Bobby Parikh is the Firm’s Managing Partner and leads its Financial Services Industry practice. He joined the Firm in September 2004 on its formation. Prior to BMR, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Ernst & Young in India and held that responsibility until December 2003. He worked with Arthur Andersen for over seventeen years and was its Country Managing Partner, until the Andersen practice combined with that of Ernst & Young in June 2002.

Over the years, he has had extensive experience in advising clients across a range of industries. An area of focus for him has been to work with businesses, both Indian and multinational, in interpreting the implications of the deregulation in as well as the changes to India's policy framework, to help businesses better leverage opportunities that have become available and to address challenges that resulted from such changes. He has led teams that have advised clients in the areas of entry strategy (MNCs into India and Indian companies into overseas markets), business model identification, structuring a business presence, mergers, acquisitions and other business reorganisations. He works closely with regulators and policy formulators, providing inputs to aid in the development of new regulations and policies, assessing the implications and efficacy of these and providing feedback for action. He led the Financial Services Industry practice at Andersen and also at Ernst & Young, and has advised a number of banking groups, investment banks, brokerage houses, fund managers and other financial services intermediaries in establishing operations in India, mergers and acquisitions, and in developing structured financial products, besides providing tax and business advisory and tax reporting services.

He has a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from the Mumbai University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1987. He joined Arthur Andersen in 1984, made tax partner in 1995 and Country Managing Partner in 1998. He has been a member of a number of trade and business associations and their management or other committees, as well as on the advisory or executive boards of non-Governmental and not-for-profit organisations. He has been recognized as a leading tax advisor consecutively in World Tax 2006, 2007 and 2008.

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Email: bobby.parikh@bmradvisors.com