APAC

Overview

At A&M Tax APAC, we offer services across all tax disciplines to clients based in APAC, spanning various industries and functional areas, without any audit-based conflict of interest. We take a proactive approach in analyzing unique business situations of our clients and help them develop tailored tax strategies. Our multi-disciplinary tax service teams provide our clients with expert tax guidance to help them navigate the complexities of tax regulations, maximize efficiencies, and ensure that they are tax compliant. We emphasize a partnership approach with our clients, focusing on maximizing stakeholder value and driving sustainable change.

The A&M Advantage

No Audit Conflicts

Unlike many traditional accounting firms, A&M is not an audit firm, which allows us to provide tax services without the constraints of auditor independence rules. This freedom enables us to offer a broader range of services and more comprehensive support to our clients without any conflicts of interest.

Senior Resource Depth

We provide a senior-led approach that’s highly attuned to our clients’ needs and business strategies. Our responsive team of specialized professionals ensures that we can quickly address priority client needs.

Work as One Team Globally

A&M offers integrated full-service solutions spanning various industries and functional areas, aiming to help clients to address complex challenges, seize opportunities and achieve their goals.

Result-driven Problem Solver

A&M focuses on achieving desired outcomes for its clients and uses a structured approach to identify, analyze, and implement solutions to problems, prioritizing effectiveness and measurable results.

Corporate Tax

In an increasingly rapidly changing global economy, businesses are required to evaluate tax considerations as a core component of strategic planning. The continuous evolution of domestic tax policies, international tax frameworks, and regulatory reforms presents significant challenges for organizations seeking to make informed decisions. As companies expand operations, enter new markets, or undertake complex transactions, the need for a forward-looking tax advisory has become more critical than ever. As a result, there is a greater emphasis to develop and execute a corporate tax strategy that contributes to the strategic objectives of the business.

Our corporate tax team helps the clients to develop effective strategies for their tax functions, provide them tax expert guidance to help them navigate the complexities of corporate taxation, and ensure that they are tax compliant. At A&M, we combine in-depth knowledge of corporate taxation issues with deep industry experience. We bring a global mindset to help clients achieve tax-effective outcomes and long-term value.

We Provide the Following Corporate Tax Offerings:

  • Corporate tax advisory
  • Corporate tax compliance and reporting

Learn More About Corporate Tax

Meet Our Practice Leaders

    • James Badenach

    • Head of Tax, Asia Pacific
    • Hong Kong
    learn more
    • Abhijit Ghosh

    • MD and Head of Tax, Southeast Asia
    • Singapore
    learn more
    • Yvette Chan

    • Managing Director
    • Hong Kong
    learn more
    • Mriganko Mukherjee

    • Managing Director
    • Singapore
    learn more
    • Vishal Hakani

    • Managing Director
    • India
    learn more
    • Anthony Loh

    • Managing Director
    • Thailand
    learn more
    • Jaap Zwaan

    • Managing Director
    • Indonesia
    learn more
    • Marcie Qian

    • Senior Director
    • China
    learn more
    • Anh Ngoc

    • Senior Director
    • Vietnam
    learn more

Indirect Tax

In an environment where “cash is king”, taxpayers across APAC are looking to drive working capital using indirect taxes. The current indirect tax landscape in APAC is characterized by frequently changing regulations, challenging geopolitical factors, and regulatory complexities.

Strategic planning and expertise can ensure businesses can identify indirect tax saving opportunities while remaining compliant, avoiding time-consuming and costly engagement with local tax authorities. Our indirect tax team at A&M provides strategic guidance on managing indirect tax requirements, enhancing indirect tax efficiency, and supporting business growth.

We Provide the Following Indirect Tax Offerings:

  • Audit and investigation
  • VAT cash impact analysis
  • Governance and risk management
  • APAC regional indirect tax advisory
  • Indirect tax supply chain integration
  • Indirect tax incentives and initiatives

Learn More About Indirect Tax

Meet Our Practice Leaders

    • Nu To Van

    • Managing Director
    • Thailand
    learn more
    • Andy Winthrop

    • Senior Director
    • Hong Kong
    learn more
    • Neha Mahindru

    • Senior Director
    • Singapore
    learn more
    • Anthony Fitzgerald

    • Managing Director
    • Australia
    learn more

International Tax

In an increasingly globalized economy, characterized by complex international regulations, evolving tax policies, and heightened enforcement by tax authorities, staying abreast of the business implications is key. Therefore, companies with a footprint stretching across multiple borders require a comprehensive international tax strategy to address the aforesaid challenges.

Our International Tax team assists clients with managing local and foreign taxes efficiently, and effectively. We advise clients on international tax matters arising from business operations and transactions, repatriation, and foreign tax credit planning to optimize their tax positions, ensure compliance, and manage potential risks effectively. Our expertise helps companies manage the complexities of multiple tax systems and supranational regulation around the world.

We offer tax advisory services to mid-market, larger corporate, global, and local clients in major metropolitan markets across APAC, ensuring no audit-based conflicts of interest.

We Provide the Following International Tax Offerings:

  • Tax planning and strategy
  • International tax compliance and reporting
  • International M&A
  • Operating model design and optimization

Learn More About International Tax

Meet Our Practice Leaders

    • James Badenach

    • Head of Tax, Asia Pacific
    • Hong Kong
    learn more
    • Abhijit Ghosh

    • MD and Head of Tax, Southeast Asia
    • Singapore
    learn more
    • Gagan Malik

    • Managing Director
    • U.S. (APAC Desk)
    learn more
    • Mriganko Mukherjee

    • Managing Director
    • Singapore
    learn more
    • Rohit Narula

    • Managing Director
    • Hong Kong
    learn more
    • Louisa Yeo

    • Managing Director
    • Singapore
    learn more
    • Jayde Thompson

    • Managing Director
    • Australia
    learn more
    • Jaap Zwaan

    • Managing Director
    • Indonesia
    learn more
    • Adam Williams

    • Managing Director
    • Hong Kong
    learn more

Private Client Services

Many clients are facing complex challenges in terms of how they create wealth and allocate their capital. After a lifetime of having the family’s wealth almost entirely bound up in their business, business families are recognizing that they need to de-risk and diversify their wealth in today’s more volatile and unpredictable environment.

Thoughtfully structuring and managing our client’s tax affairs is more important than ever. Working with an advisor who understands the complex range of tax matters impacting the client’s business operations and personal agenda is of paramount importance.

A&M Private Client Services team brings together tax and business advisors across the globe who share a passion for supporting the client’s unique ambitions and needs. Whether you are a private business leader, business-owning family, or private capital investor, together we can create, preserve, and transition long-term value across generations.

We Provide the Following Private Client Services Offerings:

  • Family office services
  • Tax advisory planning and compliance
  • Trust and estate planning
  • International tax planning and compliance
  • Succession planning

Learn More About Private Client Services

Meet Our Practice Leaders

    • Yvette Chan

    • Managing Director
    • Hong Kong
    learn more
    • Louisa Yeo

    • Managing Director
    • Singapore
    learn more
    • James Head

    • Managing Director
    • Sydney, AU
    learn more

Tax Transformation and Technology

In today’s fast-evolving tax landscape, businesses need more than compliance- they need innovation. Our Tax Transformation and Technology team helps organizations reimagine their tax functions, integrating advanced technology to drive efficiency, accuracy, and strategic insight.

We specialize in end-to-end transformation, automating workflows, optimizing data management, and leveraging analytics to enhance decision-making. Whether it’s streamlining corporate income tax compliance, improving indirect tax reporting, or modernizing transfer pricing processes, we tailor solutions that fit the unique needs of each client.

Our expertise spans all tax domains and all industry sectors. From multinational corporations to fast-growing enterprises, we work across industries to develop scalable, future-proof tax functions that meet regulatory demands while unlocking new opportunities for value creation.

By combining deep technical tax knowledge with cutting-edge technology, we don’t just solve tax challenges—we turn tax into a strategic advantage. Let’s shape the future of your tax function together.

We Provide the Following Tax Transformation and Technology Offerings:

  • Governance
  • Tax technology services
  • Tax technology advisory

Learn More About Tax Transformation and Technology

Meet Our Practice Leaders

    • Sylvain Vivion

    • Senior Director
    • Singapore
    learn more
    • Neha Mahindru

    • Senior Director
    • Singapore
    learn more
    • Dalvir Sohanpal

    • Senior Director
    • Hong Kong
    learn more

Transfer Pricing

Transfer Pricing goes beyond compliance. Transfer Pricing is a strategic enabler aligning tax, operations, strategy and governance. In today’s environment of evolving tax rules and global supply chain realignment, we help businesses design, implement, and sustain transfer pricing models that are practical, defensible, and support long-term value creation.

We Provide the Following Transfer Pricing Offerings:

  • Transfer Pricing Planning & Policy Design
    • Transfer Pricing policies aligned with business objectives
    • Structure intercompany transactions (goods, services, intangibles, financing)
    • Profit allocation methodologies (TNMM, CUP, profit split, etc.)
  • Transfer Pricing Implementation and Governance
    • Operational transfer pricing setup and automation
    • Benchmarking for all types of intercompany transactions
    • Integration of Transfer Pricing processes into systems and business decision-making
    • Transfer Pricing health-check
  • Compliance and Reporting
    • Preparation of Local File, Master File, Country-by-Country Reporting
    • Country-specific Transfer Pricing documentation (Singapore, ASEAN, OECD-aligned)
    • Regulatory compliance gap assessments
  • Financial Services Transfer Pricing
    • Transfer Pricing for banking, insurance, asset management, and funds (family offices)
    • Pricing of intra-group financing transactions (intragroup loans, cash pooling, treasury, derivative pricing)
  • Dispute and Controversy support
    • Audit defence and controversy management
    • Mutual Agreement Procedures
    • Risk assessments and negotiations with tax authorities
  • Advanced Pricing Agreements
    • Unilateral Advanced Pricing Agreements
    • Bilateral Advanced Pricing Agreements
    • Multilateral Advanced Pricing Agreements
  • Operational Transfer Pricing
    • Implementation of Transfer Pricing policies into ERP and financial systems
    • Ongoing monitoring of intercompany margins
    • Year-end adjustments and true-up processes
    • Internal controls and governance frameworks

Learn More About Transfer Pricing

Meet Our Practice Leaders

    • Adnan Begic

    • Managing Director
    • Singapore
    learn more
    • Stuart Simons

    • Managing Director
    • Thailand
    learn more
    • Anthony Loh

    • Managing Director
    • Thailand
    learn more
    • Amod Khare

    • Managing Director
    • India
    learn more

Transaction Tax

The overall economic environment around M&A activity is dynamic and ever-changing. M&A transactions have grown larger and much more complex. Understanding and analyzing the diverse tax implications associated with M&A transactions can be very challenging for businesses.

A&M’s APAC Transaction Tax team provides services on the buy or sell side with respect to the taxation implications of M&A. The team, which is based in key markets across the region, can help you to plan for a divestment well in advance of exit to help facilitate a smooth process. For the transaction itself we can perform tax structuring, tax due diligence (buy or sell side), and model and transaction document review.

We Provide the Following Transaction Tax Offerings:

  • Tax due diligence
  • Investment tax structure planning
  • Post-deal integration
  • Exit planning

Learn More About Transaction Tax

Meet Our Practice Leaders

    • Mark Bennett

    • Managing Director
    • Singapore
    learn more
    • Darryl Kinneally

    • Managing Director
    • Singapore
    learn more
    • Felix Lee

    • Managing Director
    • China
    learn more
    • Yvette Chan

    • Managing Director
    • Hong Kong
    learn more
    • Vishal Hakani

    • Managing Director
    • India
    learn more
    • Korneeka Koonachoak

    • Managing Director
    • Thailand
    learn more
    • Jaap Zwaan

    • Managing Director
    • Indonesia
    learn more

Tax Accounting Services

We Provide the Following Tax Accounting Services Offerings:

A&M’s Tax Accounting Services (TAS) practice provides global income tax accounting solutions under both U.S. (GAAP – ASC 740) and International (IFRS – IAS 12) standards. Our team of seasoned professionals is adept at navigating the complexities of tax provisions, ensuring we identify each company’s key challenges, potential tax planning opportunities, process optimization possibilities, and tax accounting technology needs. To enhance efficiency, A&M combines tax provision software with proprietary tools, streamlining processes and improving service delivery within tighter timeframes. Whether a VC funded pre-IPO company in need of foundational tax provision support or a large enterprise requiring sophisticated tax strategies, we have the expertise and tailored solutions to meet each company’s needs throughout their life cycle.

  • Tax accounting transactional advisory
  • Tax accounting advisory
  • Tax provision reporting services
  • Other services

Learn More About Tax Accounting Services

Meet Our Practice Leaders

Customer Tax Services

In today’s complex and evolving regulatory environment, we provide support to meet your tax compliance and reporting needs:

We Provide the Following Customer Tax Services Offerings:

  • Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)
  • Common Reporting Standard (CRS)
  • Qualified Intermediary (QI) Program
  • Other operational taxes (i.e., stamp duty) 

Meet Our Practice Leaders

    • Rohit Narula

    • Managing Director
    • Hong Kong
    learn more
    • Aaron Lam

    • Managing Director
    • Hong Kong
    learn more

Pillar Two Advisory Services

Navigating the complexities of Pillar Two requires a comprehensive and coordinated approach. Our tailored Pillar Two Advisory Services are designed to simplify your reporting and compliance obligations by integrating expertise across technical accounting, international tax, transfer pricing, technology, and local tax regulations, into one cohesive service. Whether you are managing Pillar Two in the context of a transaction or as part of your ongoing compliance cycle, we can work seamlessly with your Finance, Tax, and IT teams to operationalize Pillar Two and help transform how you manage Pillar Two compliance. ​

We Provide the Following Pillar Two Advisory Services Offerings:

  • Financial Accuracy and Transparency
  • Compliance, Execution, and Governance
  • M&A and Group Structuring
  • Technology-Enabled Solutions
  • Strategic Decision-Making
  • Data Governance and CbCR Integration

Learn More About Pillar Two Advisory Services

Meet Our Practice Leaders

    • Matt Andrew

    • Managing Director
    • Hong Kong
    learn more
    • Bruno Aniceto da Silva

    • Senior Advisor
    • Hong Kong
    learn more
    • Tom Lobb

    • Managing Director
    • U.K.
    learn more
    • Jayde Thompson

    • Managing Director
    • Australia
    learn more
    • Elizabeth Arrendale

    • Managing Director
    • U.S.
    learn more
    • Hang Vo

    • Senior Director
    • Australia
    learn more
    • Carina Ngai

    • Senior Director
    • Hong Kong
    learn more
    • Ed Raza

    • Senior Director
    • Hong Kong
    learn more

Fund Formation and Fund Reporting

At every stage of its lifecycle funds must navigate and comply with a complex web of tax laws, rules, and regulations that differ across countries and regions, affecting both fund formation and fund reporting. This shift from a historically country-specific focus to a global or multi-jurisdictional approach underscores the evolving nature of the global tax reporting landscape.

Our Wealth and Asset Management Tax team possesses the expertise and experience necessary to grasp the practical aspects across the entire investment value chain. We understand the increasing demands from regulators, investors, and stakeholders, and the challenges of balancing compliance/reporting needs while achieving the optimal balance of tax and practical considerations. We provide a comprehensive suite of services to support you throughout your fund’s life cycle, from fund formation, capital raising, and structuring, to closure and distributions to investors.

We Provide the Following Fund Formation and Fund Reporting Offerings:

  • Fund formation support
  • Advice on tax issues relating to the fund manager vertical
  • Advice on capital structure
  • Fund transactions support
  • Tax incentive planning and applications
  • Support with TP planning and documentation
  • Advice on fund governance protocols
  • End-to-end technology driven tax compliance, reporting, and dispute resolution services
  • FATCA and CRS support 

Learn More About Fund Formation and Fund Reporting

Meet Our Practice Leaders

    • Adam Williams

    • Managing Director
    • Hong Kong
    learn more
    • Mriganko Mukherjee

    • Managing Director
    • Singapore
    learn more
    • Vishal Hakani

    • Managing Director
    • India
    learn more
    • Aaron Lam

    • Managing Director
    • Hong Kong
    learn more

Global Trade

In an environment where “cash is king”, taxpayers across APAC are looking to drive working capital using global trade. The current global trade landscape in APAC is characterized by frequently changing regulations, challenging geopolitical factors, and regulatory complexities.

Leveraging regional trade experts is the key to identification of opportunities that are key to thriving in APAC’s competitive market. Our global trade team at A&M provides strategic guidance to assist businesses in navigating the complex landscape of international trade regulations and support business growth. We help businesses streamline trade operations through technology and strategic planning, ensuring efficient global trade activities that drive cost saving within a business.

We Provide the Following Global Trade Offerings:

  • Audit and investigation
  • Authorized economic operator
  • Special customs regimes
  • Trade processes and controls
  • Cost savings via duty/tariff reductions
  • Capital project savings
  • Customs valuation
  • Tariff classification of products
  • Outsourced trade management

Learn More About Global Trade

Meet Our Practice Leaders

    • Nu To Van

    • Managing Director
    • Thailand
    learn more
    • Andy Winthrop

    • Senior Director
    • Hong Kong
    learn more

Connect With Us



This form is for business-related inquires only. If you are seeking to exercise rights related to your personal data (e.g., access, deletion), please submit your request to our Privacy Office either by using our DSAR Submission Form.

Alvarez & Marsal is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy, and we'll only use your personal information to administer your account and to provide the products and services you requested from us.

Acknowledge Privacy:

I acknowledge that A&M will process my personal information in accordance with its Privacy Notice.