Nikhil BediPartner and Head – Forensic, Financial Advisory, Deloitte

Nikhil is a Partner and Head of the Deloitte Forensic practice in India.

He holds over 16 years of professional experience of which he has spent over 10 years advising varied clients including corporates, financial institutions, hedge funds and private equity funds on a wide range of Forensic services such as Business Intelligence, including Integrity Due Diligence, Counterparty Due Diligence and Senior Management Due Diligence, Post-investment investigations, Asset tracing, operational risk mitigation engagements and also on Transactional and Vendor Due Diligences.

He has pioneered Asset tracing and the Anti-counterfeiting solutions at Deloitte in India and has successfully launched the political risk mapping for clients looking to enter into India and Asia. Nikhil specializes in carrying out cross border investigations involving capital flows across jurisdictions and assists clients in pre/ post-investment, investment monitoring and operational risk mitigation strategies.

Past experience:

Prior to joining Deloitte, Nikhil led the Corporate Intelligence team in KPMG. In the past, Nikhil was a Director with Kroll where he led various investigations and intelligence engagements across South Asia.

Nikhil is a Chartered Accountant and a graduate in Commerce from the University of Pune.