Senior Advisors Who Stay With the Engagement

CS Bhanu Bhargava has spent over a decade at the intersection of corporate law, governance structure, and cross-border regulatory advisory — work that requires understanding not just what Indian law requires, but what a board needs to be able to operate with confidence in it.

He has advised on legal structuring and market entry for businesses entering India from Germany, the US, the Gulf, and Southeast Asia — including engagements with entities from Berkshire Hathaway, Santander, and Bidbox Group. He has also worked extensively with domestic Indian businesses preparing for institutional capital, navigating the governance and regulatory demands that come with investor scrutiny.

As a Company Secretary and Lawyer, CS Bhanu leads Provenience's Corporate Governance & Board Advisory practice — a team of Chartered Accountants, Company Secretaries, and Lawyers operating from Noida, Gurugram, and Bengaluru. He has been empanelled as a startup mentor at Google for Startups (APAC) and at 91Springboard, and is a regular speaker at ICSI chapters on governance and compliance architecture.

His advisory orientation is consistently the same: the structural decisions made early — at entry, at incorporation, at the first capital raise — determine the governance quality of everything that follows.

CA Vivek Jain's practice is built on a simple premise that most firms do not act on: tax is a board-level risk, not a finance department task. Transfer pricing exposure, PE risk, and cross-border capital structuring have consequences that surface in investor diligence, regulatory scrutiny, and operational continuity — not just in the annual return.

As a Fellow Chartered Accountant heading Provenience's Tax & Global Structuring Advisory practice, CA Vivek works across GST compliance, international taxation, corporate valuations, and cross-border advisory for businesses with India-linked structures. His practice covers businesses navigating India entry, cross-border intercompany arrangements, and domestic firms preparing for PE or institutional capital where tax architecture becomes part of the investment thesis.

He has represented clients in complex assessment proceedings before Indian tax authorities and worked on valuation assignments supporting fundraising, mergers, and acquisitions. His advisory integrates tax planning with the governance architecture that makes a position defensible — not just technically correct.

CS Raksha Saxena's work begins before most advisory relationships do — at the point of entity formation, when the structural and regulatory decisions that define an entity's compliance posture for years ahead are being made.

As an Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and a Law Graduate, CS Raksha heads Provenience's Secretarial and Legal functions. She specialises in business setup and entity formation, corporate secretarial management, FEMA regulations and RBI compliance, and the legal advisory that governs both inbound and outbound cross-border investment structures.

Her practice covers startups and established organisations equally — businesses where the governance gap is not in intent but in structural execution. She drafts and reviews legal agreements, conducts due diligence, and builds the compliance infrastructure that allows a business to meet its regulatory obligations without treating them as emergencies.

Her consistent focus is on building the governance foundation correctly the first time — so it does not have to be rebuilt under pressure.