About the Group
A professional practice,
extended.
Keprin Group is not a start-up that discovered compliance. It is a tax and corporate advisory practice of more than three decades that has extended the same discipline into international trade, and from there into carbon.
§ 01 · Position
Carbon compliance is a documentation discipline.
A carbon regulator asks the same question a tax authority asks: show me the number, show me where it came from, and show me why the boundary you drew is the right one.
That is the work our founding practice has done since 1992. A tax file assembled for scrutiny assessment and a CBAM evidence pack assembled for an accredited verifier are the same object built from different inputs: a defensible position, supported by traceable source data, structured so that a reviewer who was not in the room can follow it.
Most carbon consultancies are staffed by sustainability generalists. We approach embedded emissions the way a tax practice approaches an assessment: assume the file will be examined, and build it accordingly.
“The number is the easy part. The file behind the number is the engagement.”
§ 02 · History
Three decades, in four movements.
Keprin Consultancy established
Advocate Ketan Arvindrai Vaghani begins practice in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, advising on direct and indirect taxation and representing clients before revenue authorities.
Building the practice
The firm's work grows across income tax and GST advisory, scrutiny and appellate proceedings, search and survey representation, and corporate structuring. An attorney, an accountant and a support team join the practice.
Keprin Overseas Corporation founded
The group extends into international trade: export contracting, trade documentation, logistics and customs compliance across international markets.
EcoSetu
The group's specialist carbon, ESG and digital intelligence division, focused on EU CBAM compliance for energy-intensive industry. It sits within Keprin Overseas Corporation and operates under the management of Keprin Consultancy.
§ 03 · People
The practice is the people in it.
Ketan Arvindrai Vaghani
Proprietor, Keprin Consultancy
Founded Keprin Consultancy in 1992 and has practised as a tax advocate since. Leads the firm's direct and indirect tax work, represents clients in assessment, search and appellate proceedings, and heads the corporate advisory practice.
- Direct & Indirect Tax
- Appellate Representation
- Corporate Advisory
Meet Vaghani
Proprietor, Keprin Overseas Corporation. Practice Lead, EcoSetu
Leads Keprin Overseas Corporation and EcoSetu's carbon and digital intelligence practice. Civil engineer by training, with a master's in international business and three years of operations and regulatory compliance leadership in an audit-driven environment. Built and deployed both of EcoSetu's live compliance tools: an EU CBAM embedded-emissions calculator and a BRSR reporting platform.
- EU CBAM & Embedded Emissions
- GHG Accounting
- Carbon Data Systems
Priyanka Bhavsar
Attorney, Keprin Consultancy
Attorney within the tax and corporate practice, working across advisory matters, statutory compliance and representation before revenue authorities.
Yogesh Parekh
Head Accountant, Keprin Consultancy
Heads the firm's accounting function, covering bookkeeping, reconciliation, statutory filings and the financial records that underpin tax and audit work.
Karthik B
Compliance Manager, Keprin Consultancy
Manages statutory compliance across the practice, including filing calendars, regulatory deadlines, client coordination and matter workflow.
Drashti Thakkar
Consultant, Marketing Strategy
Advises the group on marketing strategy and positioning across its three businesses, covering brand, market communication and the way the practice presents its work.
20+
People across the group
Advocates, accountants, compliance staff, trade operations and technical carbon personnel, working across the three businesses.
- 01Tax advisory and litigation
- 02Accounting and statutory compliance
- 03Corporate and commercial
- 04International trade and export operations
- 05Carbon, ESG and CBAM
- 06Digital and data engineering
§ 04 · How we work
Four commitments we will be held to.
Evidence before opinion
A number that cannot be traced to a source, a factor and a boundary is not an answer. Every figure we produce carries its working with it.
Independence where it matters
We prepare data and we prepare clients for verification. We do not verify our own work, and we say so on every engagement.
Regulatory literacy, not summary
We read the legislation, the implementing acts and the guidance. Positions are taken against the text, not against a consultant's slide deck.
Built to be repeated
Compliance is annual. We leave behind a system a client's own team can run next year, not a report that has to be bought again.
Three businesses. One foundation.
3 operating practices, each with its own mandate, and a shared standard of evidence.