructuring or providing other legal, administration, operational and tax accounting and due diligence advice to already established multinationals in the country. We are a business advisory practice in India and in common with the larger firms also provide a legal services division for legal administration, business licensing and tax planning & compliance work.

Our India client base is multinational, and includes many well known businesses as well as a large Indian client base as international investors in China and Vietnam. Staff in our India offices are a mixture of Indian and Foreign lawyers, accountants and auditors; all are fluent in English as well as Hindi and Bengali. Additionally, several European languages are spoken in-house. In total we are retained by about 100 clients in India from over 20 countries and employ full time legal, accounting, tax and audit professionals in the country to assist with our clients due diligence, corporate establishment, and tax / accounting needs..

The firm also produces the India Briefing magazine as a regular intelligence and business tool for clients and foreign investors, available from the link above. A complimentary subscription is available from the homepage.

Our Managing Partner in India is Chris Devonshire-Ellis, based in Mumbai. He is supported by our national team including Vikas Srinastava, our corporate legal counsel for foreign direct investments into India.