A small practice, by design.
Shekhar & Associates is led by a single principal — a Chartered Accountant, a US Certified Public Accountant, and a Corporate Lawyer — with twenty-plus years advising founders, boards, and family offices.
Principal · Practising 2003 —
- Founded
- By appointment, 2003
- Disciplines
- CA · US CPA · Law
- Engagements
- Limited each quarter
- Reach
- India · India–US corridor
One person, fully accountable for the file.
The practice is structured around a single principal so that the person who scopes the engagement is also the person who signs the deliverable. There is no associate handoff, no review-only partner, and no committee.
Most engagements involve coordination with specialist counsel — litigation, regulatory, foreign tax, jurisdiction-specific compliance — and the principal remains responsible for the matter end-to-end.
We accept a limited number of mandates each quarter. The acceptance criteria are straightforward: the matter must require senior attention, we must be the right firm for it, and there must be no conflict.
Chartered Accountant (India)
Practising member, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).
Membership No. — on request
Certified Public Accountant (US)
Licensed CPA, American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and the relevant US state board.
License No. — on request
Advocate
Enrolled with the Bar Council; practice limited to transactional and advisory corporate-law work.
Enrollment No. — on request
Education
Harvard. Twenty-plus years advising founders, boards, and family offices in India and across the India–US corridor.
Anonymised by the firm’s discretion policy. Detail available on request, under engagement.
- 01
Tax · Cross-border
Restructured a founder-led India–US group ahead of a Series C, reconciling FEMA, transfer pricing, and US §367 positions in a single written opinion.
- 02
Corporate Law · M&A
Acted as transaction counsel for a strategic sale of a family-owned manufacturing business; coordinated specialist counsel on litigation carve-outs.
- 03
Audit · Governance
Statutory and tax audit for a multi-entity family group across operating and investment companies; instituted a working-paper standard adopted across the file.
- 01
Senior attention or none.
Every engagement is led by the principal. Where the right answer is junior delegation, we will say so and decline the work.
- 02
Three disciplines, one accountable person.
Chartered accountancy, US CPA, and corporate law sit under one practice. The principal who signs your audit reads your shareholder agreement.
- 03
Written advice, defensible positions.
Advice that matters is given in writing, with the standards or statutes it relies on cited in the file. Verbal sketches are sketches; engagements are written.
- 04
Discretion is the default.
We do not publish client names, matters, or transaction values. The firm does not appear on lists or in directories that would require us to.