Our experts

Expert Advisory is not one advisor. It is a network of them.

For each engagement we assemble the right experts from across our panel, give you a single point of contact, and hold ourselves accountable for the result. You gain many minds for the price of one relationship.

Leadership

Who leads the firm

CA Mahesh Pokharel

Founder

Chartered Accountant

A Chartered Accountant with over ten years of experience across accounting, auditing and business advisory, having worked with virtually every major industry and sector in Nepal — including hydropower, hotels and hospitality, and retail. Beyond private practice, he has served as an Under-Secretary handling beruju matters in connection with the Public Accounts Committee, and has worked closely with the country's leading associations and federations on policy advocacy and sector-level reform.

Focus Business advisory, taxation, audit, public financial accountability

The expert network

Many minds, one relationship

14 experts · 7 disciplines

Chartered accountants & auditors

Financial reporting, audit, tax and assurance — including NFRS conversion and beruju resolution.

Anil Shrestha

Managing Partner

CA, LLB

Focus

Company law, restructuring, statutory audit

Twenty years in practice, most of it on company secretarial work and audits for private companies. Signs off the firm's compliance engagements.

Sita Sharma

Partner — Tax

Focus

VAT, income tax assessments, appeals

Handles assessments and appeals at the Inland Revenue Department, from first notice through to representation.

Lawyers & legal advisors

Corporate, commercial and regulatory law; contracts, governance and compliance.

Puja Karki

Legal & Corporate Advisor

LLB, CS

Focus

Contracts, minutes, resolutions, OCR filings

Drafts the contracts, minutes and resolutions that survive scrutiny, and files with the Office of the Company Registrar every week.

Advocate Nirajan Baral

Senior Legal Counsel

LLM

Focus

Corporate and commercial law, regulatory interpretation

Fifteen years in corporate and commercial practice, with a focus on shareholder agreements, joint ventures and regulatory disputes that are better settled than litigated.

Legislative & policy drafters

Drafting of laws, regulations and policy, and the parliamentary and regulatory process behind them.

Kamala Devkota

Legislative Drafting Specialist

LLM, Former Legislative Drafter

Focus

Acts, regulations, directives and parliamentary process

Drafted primary and delegated legislation in government service, and now advises federations and regulators on how a proposal becomes a rule that actually works.

Bishnu Prasad Sapkota

Policy & Public Affairs Advisor

MA Public Policy

Focus

Policy research, position papers, budget submissions

Builds the evidence base behind advocacy — sector tax burden studies, impact assessments and the position papers that go with them.

Former senior officials

High-ranking ex-bureaucrats with deep institutional knowledge of how government actually decides.

Hari Bahadur Khatri

Former Joint Secretary

Former Joint Secretary, Government of Nepal

Focus

Regulatory liaison, licensing, PPP advisory

Three decades in the civil service across industry and infrastructure portfolios. Knows which desk a file sits on and why it has not moved.

Radha Sharma Poudel

Former Under-Secretary

Focus

Public financial accountability, beruju, committee process

Handled audit-irregularity matters in connection with parliamentary oversight, and advises public entities on clearing backlogs before review.

Environmental specialists

EIA, IEE, environmental compliance monitoring and ESG advisory for projects of every scale.

Dr. Sushma Rai

Environmental Assessment Lead

PhD Environmental Science

Focus

EIA, IEE, environmental compliance monitoring

Leads environmental impact studies for hydropower, transmission and industrial projects, and takes them through approval and monitoring.

Prakash Tamang

Social Safeguards & ESG Advisor

MSc Environmental Management

Focus

Social impact, resettlement, ESG reporting

Works on the social side of project approval — impact assessment, resettlement planning and the ESG disclosures lenders now ask for.

Bankers & finance leaders

Project finance, debt structuring, capital markets and senior management experience.

Suresh Manandhar

Project Finance Advisor

MBA, Former Head of Corporate Credit

Focus

Debt structuring, syndication, lender negotiation

Twenty years on the lending side of the table, most recently heading corporate credit. Now structures the deals he used to appraise.

Anjana Shakya

Capital Markets Advisor

CFA

Focus

Financial modelling, IPO readiness, investor documentation

Builds the models and the documentation that fundraising turns on, and prepares companies for the scrutiny that comes with listing.

Industry & management veterans

Hydropower, hospitality, retail and manufacturing leaders with decades on the operating side.

Bibek Adhikari

Systems & Reporting Lead

ACCA

Focus

NFRS, bookkeeping systems, payroll

Builds and cleans up accounting systems for growing companies, then trains the finance teams who run them.

Gopal Shrestha

Hospitality & Retail Advisor

Former Group General Manager

Focus

Operations, costing, multi-property management

Ran hotel and retail operations for two decades before advising on them. Costing conversations tend to get shorter when he is in the room.