Name:
Srinivas Kotni
Who’s
he: Advocate & Company Secretary
His
Leadership Mantra: Leadership by example
and relationship oriented approach
How
he executes: By following the goals passionately, by always striving for
quality and timely delivery and by ensuring empathy and human values which are
the underlying drivers.
Biggest challenge faced: Introduction of GST!! Being trade lawyers for the last 17 years the
focus has always been on trade and indirect taxation laws. When GST was
introduced, the entire indirect tax litigation almost came to a stand still, as
the government and the department was not issuing show cause notices, there
have been no raids, audits and measures for recovery. . It meant our core
practice area has faced a sudden roadblock. In the face of acute circumstantial
adversity, instead of getting overawed by the situation, we carefully
re-calibrated our approach and developed our other areas of practice like
insolvency and bankruptcy, corporate commercial practice, intellectual property
rights, general commercial litigation, alternative dispute resolution and also
consulting practice in the regulatory and compliance areas. This helped us to
pass through the unforeseen situation unscathed, though both our top and bottom
lines were hit due to the above developments. Personally I also worked on an
innovative comic book project with the title “Adventures of the GST Man” which
has been well received so far. Thus the gap was filled by the said academic
pursuit. Now we expect an exodus of GST matters once the implementation phase
of GST comes to an end. Hopefully our performance would increase manifold with
the new practice areas also having been built.
The story so far: Kotni , a New Delhi based Lawyer, Indian is also a Humanist, a Culturist, an Author,
Political Enthusiast, Issue Based Ideologist,
History Lover, Occasional Cyclist and a Seeker of Spirituality, Love,
Happiness and Peace.
Founder
& Managing Partner and the moving force behind LEXport (with offices in New
Delhi, Bengaluru and Associates across the Country), he has been handling a
variety of legal, corporate and taxation issues for more than twenty-four
years. Prior to setting up LEXport in 2000, he was a Consultant/Attorney with a
leading firm of Attorneys specializing in the areas of Corporate &
Commercial Laws, Indirect Taxation and Intellectual Property Rights.
With
his legal acumen, expertise, practical sense and personalized approach, he has
not only made a mark in the legal world, but has earned the trust and
confidence of the firm’s domestic and international clients with whom long
standing relationships have been evolved over the years. Clients of LEXport
like his business and solution oriented approach to their legal issues and
problems.
Interestingly, Kotni started his career as a
software professional but found his calling in law. So there you go…Follow your
passion and the success will follow you.
And
not just that, there are many publications to his credit. Too. He has authored articles, concept papers,
course material, presentations and books on various legal subjects. Recently
his book titled “Adventures of the GST Man - India’s first comic book on GST”
has been published (Foreword by Mr. Arun Jaitley, the Hon’ble Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs)
and is being very well received by all the cross sections. The book has
generated a very good response from the media, business circles, professionals,
students etc.
Kotni is also an avid traveller and a cyclist and cycles cross-country.
More
about him: Kotni has a
Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the University of Delhi and a Bachelor’s degree
in Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. He is also a Company
Secretary from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and holds Post
Graduate Diplomas in Industrial Relations & Personnel Management,
Information Technology & Management (equivalent to Masters in Computer
Applications) and an Advanced Diploma in Systems Management.
He
also also holds Professional
Affiliations to the Bar Council of Delhi, the Institute of Company Secretaries
of India, Supreme Court Bar Association, CESTAT Bar Association and the All
India Management Association.
He
has extensive experience in the areas of Trade Laws, Customs, GST, Foreign
Trade Policy, Foreign Exchange Laws, Corporate & Commercial Laws,
Transaction Services, Intellectual Property Rights, International Commercial
Arbitration, Foreign Direct Investment, Mergers & Amalgamations, Private
Equity and Venture Capital transactions, Banking & Finance, Power &
Energy, Contractual Matters, Labour & Employment, Tele-communications &
Information Technology, Real Estate & Infrastructure, Regulatory &
Policy matters, Public Sector, Government, Non-Governmental & International
Organizations, etc. He has been instrumental in providing legal services
including Due Diligence, Legal Opinions, Corporate Advisory, Legal Audits,
Compliance Advice and Corporate Dispute Resolution & Litigation services.
He has been a legal advisor to a wide spectrum
of corporate entities for their legal conundrums and transactions. Srinivas
regularly appears before the various Courts and Quasi Judicial forums. He has
been speaking for a very long time in professional conferences and seminars on
emerging legal issues and is often quoted by the media on corporate legal
matters.
He
has been a visiting faculty to the Institute of Company Secretaries of India,
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.
He is also on the board of certain domestic and reputed multinational companies
as an Independent Director.
Srinivas can be reached on: http://lexport.in
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