Amit Singhania
Asia-Pacific Guide 2024
Band 4 : Tax
Band 4
About
Provided by Amit Singhania
Practice Areas
Amit Singhania is a Partner in the Firm's Tax Practice Group. He specialises in Direct Taxes with a focus on tax structuring, advisory and litigation services, primarily in the areas of domestic and international taxes.
Career
Amit works very closely on matters pertaining to cross border investments and financial services sector. He has recently represented on tax aspect of Ctrip’s acquisition of Makemytrip, Walmart’ acquisition of Flipkart, Apollo Group’s global acquisition of an Indian firm. He has also represented clients like Tigermedia, Arcelor Mittal, Facebook, Paypal, IDFC, Dassault Aviation, Farallon, etc. Amit also specialises in strategizing tax litigation, policy advocacy and representation before tax authorities.
Professional Memberships
Bar Council of India, Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Amit is a member of the Direct Tax Committee of CII and ASSOCHAM. He plays an active role in advising business chambers on various tax policy related issues
Personal
Amit has been recognised as a Global Leader in Tax by Who’s Who Legal 2021. Chambers Global and Chambers Asia Pacific, 2022 ranked him for Tax. He has been recognised as up and coming for Tax by Chambers and Partners, 2020-21.
Awards
Global Leader - Tax
Who's Who Legal
2021
Articles, highlights and press releases
2 items provided by Areete Law Offices
EQUALISATION LEVY 2.0 – A case for deferral?
In this article, we discuss India’s recent two per cent equalization levy (“EL”) on foreign e-commerce operators catering to the Indian market, which has come into effect from 1 April 2020. This new levy was a silent entrant in India’s Finance Act, 2020 and did not form a part of the policy debate t
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co: Tax Work Highlights Jan 2020- April 2020
SAM & Co’s tax team have work on the some of the biggest tax structuring/advisory and transactional tax matters in India in the last 4 months, including Facebook’s investment in Reliance Jio which is the single largest investment by Facebook in India till date.
EQUALISATION LEVY 2.0 – A case for deferral?
In this article, we discuss India’s recent two per cent equalization levy (“EL”) on foreign e-commerce operators catering to the Indian market, which has come into effect from 1 April 2020. This new levy was a silent entrant in India’s Finance Act, 2020 and did not form a part of the policy debate t
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co: Tax Work Highlights Jan 2020- April 2020
SAM & Co’s tax team have work on the some of the biggest tax structuring/advisory and transactional tax matters in India in the last 4 months, including Facebook’s investment in Reliance Jio which is the single largest investment by Facebook in India till date.