Rajiv Singh | Director
B.Sc., FCA, CISA (USA), Registered Valuer SFA
Rajiv is a recognized expert on business valuation, banking, corporate finance and strategy, M&A and restructuring, forex risk management, and internal controls.
With an experience of over twenty-five years, he has been serving as an expert witness or consultant in an array of valuations related to litigation including economic damages.
The fellow member of the ICAI has also been inducted as a member of the Special Invitees of the Valuation Standards Boards of ICAI and also as a member of the Task Force on Banking & Finance Sector constituted by the ICSI.
He is a Certified Information system auditor (USA), a valuer qualified from the ICAI and a registered valuer with IBBI, and a founding member of the Registered Valuer Organisation (RVO) He qualified independent director’s exam conducted by the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) in 2020.
- He contributed significantly to developing the first Business Valuation Standards in India issued by the ICAI in 2010 and designing and delivering the first valuation course of the ICAI and the ICSI.
- As a member of the Accounting Standards Board of the ICAI, he has conferred on the development of Ind AS-113 (Fair Value Measurement). He has also contributed greatly to designing and delivering the first Forex and Treasury Management course and Master of Business Finance course of the ICAI.
- Over the past twenty-five years, he has served more than 300 valuation clients in India, USA, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Mauritius, Nepal, Dubai, Qatar, and Africa and is frequently retained in complex valuation disputes.
- He has been retained and testified as an expert witness in India and abroad including at the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and ITAT in leading valuation cases relating to economic damages, transfer pricing, and transactional disputes.
- He consulted on a corporate restructuring plan that was a key facilitator in a complete turnaround of a leading PSU in the construction industry which currently has “Navratana” status. He has also provided consulting services to FOREX dealing room/treasury of leading banks and corporates
- He has served on the Board of Union Bank of India from 2018 to 2021 and was the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board, wherein he dealt with the areas of internal controls, fraud and risk management, valuation, treasury management, and customer services practices of the bank.
- He is also on the Board of Machino Plastics Ltd – a listed auto component company.
He has presented, instructed, and written on topics related to valuation, banking, and corporate finance. He has been a speaker in more than 800 seminars and training programs on valuation, banking, and finance-related topics at different professional and industry platforms including IIM
- Bangalore, SBI, Union Bank of India, ICAI, ICSI, IICA, ICAN, VGSOM (IIT KGP), IIT Roorkee, IIT Delhi, ASSOCHAM, Ph.D. Chambers and other similar forums.
- He has trained more than 8000 Chartered Accountants/Company Secretaries/MBAs in India and Nepal. He cherished his role as the first Joint Technical Director and Visiting Professor of Valuation and Masters in Business Finance courses of the ICAI. He is an adjunct faculty and course director of the valuation course of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA).