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Finance Professional with proven expertise in managing diverse business entities, including Company, Partnership, and Proprietorship setups, ensuring regulatory compliance and operational efficiency. Proficient in handling Litigation & Tax Assessments, providing strategic advice and representation to achieve favorable outcomes for clients.
Extensive experience in facilitating successful Mergers & Acquisitions, leveraging market insights and financial analysis to drive business growth and expansion. Specialized in Domestic & International Tax Advisory, offering valuable guidance on tax planning, compliance, and optimization strategies for global businesses.
Adept at providing GST Advisory & Compliance services, ensuring seamless adherence to complex tax regulations. Skilled in advising on International Business Structures and International Tax & Regulatory matters, enabling clients to establish overseas operations with tax efficiency in mind.
Demonstrated success in making strategic investments, with a portfolio encompassing over 100 companies, including two valued at over $1 billion each.
Chartered Accountant with over 22 years of experience in the domain of Accounting, Finance and Taxation across various Industries and as a part-time faculty and corporate Trainer
Rishi is the Founder and CEO of a tax consulting firm in the UAE, Young Global (www.youngglobal.co). He is a Chartered Accountant by profession and has over 15 years of international transfer pricing and tax consulting experience in the UAE (Dubai)/Middle East, UK, The Netherlands and India working with Big Four and Tier 2 consulting firms in these countries.
In this tax experience, he has dealt with a wide range of transfer pricing and international tax aspects, including review of supply chain and business models, conducting value chain analyses, intellectual property, design of transfer pricing policies and preparation of robust transfer pricing documentation. Rishi has also provided support with the practical implementation of transfer pricing policies and defending those policies in a tax/TP audit.
Rishi has performed several UAE CT and TP impact assessments, review of QFZP reliefs and UAE CT/TP implementation and documentation projects. In addition, he has assisted on various UAE VAT projects. He is an active speaker on various transfer pricing aspects at reputed UAE forums and in the year 2023 Rishi was awarded a nominee of the Transfer Pricing Rising Star in the Middle East Category by International Tax Review (ITR Awards 2023).
I am a resident of Dubai and have been doing business in United Arab Emirates (UAE) for more than 30.
I am a Chartered Accountant (CA) and a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. I am also having a UAE audit license as approved by the Ministry of Economy, Audit and Accounts Section, Dubai, UAE. I have over 38 years of experience in all facets of finance including accounting, auditing, business consultancy, company formation, legal compliance, taxation, etc.
I am also a registered Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Ireland and Australia.
Further, I am one of the approved compliance officers entrusted with the verification of the day to day transactions of share brokers registered in Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange.
My greatest career achievement so far is being the Managing Partner of Paul & Hassan Chartered Accountants L.L.C, an audit, accounting and consultancy firm which has been in Dubai since 2004 and is currently serving more than 750 clients through its main office in Dubai and branchesin Sharjah, and Abu Dhabi; and representative offices in Ras Al Khaimah and Al Ain.
Prior to the establishment of Paul & Hassan, I was associated with one of the leading group of companies owned by the ruling family of Dubai and worked as the Assistant to the Vice President of the said group. Among my responsibilities are internal auditing, preparations of management reports, budget analysis, etc.
Manish Saraf is a Tax Advisor Service Partner in S&B Consulting (snbconsulting.ae) UAE. He is a Chartered Accountant and has over 21 years of experience in Audit & Tax. His experience spreads over UAE Value Added Tax (VAT), UAE Corporate Tax , Governance, Process automation, documentation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s). He has worked in the Big4 consulting (Deloitte, PwC) and private sectors in UAE, Oman, West Africa, India, USA & UK.
His experience has been serving clients in different sectors of Manufacturing, Retail & Consumer, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Engineering Services, Hospitality, Logistics, Third Party Banking Services, Facility Management, and Media Marketing.
He has experience in Corporate Tax Assessment, analyzing financial structure, transactions, and the applicability of UAE CT regulations on Free Zone Qualifying Activity and Mainland business. He has also performed VAT health check assessments for different clients in UAE.
Manish has presented on several webinars, seminars on the UAE Corporate Tax and provided updates on guidelines issued by FTA.
Jayessh Guptaa is a Partner with The Alchamii, Dubai. Jayessh Guptaa has more than 16 years of post qualification experience in the field of auditing, business advisory, taxation, and company formation. He is a Fellow member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)(FCA), Associate member of International Financial Accountant, (IFA) United Kingdom (AFA-UK) and Member -Institute of Public Accountant, Australia (MIPA).
Jayessh has extensive expertise in working with international clients with multiple locations as well as serving listed and non-listed global clients. He has been involved in several IFRS audits, internal audits, and various other assurance service assignments. He is also responsible for implementing technical, ethical, and professional standards across the firm. He brings extensive knowledge of various industry sectors like Real estate, Trading, Manufacturing, Contracting Hospitality, Retail, Schools, Service sector etc.
