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18-20
WTS Global
English, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), French, Spanish, Tagalog
Taxise Asia LLC (“WTS Taxise”) is a Singapore-based boutique law firm specialising in international tax and international trade law. Founded in 2019 by some of the region’s market-leading international tax and international trade lawyers and practitioners, WTS Taxise offers practical and audit conflict-free advice on complex local and international tax and international trade matters drawn from its unique mix of professionals including lawyers, tax accountants, economists, academics and senior former in-house tax specialists in its ranks. WTS Taxise is a member firm of WTS Global, an international network of selected tax firms, with presence in more than 100 countries worldwide.
- Accounting
- Consumer goods and services
- Financial services
- Healthcare
- Industrials
Practice group A title: International Tax, International Trade, Private Client
Advisor: Eugene Lim
Job title: Founding Principal
Email: eugene.lim@taxiseasia.com
Recent matter highlights:
- 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.
- Advised a technology company headquartered in Singapore on their global value chain structuring covering countries in Asia and Europe.
- Advised 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.
- Advised 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 billion.
- Advised a U.S. headquartered global Fortune 500 technology company on their tax and trade issues around the structuring of their Asia Pacific warranty and repair programme.
- Advised 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.
Represented various companies on income tax, indirect tax and stamp duty disputes in Singapore and various countries in the Asia Pacific region.
Practice group B title: Transfer Pricing
Advisor: Christine Schwarzl
Job title: Associate Principal
Email: christine.schwarzl@taxiseasia.com
Recent matter highlights:
- Conducted several feasibility studies for a global Theme Park operator to define options and decide on the best legal and operating model structures (and locations) for their China, UK and Malaysia operations.
- Conducted 2 design workshops to define the legal and operating model options for a global electronics company, moving their global headquarters from Europe to Asia. In Phase 2, conducted a feasibility study to assist the client to select their preferred legal and operating model option and an implementation plan developed.
- Conducted a risk review for a global wealth management company making investments for retail and wholesale investors, based on crypto currency investments. The project required a global review of transfer pricing risks of the proposed operating model and intercompany transactions across 8 jurisdictions globally. Several recommendations were made, to manage TP risk – and all were implemented.
- Conducted a risk review for a proposed digital token/NFP marketplace and trading structure across more than 10 countries globally. The TP risk associated with around 10 intercompany transactions was assessed and several recommendations were executed to manage the identified risks.
