Mayank Jain is a Partner in the Indirect Tax practice group in the Mumbai office. With over 11 years of experience in Indirect Tax, he specialises in customs, international trade, Goods and Services Tax, Anti-Profiteering, Foreign Trade Policy and export incentives. He also has cross-functional import/export regulatory competencies including dual-use export controls, Indian Standards, Legal Metrology, Drugs and Cosmetics, Food Safety Standards and the like.
Mayank also regularly advises and provides hand-holding services in relation to investigations conducted by enforcement authorities. He has also appeared numerous times before courts including the Bombay High Court and Supreme Court, Appellate Tribunals, Authority for Advance Rulings and other judicial forums.
Aside from contentious practice, Mayank also provides advisory and transactional services to clients including diligence, document drafting and negotiation as also tax efficient structuring.
He is an active member of trade and industry associations and is often invited to speak on indirect tax by ASSOCHAM and other sectoral industry associations.
Advised Sapphire Foods India Ltd., Hardcastle Restaurants Pvt. Ltd., Subway Systems India Pvt. Ltd. and Jubilant Foodworks Ltd., in relation to anti-profiteering investigations on restaurant services before the High Courts of Bombay, Gujarat and the Supreme Court
Advised Luvata Malaysia Sdn Bhd, in relation to anti-dumping investigations on copper and copper alloy flat rolled products originating in or exported from Malaysia
Advised Pfizer Healthcare India Pvt. Ltd., in relation to customs debonding and representational services before the High Court of Madras and Supreme Court on refunds under the Foreign Trade Policy
Advised Kerneos India Aluminate Technologies Pvt. Ltd., in relation to the applicability of BIS norms on High Alumina Refractory Cement and representational services before the High Court of Andhra Pradesh
Advised Tata Group, in relation to various advisory and representational services before the High Court of Bombay in relation to service tax and GST
