About Us

About Us

Established in 2008, we have been providing consultancy services in Dubai for more than a decade. Our firm is the leading provider of accounting and bookkeeping services in the UAE. Along with these, we also provide VAT and Excise training, virtual CFO, talent acquisition and many more corporate services in Dubai and rest of the UAE. Our team of experts helps business entrepreneurs setup in the UAE from start to finish. We provide everything you need for company formation in Dubai, all in one place: from formation, recruitment, accounting, payroll, legal agreements to liquidation.

We are the trusted advisors and counsellors for your business organization. We are problem solvers with a passion for excellence. We are intellectually curious and highly collaborative. Our approach is informal, and we minimize hierarchy with our highly skilled professionals.

We do not regard individuals based on their title, but their competence and values. We uphold the obligation for each member of our firm to question anything that he or she feels is not right for our clients.

We are a network of committed professionals that have come from all over the world, with rich experience, extensive backgrounds, different languages and varied areas of expertise. What we look for are individuals with 21st century management skills, integrity, a sharp analytical mind, creativity, and the ability to work with people at all levels in an organization.

We go to extraordinary lengths to support our clients to succeed. We have a passion for helping the people we work with. Our passion lies in how our clients trust and extend their loyalty to our business and its people. As an organization, we are bound by a shared set of values and a culture of support, care, trust, respect, and dependency.

Our firm is a network of professionals who are experts in their areas of work, and it is led not by an individual, but by a team of like-minded people who believe in growth.

We constantly measure new ideas, opportunities, and ways of adding value to our work and our clients’ businesses.

Our Team

Rajeev Kulkarni

Managing Partner

Our Managing Partner Mr. Rajeev Kulkarni is a fellow member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and an Associate Member of the Accountants and Auditors Association of UAE (AAA). He is also an Associate Member of The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE) and Professional Member of ISACA, USA. He has been in practice since 1989 with more than 30 years of professional experience in the field of accounting, audit, taxation, corporate law and business advisory services.

He has been associated with a number of reputed and well known audit and consulting firms as a partner/director in India, Sultanate of Oman and United Arab Emirates. Mr. Kulkarni is a registered and licensed insolvency practitioner in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM).

Mr. Kulkarni is passionate about mentoring young UAE National entrepreneurs, startups and students of Audit and Accountancy. He has been instrumental in setting up many small and medium size entities all across UAE and subsidiaries and branches of large diversified multinational groups. He takes great interest in promoting UAE among international investors and business community.

Mr. Kulkarni is a strong advocate of corporate social responsibility and has been actively supporting various social causes.

Nandan Bendarkar

Managing Director

Mr. Nandan Bendarkar is the Managing Director of MBK Auditing. He hails from a small town in Maharashtra. Born and brought up in a typical Marathi middle class family, Mr. Bendarkar finished his schooling and Junior College there.

For his under graduate studies, he moved to Pune. His education qualifications are:

  • B.Com from Savitribai Phule University, India
  • ACA from ICAI, India
  • MDP in Strategic Finance from IIM Ahmedabad, India
  • FMVA from Corporate Financial Institute, Canada
  • Professional Stock Trader Part I and Part II Series from Online Trading Academy, USA
  • Level 4 Certificate in Advanced Wealth Management from CISI, UK
  • “Train the Trainer” certificate from TAP Foundation, India

Over the last 30 years, he has worked as a professional at various levels with Landmark Group, Al Hokair Group, Future Group, Neurth Group, Eurostar Group, EFS Group, to name a few. He has travelled over 50 + countries for business and pleasure across 4 continents. Nandan is also The Vice Chairman of GMNI, an international association of legally independent accounting firms.

He has co-authored a paper- Application of multi-criteria decision analysis for investment strategies in the Indian equity market published in the journal- Investment Management and Financial Innovation.

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