Muhammad Ismail Bharamchari

Leads Arvedel’s work in valuations, transactions, virtual CFO, IFRS reporting, and UAE and US tax.

Founding Partner and Managing Partner

Muhammad Ismail Bharamchari is the Founding Partner and Managing Partner of Arvedel. He advises founders, boards and investors on the decisions that shape a business: what to buy, how to fund it, how to report it and how to grow it across borders.

Ismail founded Arvedel in 2020 after more than seven years with PwC Pakistan (A. F. Ferguson & Co.) and Lucky Cement, part of the Yunus Brothers Group. At PwC he worked in audit, including a secondment to Tax Advisory, and then in Deals, where he built financial models and valuations, led buy-side and sell-side due diligence in sectors from wind power and banking to logistics, steel and cinema, and performed purchase price allocations under IFRS 3 and impairment valuations under IAS 36. As Manager, Investments at Lucky Cement he evaluated and negotiated investments in fintech and LNG, arranged debt financing from an offshore lender, and modelled the move of captive power generation from thermal to renewable energy.

At Arvedel he has led a buy-side acquisition in the marketing industry, serves as virtual CFO to technology businesses in the United States and Germany, and oversees the firm’s IFRS, tax, company formation and outsourcing work for clients across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and South Asia. He is registered with the US Internal Revenue Service as a tax return preparer.

Ismail is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan and of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, has passed CFA Level I, and has served as an examiner for ICAP accounting papers since 2019. He is also Chief Executive Officer of Asraa Hope Foundation, a non-profit organisation.