Brij Mohan Barwal

Founder & Managing Partner

Brij is a Commerce Graduate from Delhi University and is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). He has more than 15 years of practical experience in taxation and is currently heading the Government Regulatory Practice at Delhi office.

He also holds diploma in Information system audit (DISA from ICAI).

Mr. Brij heads the FDI and FEMA departments. He advises foreign entities on setting up offices in India and to Indian entities for setting up operations abroad. Around four years back he pioneered the ‘Start up domain’ and has helped close to 50 start-ups, right from funding, setting up their company in India, and their day to day. With his knowledge he partners with organizations in their deal negotiations and help them in building tax efficient deal / investment strategy.

Mr. Brij is also associated with several autonomous and regulatory bodies where he is a ’Thought Partner’ to many organizations’ on issues related to corporate risk management and taxation. He is also an active member of business bodies where he regularly provides talks on issues relating to Government procedures and helps industry develop a perspective and gain clarity on regulatory issues and government functioning.

Sonia Barwal

Founder & Managing Partner

Sonia is a Commerce Graduate from Delhi University and is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a holder of Certificate on International Taxation (From ICAI).

After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 2004, Sonia decided to gain international experience in auditing and assurance services by serving top notch CA firms. So she started her career with reputed national CA firms. After serving the firms for 5 long years, she moved in to her own practice for the past 9 years.

Ms. Sonia has more than 15 years of experience in the International Taxation and Transfer Pricing. Along with these two departments she also manages Statutory Audits, Bank Audits – Concurrent, Stock, Income Leakage, Central Statutory/Branch Audits and Corporate Advisory Services. She is also engaged in the practice of auditing and Corporate Taxation (India).

She has indepth knowledge of Working Capital Management and the lending norms of Banks/Financial Institutions and have experiences in Corporate Planning, Structuring and Re-structuring of Units.

Ms. Sonia is a member of various associations where she provides inputs on international taxation issues.

CA Anil Kumar

Associate Partner

Anil Kumar is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and is Commerce Graduate from Delhi University.

He has vast experience in the areas of Audit & Assurance services, Due Diligence, Taxation (Direct and Indirect) & Management Consultancy.

He is an expert in designing & implementing systems, policies & processes for efficient and smoothly running of business. He is also providing the personalised part time CFO services to varies mid & small size clients. He is helping the companies to take more complex financial decisions & helping them to navigate the path to achieve their strategic growth objectives.

Bhawana Jayaswal

Associate Partner

Ms. Bhawana is a commerce graduate from Delhi University and an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).

She has extensive experience in legal advisory, investment facilitation, and corporate secretarial services, she specializes in guiding companies through the complexities of funding rounds, whether through equity or debt. Her expertise encompasses drafting, negotiating, and executing comprehensive transaction documents such as term sheets, subscription agreements, and shareholders’ agreements and managing foreign investments, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

She is in-charge of the firm’s practise relating to all statutory audit, tax audit, concurrent audit, and bank audit work in the firm. She is well aware of the current Indirect taxation regime-GST so as to ensure flawless compliance for our respective and potential clients. She has also been actively involved in the preparation of Financial Statements, Annual Reports, Consolidated Financial Statements, Cash Flow Statements, Capital Adequacy Ratio, Disclosures & Notes to Accounts, and Memorandum to Audit Committee/Board and related Annexure for various clients.

Before joining Barwal Consultancy, she was associated with big multinational corporates as a manager and handled a team of 8 to 10 members. She was responsible for implementing internal controls on offshore businesses and ensuring the monthly closing of books of accounts in accordance with US and local GAAP. Aside from monthly closing, she collaborated with the IT team to implement BOT on production to reduce activity time and maximise resource utilization.

Mayank Kashyap

Manager – Legal & Compliance

Mayank is a Commerce Post Graduate & holds an Associate Membership of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). He has 5 years of significant experience in all secretarial & legal matters including Private Equity Financing, Debt Financing, Foreign Direct Investment, Stock Option Plan etc.

Mr. Kashyap is currently leading the Legal and Compliance team & has been working on various assignments like Private Equity Financing, Legal Due Diligence, Secretarial Audit etc.

Prior to joining Barwal Consultancy, he has derived experience in the practice areas relating to FEMA Laws, drafting & vetting of numerous agreements including Business Development Agreement, Master Service Agreement, Client Hosting Agreement, Shareholders’ Agreement, Share Subscription Agreement etc. by working with a reputed German MNC.

He possesses enormous skills and expertise in legal drafting of Notices, various agreements and other legal documents, review and negotiation of corporate, commercial and project agreements, FEMA compliances, IPR & Corporate Advisory. He is also associated with many Startup companies in order to provide advice on capital structuring, stock options, seed and angel round of investments, shareholder agreements etc.

Ms. Rashi Gupta

Legal Associate

Ms. Rashi Gupta completed her LL.B. from Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi and is registered with the Bar Council of Delhi. She is a young and dynamic professional at Barwal Legal. Her practice covers all aspects of corporate, secretarial, GST and income tax laws. She has in-depth knowledge about ROC filings, Startup registrations and Trademarks and holds experience in drafting and vetting different types of agreements and petitions. Apart from this, she regularly advises and represents clients on matters of commercial and taxation laws before various government authorities in India and serves the best attainable results with her excellent liaising and advocacy skills.