Biography: Corporate Tax

Shefali is a partner with the firm's corporate tax practice in Mumbai. With a specialisation in cross border taxation, she has over 20 years of experience in international tax.

Shefali is extensively involved in advising multinational corporations on a range of issues in designing global holding and operating structures, structuring inbound and outbound investments, cross border mergers, acquisitions and other corporate reorganisations. She is also involved in developing and implementing domestic and international fund structures for leading investment and private equity fund houses. In addition, her work covers advice to several pharmaceutical companies, and software and e-commerce companies in the IT industry. Within the financial services industry, she advises banks in designing structured finance products and works with several fund houses and asset management companies.

Shefali has most recently been conferred as one of Asia's pre-eminent lawyers for taxation in the Asia Law Leading Lawyers survey 2011 and has featured in the The International Who's Who of Corporate Tax Lawyers and The International Who's Who of Private Funds Lawyers for the third consecutive year in 2011. She is a regular writer and lecturer on international tax topics and has contributed to the India chapter on 'Is there a Permanent Establishment?' for the 63rd IFA Congress in Vancouver, 2009. She is also a member of the core group on International Tax of the Bombay Chartered Accountants' Society.

Shefali is a graduate in Commerce from the University of Mumbai and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1991.

Other Practice Areas

Shefali Goradia also features in the following practice areas:

• Private funds