The Founder’s Office
Kamalkant Lakhera
Founder & Managing Director
A senior, confidential point of contact for mandates the firm is prepared to own — and a plain account of how we decide what to take, and what we decline.
Operating conviction
Why the firm exists, in the founder's words
Lakhera Global Services was built to do one thing the market rarely offers — take ownership of a mandate and carry it to a documented result.
We are accountable for the outcome, not the recommendation
Advice is the easy part of this market. The firm exists to do the harder thing — take a mandate, own it, and carry it to a documented result. When LGS accepts an engagement, the accountability sits with us, end to end.
Ownership means one firm carries it through
A mandate should not change hands between people who advise and people who execute. We structure the work, coordinate the stakeholders and authorities, and run it to a clean hand-over — so there is never a gap where ownership is unclear.
Restraint is part of the discipline
We decline mandates we cannot own. That is not caution for its own sake — it is the only honest way to promise ownership. What we accept, we are prepared to stand behind.
How the office engages
A senior, confidential way in for serious mandates
For engagements that need to be weighed personally, the Founder's Office is the point of contact — from the first conversation to a documented close.
A direct, confidential first conversation
Significant mandates begin with a senior conversation, held in confidence. The Founder's Office is the point of contact for engagements that need to be weighed personally before the firm commits to them.
Tested against how we decide what to take
Every mandate is evaluated against the firm's acceptance framework before it is accepted. The office is where that judgement is made — and where mandates the firm cannot own are declined plainly.
Senior accountability that stays in place
When a mandate is accepted, senior people remain accountable through to a documented close. The office does not hand off the relationship once work begins — it stays answerable for the result.
Principles
The standards the office holds itself to
These are the operating standards behind every mandate the firm accepts — stated plainly, because clarity about the limits is what makes the commitment credible.
Confidentiality by default
Mandates are described by type and outcome, never by client. Discretion is the precondition for the work, not a courtesy added to it.
Say what we will not do
The mandates the firm declines are stated as plainly as the ones it accepts. Clarity about the limits is what makes the commitment credible.
Document the result
An engagement is finished when there is a documented close and a clean hand-over — not when a recommendation has been delivered.
Cross-border by structure
Mandates that run across India and the UAE are coordinated by one accountable firm, so jurisdiction never becomes the seam the work falls through.
From the Founder
We built Lakhera Global Services to do one thing the market rarely offers — take ownership of a mandate and carry it to a documented result. On every engagement, the firm is accountable for the outcome, not the recommendation.
Questions
The Founder's Office, answered plainly
It is the senior point of contact for mandates that warrant being weighed personally before the firm commits — and the place where the firm's judgement on what to accept, and what to decline, is made.
When a mandate is significant, sensitive, or cross-border enough that you want a senior, confidential conversation before any commitment is made. For all enquiries, the confidential mandate intake is the right first step.
Senior accountability remains in place through to a documented close. The office does not hand off the relationship once work starts — it stays answerable for the outcome the firm agreed to own.
The firm declines mandates it cannot own end to end. Each engagement is tested against the Mandate Acceptance Framework before it is accepted; restraint is treated as part of the discipline, not an exception to it.
Confidentiality is the default. Mandates are described by type and outcome, never by client identity or commercial terms, and discretion governs every conversation with the office.
Speak to the Founder's Office
If the mandate is one we can own, the conversation starts here.
Begin with a confidential note about what needs to happen. We evaluate every mandate against our acceptance framework before we take it — and decline the rest.