Dezan Shira & Associates is a pan-Asia, multi-disciplinary professional services firm, providing legal, tax and operational advisory to international corporate investors. Operational throughout China, ASEAN and India, our mission is to guide foreign companies through Asia’s complex regulatory environment and assist them with all aspects of establishing, maintaining and growing their business operations in the region. With more than 23 years of on-the-ground experience and a large team of lawyers, tax experts and auditors, in addition to researchers and business analysts, we are your partner for growth in Asia. Dezan Shira has been assisting Australian SMEs invest, operate and expand in China since 1992. It is now in its third decade of operations and has subsequently grown to support 28 offices and over 300 staff in our operations throughout China, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, and Vietnam together with our alliance partners in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. For further information about Dezan Shira’s services and how it can support your business in China, please visit our website at www.dezshira.com. The firm also publishes significant and well received business intelligence about each of the markets and disciplines in which it operates in through its publishing subsidiary Asia Briefing Ltd., which includes technical publications and highly rated websites concerning business investment in Asia, ASEAN, China, India and Vietnam. The firm also sustains an exhaustive business library on its own website.