About Bhatt & Joshi Associates
A Gujarat-High-Court law firm with a focused advisory practice across all 20 IFSC business heads at GIFT City. Established MCMLXXVIII. Headquartered at Ahmedabad.
Who we are
Bhatt & Joshi Associates is a Gujarat-based law firm with a deep specialisation in GIFT-City IFSC advisory, cross-border financial services, sanctions compliance, insurance and reinsurance structuring, and the Income-tax Act 2025. The firm's signature is treatise-grade output - every conclusion is anchored in verbatim statutory or regulatory text, and every advisory engagement is structured around a documented Premise → Authority → Application → Conclusion chain.
What we do
We advise foreign banks, foreign insurers, foreign asset-managers and Indian family offices on lawful market entry into India through the GIFT-City IFSC and the wider mainland regulatory architecture. We are equally engaged on the compliance-led work that bounds such engagements - OFAC, OFSI, FATF, EU sanctions perimeter; FEMA and RBI guidance; IRDAI and IFSCA filings.
Published library
The firm maintains a free practitioner library: handbooks on each IFSC business head, long-form monographs and research volumes. The library is free to download; a curated resources page aggregates the primary-source instruments the booklets cite.
Founders and advocates
Where we appear
Before the High Court of Gujarat, the court for the State in which GIFT City sits, and before courts, tribunals and authorities across India:
- High Court of Gujarat
- Supreme Court of India
- National Company Law Tribunal
- Debts Recovery Tribunal
- Income Tax Appellate Tribunal and Commissioner (Appeals)
- GST Appellate Tribunal
- Customs appellate forums
- Enforcement Directorate
- Competition Commission of India
- SEBI
- Commercial courts
- Arbitral tribunals
- Gujarat revenue forums
Standard of practice
The Firm advises and assists clients exclusively in matters consistent with applicable U.S., European Union, United Kingdom, United Nations and Indian sanctions and anti-money-laundering regimes. The Firm does not advise on, structure or facilitate transactions whose principal purpose or principal effect is to bring a designated person into a regulated market in a manner that is foreseeably exposed to a sanctions perimeter the parties cannot lawfully discharge.
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