Ajay Rotti

I am a Co-Founder, Partner and Member of the Executive Committee at Dhruva Advisors in India, a firm which comprises over 300 professionals throughout India and the Middle East, and which was this year given the accolade of India Tax Firm of the Year by ITR for the fourth consecutive year.

My career started with Ernst & Young, where I was a member of the Global Tax Advisory Team (GTAS).

After this assignment, I was part of the founding team at BMR Advisors in Bangalore, a boutique tax consultancy firm offering a range of Tax and M&A advisory services for domestic and global businesses, for six years. I was a Director at BMR when I moved on and subsequently joined KPMG in Bangalore where I became a Partner of Corporate and International Taxation. I have now been with Dhruva Advisors for six years.

I have considerable experience in Corporate Tax, Tax Litigation, International Tax and Transfer Pricing. My focus lies in the IT and information technology enabled services (ITES) sector, digital taxation as well as in real estate, and I have advised a number of large multinational and Indian companies on a range of direct tax and regulatory issues within these sectors. I have also regularly represented large companies before tax authorities and Tax Tribunals on complex corporate tax and transfer pricing issues. I frequently contribute articles to tax journals and leading business newspapers. 

I am a Bachelor of Commerce from Bangalore University (a gold medallist) and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. I also hold an Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting from the CIMA, UK.