About the firm
A practice built around businesses that cross borders.
Ascendum Corporate Advisory LLC was formed to serve owner-managed businesses that operate in more than one country and were being asked to coordinate their own advisers. We file in the United States, Canada, India and the UAE, and we take a single position across all of them.
The practice is chartered-accountant-led. The people who sign the advice are the people who appear before the revenue authorities when a return is questioned.
Leadership
Who you will work with
The firm was founded by Nirav Shah and Mehul Shah. Engagements are led personally by one of them.
Nirav Shah
Founder — Chartered Accountant
Leads the cross-border tax practice, with a focus on inbound structuring for Indian and Gulf groups entering the United States. Advises on treaty positions, transfer pricing coordination and the tax consequences of holding structures before they are put in place.
International tax · US & India · Structuring
Mehul Shah
Founder — Corporate & Compliance
Runs US and Canadian compliance, payroll and the corporation creation practice, including IRS and CRA representation. Works with owner-managed groups on incorporation, bank credit proposals and the reporting that supports them.
US & Canada tax · Payroll · Corporate advisory
Values
How we work
Accountability
One partner owns the engagement from scoping to filing. When a deadline moves, you hear it from us first.
Technical depth
Positions are researched and documented to the standard we would defend in an assessment, not to the standard that merely files.
Plain-English advice
Advice arrives in writing, in language an owner can act on, with the statutory reference available if it is needed.
Technology
Records, calendars and workpapers live in one system so the same numbers support every jurisdiction's return.
Talk to someone who files in all four countries.
A short call is usually enough to tell you what the position is and what it will cost to keep it compliant.