Henry Wong

Henry is a Tax partner based in Shanghai with KPMG China. He has specialized in tax advisory and M&A services for more than 21 years. He has extensive international and China tax experience and serves clients across different industries on direct and indirect tax advisory projects, due diligence work, merger & acquisition advisory, cross-border tax compliance and tax planning, as well as day to day general corporate tax compliance engagements.

Henry leads a large number of tax structuring and due diligence projects involving foreign acquisitions of mainland China target companies in different sectors, including financial services, real estate, manufacturing, retail & distribution, TMT, FinTech, education and healthcare. He has also advised domestic Chinese clients on tax and financing strategies for outbound investments, including investments into offshore PE and real estate investment funds.

Henry serves many financial sector clients including banks, insurance companies, securities and brokerage, commodity trading companies, derivative and foreign exchange trading companies, as well as leasing, asset management companies and investors in distressed assets and non-performing loans (NPL). He also works extensively with various investment fund clients including private equities, real-estate and infrastructure, mutual funds, venture capital funds, debt and credit funds, hedge funds, REITs as well as Chinese funds.

His involvement in the investment fund advisory sector includes all phases of the fund lifecycle. This covers onshore and offshore fund formation and structuring advisory from the tax and regulatory perspectives, profit repatriation planning for funds, investment entry and exit planning, executive/employee compensation/incentive planning, carried interest structure planning as well as post-deal integration and tax optimization work. He also helps client in addressing specific partnership taxation issues. In addition, he provides tax due diligence services to private equity investment funds. Recently, Henry has also led many tax advisory projects for financial services clients including China VAT Reform, US FATCA and Common Reporting Standard (CRS).