About
Provided by WTS Taxise
The practice is best known for providing highly specialised international tax, indirect tax and transfer pricing advisory services to multinationals. Involved in significant global value chain, financing and M&A transactions, the team works with clients to develop and implement their global tax strategies. The firm has advised:
- a Fortune 500 semi-conductor equipment company on the indirect tax, customs and export controls aspects of the establishment of their global manufacturing facility and global principal entity in an ASEAN country.
- a technology company headquartered in Singapore on their global value chain structuring covering countries in Asia and Europe.
- a French technology company on the restructuring of their tax model to reshore their principal entity to France and recharacterise their Asian manufacturing and distribution entities as regional entrepreneurial or routine entities.
- a U.S. fabless semiconductor company on the transfer of fixed assets and inventory in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea and Thailand as part of a global divestiture of a business unit valued at USD2.75 bn.
- a U.S. headquartered global Fortune 500 technology company on their tax and trade issues around the structuring of their APAC warranty and repair programme.
- numerous investment funds and family offices on tax aspects of their fund formation, including assistance with obtaining fund incentives from the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
