The partnership.
Advisory Monks Consulting is co-founded and partner-led. Every engagement runs through the partnership directly. There is no associate layer between you and the people who built the firm.
Shamik Ukil
Shamik Ukil is a Big 4 alumnus with 11 years of practice across India and globally. He co-founded Advisory Monks Consulting in 2021 to bring institutional-grade advisory to founders and startups, foreign companies, and investors operating across the India corridor, without the scale, layers, or conflict-of-interest constraints that come with a Big Four practice.
He leads the firm's commercial and institutional practice: venture capital and family-office mandates, M&A advisory, GCC India engagements, and the cross-border structuring that brings global businesses into India and Indian businesses outwards. His practice sits at the intersection of capital markets, corporate strategy, and regulatory architecture, translating complex multi-jurisdiction situations into engagement scopes that boards and investment committees can act on. He has advised Indian groups expanding internationally across corridors including the US, UK, Singapore, the UAE and beyond. Also foreign parents establishing Indian subsidiaries and GCCs, and VC funds across portfolio compliance, due diligence, and exit documentation.
- VC & Investor Advisory
- GCC India · M&A
- Startups & fundraising
- Institutional mandates
- Cross-border structuring
Akash Ukil
Akash Ukil is co-founder of Advisory Monks Consulting and a Chartered Accountant by qualification. He leads the firm's regulatory and tax practice: Direct and Indirect Tax advisory, FEMA, transfer pricing, valuation advisory, and the cross-border structuring that underpins the firm's global corridors, including but not limited to India-US, India-UK, India-Singapore and India-UAE.
His engagements span Rule 11UA / 11UAA structuring for share allotment and angel-tax defence, and ESOP valuation analysis. On the tax side, he leads the Pravasi Desk for NRIs (Form 13 LDC, RNOR planning, USD repatriation), Form 3CEB transfer-pricing analysis, and DTAA-based structuring across 90+ treaties.
- Direct & Indirect Tax advisory
- FEMA · DTAA · Transfer Pricing
- Valuation advisory
- Pravasi Desk · NRI tax