Velten will join the firm on May 2 2013, and will be based in the Singapore office.
He is group head of tax for Asia Pacific at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, one of Asia’s leading and longest-running independent brokerage and investment groups. Velten has also headed the tax function of a leading global investment bank in the past and was a partner at both PwC and Baker & McKenzie in Singapore.
He will take a lead role in Asia Pacific and Southeast Asia in implementing the Financial Services Industry strategy for tax.