The firm
Built on practice, not theory.
Veritas is Latin for truth. We believe that's the only standard worth building strategy on — because plans rarely fail from a lack of ambition. They fail in the gap between the deck and the ground.
Veritas Strategic Advisory was founded in Kathmandu in 2025, built on four years of prior professional practice in finance, reporting and advisory. We exist to close that gap for organizations operating in Nepal and the wider South Asian region. Our teams pair international frameworks with on-the-ground fluency: in the regulatory environment, the talent market, the banking system, and the pace of change specific to this part of the world.
We carry no legacy conflicts, no template library to resell, and no incentive to stretch an engagement a week longer than it needs. What we have is focus: a small senior team, six advisory capabilities backed by a specialist network, and the ambition to earn a place beside Nepal's most trusted firms — one mandate at a time.
- Businesses advised across the team's practice
- 55+
- Businesses advised across the team's practice
- Sectors worked in
- 18+
- Sectors worked in
- Advisory capabilities
- 6
- Advisory capabilities
- On every engagement
- Senior-led
- On every engagement
What we stand on
Clarity
We tell clients what we actually find, not what's easiest to hear. Every engagement starts with an honest, evidence-based read of the current state — because a plan built on comfortable assumptions is already failing.
Rigor
Our recommendations are stress-tested against data, precedent, and Nepal's regulatory reality — not intuition alone. We are only as bold as the evidence allows, and we document every assumption so you can challenge it.
Partnership
We stay through implementation. Strategy without follow-through is a memo, not a result. We embed with your team, transfer capability, and measure ourselves on outcomes — not slide counts.
Our commitments
Trust is earned one engagement at a time.
We would rather show you how we work than borrow credibility. These are the commitments every client can hold us to — in writing, in the engagement letter.
Senior-led. Specialist when needed.
A senior adviser stays on the engagement from the first call through to delivery, including the reviews and the decision meetings. Where a matter needs deeper technical expertise we bring in the right specialist, rather than staffing juniors against a partner's name.
Transparent scope and fees
Every proposal sets out the deliverables, the meeting frequency, the timeline, the assumptions and the fee before any work begins. If the work changes we re-scope together, so no invoice ever contains a surprise. Where we cannot help, we say so at the first meeting, not the last.
Your capability, not our dependency
We document the processes, train your people and leave behind reporting your team can run without us. We measure success by how little you need us afterwards — that is what brings clients back for the next problem.
The person behind Veritas
Krishna Khanal
Co-Founder & Corporate Advisory Lead
Krishna leads the corporate, regulatory and foreign investment side of Veritas. His work covers company and OCR matters, foreign investment approval, assurance support and banking-related advisory.
He works with businesses at the points where a decision meets a regulator — setting up, restructuring, bringing in foreign capital, or answering a question that has to be right the first time.
Areas of focus
- Corporate & Regulatory
- Foreign Investment
- Assurance Support
- Banking Advisory
One firm. Multiple areas of specialist expertise.
The expertise behind Veritas
Veritas works with a network of experienced professionals who contribute specialist knowledge to relevant engagements. This lets us bring the right expertise to each problem, rather than forcing every client into a one-size-fits-all model.
Bibek Pangeni
NFRS, Tax & Reinsurance Consultant
Brings specialist professional experience in NFRS, taxation and reinsurance matters, and contributes technical expertise to relevant engagements.
Sangita Mahato
FinTech & Financial Technology Consultant
Contributes specialist perspective in financial technology, digital finance and technology-enabled financial solutions.
Aavas Bhandari
US Market & Outsourcing Consultant
Based in the United States, contributes specialist perspective on US-market requirements, accounting outsourcing and cross-border finance operations.
Bishnu Prasad Timalsina
International Advisory Consultant
Contributes international professional experience across financial reporting, international advisory and cross-border considerations.
Swikriti Acharya
Banking, Outsourcing & Logistics Consultant
Contributes specialist experience in banking, finance outsourcing and logistics-related business operations.
Roshan Bhattarai
Strategic Advisory Lead
Roshan leads Veritas Strategic Advisory with a focus on helping businesses turn financial information into practical management decisions. His work spans financial strategy, business performance, financial reporting, costing, process improvement and strategic advisory.
Professional affiliation. Professionals in the Veritas advisory network may contribute on a consultancy, collaboration, referral or engagement-specific basis. Their inclusion does not indicate full-time employment, partnership or exclusive association with Veritas. Participation in engagements is subject to applicable professional, employment, confidentiality, independence and conflict-of-interest requirements.
Where Veritas adds value
Veritas works alongside management, internal finance teams, accountants, auditors, banks, lawyers and other professional advisors. Our role is to bring additional financial, technical and strategic expertise where it creates value.
Audit & Assurance Support
We do not undertake statutory audit engagements. We help management prepare for and navigate the audit process, and coordinate with the appointed auditor.
Accounting & Bookkeeping
We can provide or support accounting and finance functions where they form part of a broader advisory or management-support engagement.
Tax & Compliance
We provide advisory, planning and compliance-related support depending on the nature and scope of the engagement.
Specialist Matters
Where a matter requires independently appointed professional expertise, we work alongside your existing advisors or coordinate with appropriate specialists.