Asia Pacific – Tax and Transfer Pricing Expert Authors

Cambodia

Shanghai, China

Beijing City, China

Beijing, China

Stefano heads the tax and trusts practice at Deacons. He has a broad range of advisory and contentious tax experience, ranging from corporate taxation and group reconstructions to personal taxation and trusts and estate planning and management. He advises on all matters of Hong Kong and international tax law, including tax-efficient structuring and restructuring, and tax appeals before the Board of Review and the higher courts. His experience includes cross-border tax planning and Double Taxation Treaty driven tax structuring.

Stefano further advises on all areas of Hong Kong and international trusts, estate planning, and charities, including the drafting of trusts instruments, restructuring of trusts structures, and trusts dispute resolution.

He is a lecturer in revenue law at Hong Kong University, and a regular contributor to legal and industry publications, notably including the Hong Kong Law Journal, the Asia-Pacific Journal of Taxation, and the Asia-Pacific Tax Bulletin. He is a co-author of the seminal Encyclopaedia of Hong Kong Taxation, and the textbook Hong Kong Tax Law: Cases and Materials.

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Deacons Hong Kong

5th Floor, Alexandra House
18 Chater Road Central, Hong Kong

Email: [email protected]

Calvin Ng is a Paralegal, Corporate Commercial at Deacons, Hong Kong's largest and longest established independent law firm.

He is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong with Bachelor of Business Administration (Laws) prior to his completion of Bachelor of Laws and Postgraduate Certificate in Laws at the HKU.

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Deacons Hong Kong

5th Floor, Alexandra House
18 Chater Road Central, Hong Kong

Email: [email protected]

James Tong is a Trainee Solicitor, Corporate Commercial at Deacons, Hong Kong’s largest and longest established independent law firm.

He is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong with two degrees of Bachelor of Business Administration (Laws) and Bachelor of Laws prior to his completion of the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws at the HKU.

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Deacons Hong Kong

5th Floor, Alexandra House
18 Chater Road Central, Hong Kong

Email: [email protected]

Hong Kong

Ameya holds a Bachelors degree in law from Symbiosis Law School, Pune. His primary focus lies in international tax advisory, cross-border structuring, domestic and international tax litigation.

Ameya has been involved in providing regulatory and policy advisory to the Government and multi-national companies in relation to cross-border tax issues, and has also assisted in representing foreign investors before various forums including Tribunals and the High Court.

Ashish holds a Bachelors degree in law from Government Law College, Mumbai.

He focuses on cross-border tax and corporate structuring transactions and has been involved in the recent issues relating to applicability of Minimum Alternate Tax on foreign investors before the High Court.

He has represented clients before various forums including the Tribunals, various High Courts and Supreme Court of India in relation to disputes on international tax.

Ajit is a Chartered Accountant with a Masters in International Taxation from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria. He served in the Indian Revenue Service for 24 years.

Ajit is a litigator and has been arguing direct tax matters before Income Tax Tribunals since 2012. He has to his credit more than 500 cases on direct tax litigation, particularly transfer pricing, including arguing before the Special Bench in the case of Maersk.

Ajit has vast exposure to the Indian APA program as he was involved with the framing of the APA scheme.

Jitendra Jain is Executive Director, Transfer Pricing, at PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited, India

Sriram Govind, LL.M is a research and teaching associate and is pursuing his doctoral studies under the Doctorate in International Business Taxation (DIBT) programme at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, WU, Wien.

Sriram is an India-qualified tax lawyer who worked for over two years with the law firm, Nishith Desai Associates in Mumbai before completing the LL.M in International Tax Law from the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, WU, Wien in 2016.

His expertise includes tax treaty law and tax policy, tax structuring for complex cross-border transactions and tax controversies.

Nishith Desai Associates

India

Nishith Desai Associates

India

India

Nishith Desai Associates

Shree Tax Chambers

Nishith Desai Associates

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LL

Masao Yoshimura is an Associate Professor of Tax Law at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.

He graduated from University of Tokyo (LLB, 1999) and has written and lectured widely on corporate taxation, including international tax law. Among his publications, he recently co-authored a book in Japanese entitled “Treatise on Japanese Tax Law.”

Matheus holds a law degree from the Rio de Janeiro State University Law School (Brazil), and a post-graduate degree in Brazilian Tax Law from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Brazil). Additionally, Matheus holds an LLM degree in International Taxation at New York University.

Since 2010, Matheus has been a member of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), and since 2017 a member of the Portuguese Bar Association (OAP), accumulating sound experience as Tax Attorney.

Currently, he is a tax senior Associate at KPMG in Singapore. His research projects, “Specialized Conflict of Laws” (2008), and “Regulatory Environmental Taxation” (2010) were sponsored by Brazilian Government Agencies.

Matheus has publications on Tax and International Law (especially in the right of secession, treaties law, right to self-determination and humanitarian law).

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KPMG Services Pte. Ltd. (Registration no: 200003956G)
16 Raffles Quay #22-00
Hong Leong Building Singapore 048581

Email: [email protected]

With 20 years of experience in legal practice, together with firm’s strong track-record from 2010 to now, Quang has consistently been recognised as a leading Dispute Settlement Resolution lawyer by The Legal 500, Asia Legal Business, AsiaLaw Profiles, Chambers & Partners, and Chambers Global and is known to foreign investors as a lawyer who ‘resolves a variety of challenging legal matters in Vietnam to get things done; he is also excellent at negotiating legal proceedings, arbitration and out-of-court settlements.’

Under Quang's leadership, the firm has successfully represented clients and advised on a variety of local and international disputes spanning all major areas, covering foreign investment, commercial transactions, tax-litigation, maritime and construction.

Quang is also a well-known arbitrator of the Vietnam International Arbitration Centre.

Cao Dang Duy is a Senior Associate based in R&T LCT Lawyers' Hanoi office, practising in both contentious and non-contentious matters.

Duy specialises in foreign investment, where he has assisted in facilitating and closing multiple M&A transactions across major industries. He is able to tap into his experience in corporate advisory, labour, intellectual property, banking and finance to assist and advise clients on a broad range of disputes.

Together with the firm’s Top-Tier Dispute Resolution practice group, Duy has been involved in the successful resolution and settlement of commercial disputes in Vietnamese courts of all levels.