Japan Business Desk

Email : mukesh.agarwal@pwc.com

Mobile : +91 98 1147 5360

Mukesh is an Partner in the Deals group of PwC and has over 17 years of consultancy experience, with more than 13 years experience in business and financial advisory, due diligence reviews and vendor assistance. He joined PwC in 2004.

He has been involved in a large number of domestic and cross border transactions (both outbound and inbound ) on behalf of strategic and financial investors pertaining to diverse industry sectors including industrial and consumer products.

Mukesh was seconded with PwC Japan for a period of 32 months and is also a core member of  “Japan Business Group” in India where he works extensively in not only providing deals/TS support to Japanese clients but also in supporting X los line of service from tax, assurance and advisory in dealing with Japanese clients.

He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons.) degree from Delhi University.

Matsubara, a Manager of Japan Business Desk, has been seconded from PwC Japan and based in Gurgaon since July 2019. He has over 17 years of experiences in operation consulting and technology consulting.

He has been advising on issues related to supply chain strategy, operation improvement and ERP system implementation for multiple industries clients such as Automotive, Electric parts, Battery, Electronics, Appliance, Construction machine, Bicycle parts, Reagents, Consumer products, Food and Advertisement Agency.

He is also experienced in global projects, has worked in South East Asia, Europe and United States for Japanese subsidiaries. He supports Japanese companies in all over India from advisory perspective with a number of capabilities at PwC India.

Email : tadanori.o.okuda@pwc.com
Mobile : +91 882 670 7989

Okuda Tadanori has engaged in wide variety of audit clients and other financial advisory engagements including first-time adoption of IFRS since entered PwC Japan at 2007.

Besides, he has performed as seminar instructor of Japanese accounting update for out-side participant and I have performed as a part-time instructor of consolidated financial statements and Business combinations for IFRS for college student.

He has been assigned to PwC India Gurgaon office as a manager since January 2021.  As Japan business Desk of PwC India, he supports Japanese companies in India for all lines of services from assurance, tax and advisory perspective.

He is a member of Japanese Institute of Certificated Public Accountants.

Email: taichi.z.zakimi@pwc.com

Taichi Zakimi has been involved in auditing and other financial advisory engagements including IFRS implementation for many listed companies of various kinds of industries for more than 15 years. In addition, he is experienced in providing advisory services for pre-IPO companies to address issues faced by them on their path toward an IPO and their preparations for being a listed company after the IPO.

Taichi has been assigned to PwC India, in the Bangalore office as a manager since September 2019. As a part of the Japan Business Desk of PwC India, he is supporting Japanese companies in India from assurance, tax and advisory perspectives.

He is a member of Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Building No 10, 18th Floor, Tower-C, DLF Cyber City, Gurgaon 122002
Mobile: +91 (0) 95 6050 2295
E-mail: himura.megumi@pwc.com

After working in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, Megumi Himura worked for an accounting firm in India from 2017 to 2018 and engaged with incorporation procedures, auditing/taxation and legal affairs with Japanese corporations.

She joined PwC India in February 2019.

She was engaged in expatriates’ personal income tax returns preparation & its reviews, tax compliance advisory, quarterly salary tax withholding returns of the company, FRRO, obtaining PAN and visa extension assistance for expatriates at Japanese corporations all over India.

As of April 2022, she has been engaged in all the tax related and Advisory support for Japanese corporations all over India as a manager.

Chihiro Ashida is an Associate in the Japan business desk of PwC India and is based out of Gurgaon. She started her career in India as an consultant at an Indian local accounting firm in 2017 before joining in PwC. Her key role there was promoting communications with Japanese senior managements in clients there. She has joined PwC India Gurgaon office in January 2018 as an associate in Japan Business Desk. As Japan business desk of PwC India, she is supporting Japanese companies in India and Japan head office for all related tax issues, corporate tax, income tax, transfer pricing, litigation support etc and also communication support for transaction related as following left. In the career in PwC India, she is interactive with Japanese managements in clients and internal members in PwC India to achieve smooth facilitations of engagements and further business developments. 

Takenari Tsuru is a US Certified Public Accountant. While in university, he interned at a mid-sized accounting office in India. After graduating, he worked at a major foreign-affiliated consulting firm before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC in 2019.

At PwC Aarata, Takenari has worked both as a member of audit staff and as chief auditor for accounting audit work for listed and private companies in a wide variety of industries, including the manufacturing, distribution and service industries. His experience also includes audit work for companies that have introduced IFRS, referral work for foreign-affiliated global companies operating in Japan based on US GAAP, and accounting advisory work.

After working with manufacturers and importers, she took on a role related to the export of automotive parts as the sales manager in Japan. From 2018 to 2019, she worked for a Japanese manufacturer in India. In October 2021, she joined PwC India's Japan Business Desk in Chennai. She delivers our comprehensive solutions to the clients.

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