Mukesh Butani

Mukesh is the founder and managing partner of BMR Legal Advocates, a law firm specializing in the areas of corporate international tax, transfer pricing and indirect tax, with expertise in litigation services, controversy management, strategic transaction advisory and tax policy. With specialization in domestic corporate international tax and transfer pricing, Mukesh has over three decades of experience in advising multinationals and Indian conglomerates on a wide range of matters relating to FDI policy, business re-organizations, cross-border tax structuring, tax controversy and regulatory policy.

He is an acknowledged expert in the area of international tax policy, controversy and advocacy and has assisted several senior counsels and has to his credit several landmark judicial pronouncements and depositions before expert committees. He has been deposed as an expert witness on contentious cross-border tax treaties, and Transfer Pricing matters in foreign jurisdictions. His most recent authorships include Transfer Pricing–The Indian Landscape, Two Decades On (2021), Taxpayer Rights – Deciphering the Indian Charter (2021) and co-editing credits to the General Anti-Avoidance Rules: The Final Tax Frontier (2021). He has been recognized by national and international fora, and rankings such as the IBLJ A-Star List, the Legal500, Chambers & Partners Icon Rankings, Star for Benchmark Litigation, among others consistently for over a decade.

Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA)

Delhi High Court Bar Association

Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF)

American Bar Association (ABA)

International Bar Association (IBA)

International Fiscal Association (IFA)

Reserve Panel, Singapore International Arbitration Centre

CESTAT Bar Association

Indo-American Chamber of Commerce

Indo-French Chamber of Commerce

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry

Tax Academy of Singapore Correspondent Law Firm Network

International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)