About us

History & Profile

KLSA LLP provide a wide range of services including audit and assurance, business and financial advisory, taxation and company secretarial services across diverse industry and client profiles.

The changing demands of global business mean that strategic planning is essential to successfully deal with the challenges that lie ahead. We are proud of our flexibility and readiness to adapt and apply new and innovative solutions to our clients.

This global perspective and local focus drives us forward to maintain and enhance the quality of service that you expect from us for over three decades.

As part of our global growth policy initiated from East Africa, the London office was established in 1972. Globally, the firm now has over twenty partners in associated offices in East Africa and Canada. The London office has six partners with 30 professional staff.
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Our Philosophy

We deliver partner led services and focus on our client's needs and objectives.

We are committed to promoting high standards of discipline, excellence and ethics through adherence to the firm's quality standards and value charter and the laws of the country and the profession.

We believe in recruiting and retaining sound professional and support staff, providing training and opportunities for growth in a stimulating and an enabling environment.

At KLSA, relationship is our top priority. We strongly believe that good relationship with all stakeholders is a pre-requisite to success.

We are dedicated to maintaining a strong internal administration, thereby enabling provision of quality service and ensuring client satisfaction.
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Our Mission

To support and guide clients to achieve success in their business by acting as trusted business advisors.

To provide quality, cost effective personalised and innovative business solutions to meet the changing needs of our clients.

Empower our manpower through continuous professional development to face the dynamic global challenges.
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Our People

KLSA's partners and staff come from a variety of backgrounds to create a multi disciplinary firm to provide expert advice and high quality service.
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Our Partners

Ashvin Shah, FCA MABRP Ashvin has been a partner for over 20 years with KLSA and has extensive experience in advising businesses in a range of industries in East Africa and UK. He holds an insolvency licence from The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. As well as being an Audit and Insolvency partner, he also specialises in providing tax and financial advice.

He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Ms Shilpa Chheda, FCCA Shilpa started here career in the Accountancy profession at our associated office in Nairobi, Kenya in 1989. She qualified in 1992 and swiftly progressed to a partner in the London office in 1998. Shilpa's client base ranges from self employed individuals and family owned companies with turnover in excess of £250m and asset portfolios of over £100m. As well as being an Audit partner, she is in charge of staff training and our in-house IT department.

She is a fellow member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.

Ketan Shah, BA FCA Ketan trained and qualified in the UK in 1991.He has been a partner of the firm since 1994. He has extensive experience in advising businesses in Kenya, Uganda and UK. He was instrumental in setting our associated offices in Uganda in 1997. As part of our growth vision in the UK, Ketan was transferred to the London office in 2002. He currently specialised in the care home sector and has been involved in several transactions relating to the acquisition of care homes.

He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and is currently the managing partner of the London office.

Viren Doshi, FCCA Viren joined KLSA in December 2006 as a partner. He was formerly a partner at Ascot Drummond, a firm of Chartered Accountants in Central London. Having qualified in 1992, he has worked in general pratice advising in all accountancy matters since then.

He is a fellow member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.

Vipin Shah, FCCA Vipin joined KLSA in February 2009 as a partner when KLSA acquired the practice of V Shah & Co. V Shah & Co was formed by Vipin Shah in 1991 with a few clients and the practice was successfully built by Vipin and Chandrakant Shah. Vipin qualified as a Certified Accountant in 1977 and has extensive experience in the profession serving individuals, partnerships and small to medium sized companies and groups.

He is a fellow member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.

Fayaaz Shariff, BSc FCCA Fayaaz qualified in 2001 with KLSA. In November 2004, he left KLSA to join Grant Thornton and RSM Robson Rhodes as an Audit Senior and fast tracked to Manager by May 2006. His portfolio included Listed and Private companies in different industry sectors such as Construction, Motor Industry, Care Industry, Recruitment, PFI, Real Estate and Retail. Fayaaz was appointed as a Director in July 2008 with KLSA and promoted to technical partner with effect from 1 January 2009. He currently manages a portfolio of over 50 companies in various sectors.

He is a fellow member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants

Shakunt Shah, BSc ACA CTA Shakunt joined KLSA in June 2009 as Tax Director to further enhance our position and business offering to our clients. Shakunt qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1990 and as a Chartered Tax Adviser in 1997. He was until recently a senior tax manager at BDO Stoy Hayward and his clients ranged from private to AIM listed companies in various sectors including Distribution, Property, Hotel & Leisure, Technology and Manufacturing. Shakunt’s primary expertise lies in corporation tax and he also has good knowledge of personal tax and shareholder issues. He enjoys building strong relationships with his clients and supporting the team by proactively implementing tax solutions.

He is a member of the Association of Chartered Accountants.

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Quality Control

In striving to achieve our mission we adopt stringent quality control procedures. We operate in accordance with formal Quality Control Procedures based on International Standards of Quality Control that provide guidance on maintaining an adequate system of quality control over all aspects of professional work.

Comprehensive manuals for all areas have been developed by the firm in order to ensure that work carried out is in accordance with the outlined standards. Partners and staff involved in such assignments are therefore required to undergo rigorous training to ensure that they are proficient with the operations, risks, legislation and regulations governing these industries.

Professional quality assurance and quality control are integral elements in all our operations. They guarantee that the solutions are the right ones. Top quality service with zero defects remains our highest priority.

KLSA partners conduct peer reviews of the office annually. The reviews include formal reporting on the system of quality control in operation, and a detailed analysis on the results of the review, including any emerging best practices that may be replicated across the network or any remedial action recommended.
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