About Ritu Shaktawat

Ritu Shaktawat is a partner in the direct tax practice group at Khaitan & Co. She advises clients in the areas of corporate taxation and international taxation, including bilateral tax treaties and transfer pricing. Ritu focuses on matters involving transaction tax advisory, structuring and documentation of domestic, cross-border and global M&A deals with an India leg; complex interpretational issues pertaining to income characterisation and permanent establishment (Indian taxable presence of foreign entities) aspects; taxation of EPC contracts; taxability of the ever-evolving e-commerce business models; funds taxation; and general anti-avoidance rules and place of effective management issues, which are relatively new issues that are becoming critical across jurisdictions.