Founder and Managing Partner

V. Lakshmikumaran is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan.

Lakshmikumaran advises companies in all areas of taxation, including International Taxation and Transfer Pricing, Goods and Services Tax (GST), Customs, Excise, Service Tax, Value Added Tax (VAT), Foreign Trade Policy, Special Economic Zones, offering consulting, advisory, litigation and compliance services. He has also successfully represented clients from many countries in several anti-dumping, subsidy and trade investigations initiated by India. He is considered as an authority in trade remedy laws and TRIPs and has handled several disputes between companies and Government authorities in various countries.

As a delegate of the International Chamber of Commerce, Lakshmikumaran has attended the WCO-HS (World Customs Organization – Harmonised System) Committee meetings on Classification in Brussels. He has addressed the WCO GATT Valuation Workshop on Customs Valuation.

He regularly delivers talks on diverse topics in international tax, transfer pricing, international trade, customs, excise, service tax, intellectual property, and corporate laws. He has been invited to speak at several acclaimed institutions in India and abroad. For over 30 years, He has handled several high profile litigations and has led the firm in representing clients in over 40,000 litigations before Supreme Court of India, High Courts, tribunals and quasi-judicial authorities. He and was instrumental in devising certain key tax policies of the Indian government.

Managing Partner

Mr V. Lakshmikumaran did his M.Sc. (Mathematics) and LL.B. from University of Madras.

Lakshmikumaran was part of the Indian Revenue Service for about ten years before he founded LKS.