Reena is a Senior Partner and heads the International Trade & Indirect Taxation Practice at the Firm.
She is a lawyer of eminence with more than 25 years of work experience and specialisation in the areas of international tradeand indirect taxation. She represents clients regularly before the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal, as wellas before various High Courts and the Supreme Court of India. She has extensive court room experience with more than 300reported cases argued by her.
In the domain of international trade, Reena has represented clients comprising domestic and foreign industries, as well as userindustries in India before the Designated Authority, Directorate General of Trade Remedies, and higher forums. She has alsosuccessfully argued the highest number of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy cases before the Tribunal. She has also assistedclients in trade remedial investigations in foreign jurisdictions.
She has been regularly providing advisory services and has been involved in dispute resolution for high-profile matters relatingto customs, excise, service tax, FEMA, and GST. Critical issues handled by her include classification under the HarmonizedSystem Nomenclature, valuation, export promotion schemes, drawback, EOUs, SEZs, inverted duty structure, admissibility ofcredits, transitional issues in GST, export refunds. She regularly assists clients in the transition to the GST regime.
She has also conducted Internal Management audits for optimization of tax liability, identifying issues/risks for potentialdisputes with departmental authorities and restructuring of transactions undertaken for various clients including some ofIndia’s major conglomerates and multinational corporations in the oil & gas, specialty materials and chemicals, steel andmanufacturing sector.
