54 Acquisition International - August 2017 T.P. Ostwal & Associates LLP Chartered Accountants is a premier professional services firm, who recently were given the prestigious Leading Tax Adviser of the Year - India accolade, as part of the Leading Adviser 2017 Awards. To celebrate their selection, we interviewed the firm’s partner, Siddharth Banwat to learn more about the high-quality services offered. .P. Ostwal & Associates LLP Chartered Accountants is focused on providing high-quality services to its clients in the tax, consulting and regulatory domains. In this vein, the firm intends to add value, by blending practical business advice with consulting, tax and regulatory inputs. The firm’s partner, Siddharth Banwat conveys to us the wide range of services offered, the seasoned members of staff on hand and the focus on ensuring that the client is always satisfied. “The firm is engaged in providing wide spectrum of services in the areas of inbound and outbound investment consultancy, corporate laws consultancy, audit and investigations, management consultancy, exchange control regulations related consultancy, consultancy and compliance services on mergers & acquisitions, foreign collaborations, domestic taxation, international taxation - strategic planning & compliance and service tax matters. “We have developed expertise in these areas over the years with hand on experience. The firm has requisite qualified staff and resources - to provide highly reliable services to clients. Our existing client profile, includes domestic clients and foreign clients, both corporate as well as non- corporate. The guiding philosophy of the firm is to render specialised and tailor made services, to help achieve the client’s objective with maximum efficiency and minimum cost. “The firm expects to realise this vision, by always placing the client’s needs at the front and centre, hiring the best professionals, investing continuously in their personal and professional development and adhering rigorously to a set of values that are at the core of everything we do.” Company: T.P. Ostwal & Associates LLP Chartered Accountants Name: Siddharth Banwat Email:
[email protected] Web: www.tpostwal.in Address: Lodha Supremus, 13th floor, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai 400 013, India Phone: +91 (22) 4945 4000 Innovative Tax and Regulatory Solutions T 1706AI42 The firm’s mission statement is simply: “Client satisfaction through our efficient and high quality services”, Siddharth tells us. He goes on to develop this core aspect of the firm’s work. “We believe that what clients truly value is sound technical advice - delivered in the context of their business or commercial situation - advice that is not only technically sound, but which is also practical, effective and implementable. This requires going beyond the specific tax or regulatory issue to understanding the underlying business transaction and imperatives - then applying an understanding of the tax and regulatory framework - to fashion a solution that works. “T.P. Ostwal & Associates LLP Chartered Accountants equally believes, that we will gain and retain the client’s confidence, only when can provide such advice consistently, from engagement to engagement, from one year to the next. We are passionately committed to doing so.” Siddharth then turns the conversation towards the firm’s core values of integrity, passion for excellence, stewardship and personal growth. “T.P. Ostwal & Associates LLP Chartered Accountants is committed to maintaining integrity in our efforts, commitments to clients, people and conduct. We are committed to working with the best clients, hiring the best people, providing the best environment, encouraging innovation and creativity and delivering consistent, high quality value-added services. “The firm is committed to an organisational philosophy. By this, I mean that the role of all partners and people, is to build the T.P. Ostwal & Associates LLP Chartered Accountants while we are a part of it and leave behind a firm, that is stronger and better than when we first associated with it. “We are committed to an environment that continually fosters both the personal and professional growth, of all our people. We achieve this by providing a best-in-class work environment, through ongoing investment in technical and professional development, providing challenging professional opportunities to our people as well as consistently living the firm’s values.” The firm’s mission statement is simply: “Client satisfaction through our efficient and high quality services” , Siddharth tells us. He goes on to develop this core aspect of the firm’s work.