Scoop: PwC has been growing its regulatory and advisory practice though the Big Four have generally not been taking on law firms head-on

Hammurabi & Solomon Partners has hired PwC associate director Pravesh Khandelwal as a partner in Gurgaon’s indirect tax and GST practice.

One does wonder whether all the Playboy publicity generated by Hefner’s death late last month would have positively affected valuations…

As first reported by us in August, two PwC indirect tax experts have now joined in partner-equivalent positions as executive and associate directors in Mumbai.

Khaitan & Co has hired PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) director Abhishek Rastogi and associate director Rashmi Deshpande into its indirect tax practice in Mumbai.

Ernst & Young (EY India) executive director Amit Bhagat joined PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as a partner in the indirect tax practice with his team of 12 professionals.

PricewaterhouseCoopers’ legal services head Leon Flavell said that the consultancy firm would become a $1bn global legal services player, aiming to grow from the $500m it generated from legal services in 2013. In the UK the firm has won a licence to operate as an Alternative Business Structure (ABS)...

SC probes PwC accounts, FDI, FEMA fudging A Chief-headed bench will examine an NGO’s allegations of financial and accounting irregularities at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and its locally allied auditing firms. PwC and others “are apparently indulging in activities in violation of various statutes a...

Khaitan & Co has acted opposite PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) in the sale of Blue Star’s 24 per cent-owned ventilation subsidiary to Swedish company Systemair AB.

Khaitan & Co has made up a former PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) chartered accountant-cum-lawyer to partner.

Sanjay Sanghvi (pictured) only qualified as a lawyer after joining Khaitan in January 2008 from PwC. He is the third new member to the law firm’s partnership in as many months.

He said that working in a law firm was very satisfying: “In accountancy firms you typically do compliance work and you don’t go deeper into the law and interpretation.