Ms Adeline Wong > Wong & Partners > Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia > Lawyer Profile

Ms Adeline Wong

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Work Department

Tax

Position

Principal

Career

Adeline Wong heads the Tax, Trade and Wealth Management Practice Group of Wong & Partners and chairs the Asia Pacific Tax Practice Group of Baker McKenzie. She has over 30 years of experience in the area of corporate tax planning, advisory, audit and investigation work.

Adeline has extensive experience in tax planning and tax advisory for local, regional and cross-border corporate exercises. These include joint ventures, new operations, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and downsizing, among others. She has advised on matters relating to tax disputes and controversies, transfer pricing, tax credit, franking credit, reinvoicing, royalties, dividends, double tax treaties, withholding tax, tariff and customs, tax incentives, as well as matters relating to foreign trade and the WTO.

Adeline advises a broad range of clients, which include investment banks, other financial institutions and high net worth families, on tax, trust, and estate planning issues, with a focus on using onshore and offshore trust structures and other vehicles to help clients hold and transfer wealth. She also advises financial institutions that provide services to high net worth individuals on securities as well as corporate and regulatory issues in relation to their operations in Malaysia.

She has presented in both domestic and international tax conferences, including conferences organised by the Tax Executive Institute in the US, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners in Singapore and Bloomberg BNA’s Global Transfer Pricing Conference in Shanghai. She is also a regular contributor to established publications on tax-related legislation and developments in Malaysia, such as Bloomberg BNA and the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation.

Languages

English, Malay