Ajay Upadhyay returns to AZB & Partners as Practice Head – Compliance and Investigation

Ajay Upadhyay returns to AZB & Partners as Practice Head – Compliance and Investigation

Ajay Upadhyay has moved to AZB & Partners as Practice Head – Compliance and Investigation in Mumbai from KPMG India. Before joining AZB, he was working as a Partner in the Forensic Services at KPMG India.

Before joining KPMG India in December 2017, he was working with AZB &Partners as Practice Head – Compliance and Investigation Practice from 2015 to 2017.

He has also worked with Ernst & Young LLP between 2010 and 2015 where he climbed up to the position of as Director in Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services.

In a Press Release, AZB & Partners announced Ajay's rejoining in the firm. According to the Press Release, "AZB is committed to further deepen and expand its White Collar Crime Investigation and Defence Practice. We are delighted to inform that Ajay Upadhyay who had started and led this practice area in 2015 is rejoining AZB."

The existing team led by Soumit Nikhra will continue to work alongside Ajay. Soumit had taken over the Compliance and Investigation Practice at the firm after Ajay left the firm in 2017.

Ajay is a Chartered Accountant having two decades of experience in areas of Dispute Resolution, Expert Witness, Forensic Investigations, Financial Crime Investigations, Regulatory Investigations and Advisory Services.