Vishal leads the Transaction Tax practice at the Firm. He has over 20 years of experience assisting companies in transactions, restructurings and reorganisations with deep expertise in advising clients across sectors with a focus on financial services where he has a deep understanding of the principal governing regulations. He also advises clients across exchange control and FDI considerations.

Vishal has worked extensively with financial institutions, funds, large multinationals and Indian promoter groups to facilitate and negotiate tax and regulatory matters in transactions that are cross border or within the country. He has also been advising clients in group reorganisations, structuring investment holding strategies both outbound and inbound, identifying profit extraction strategies and entry strategy formulation, financial product reviews from a tax and regulatory perspective, transaction structuring and due diligences.

Some of his key transactions include advising: an infrastructure platform on acquisition of a large portfolio of assets; a large NBFC on the sale of its business in India to a strategic investor in a multi-billion-dollar transaction; a large global private equity fund on multiple investments in India in the tech space; an Indian promoter group in reorganisation of Indian and overseas entities including consolidation under a holding company structure and he led the tax due diligence for the merger of HDFC and HDFC Bank.