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Founder and Managing Partner of D’Andrea & Partners Legal Counsel, and Founder of DP Group.
Graduated in Law at the University of Teramo (Italy), he then subsequently obtained a Masters’ degree in Corporate Advisor at LUISS University in Rome and a Diploma in Chinese Studies at Nanjing Normal University and is a member of the Italian Bar Association.
Mr. D’Andrea arrived in China in 2005 and is fluent in Italian (mother tongue), English, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. He mainly deals with cross-border mergers and acquisitions, assistance in ODI/FDI and intellectual property rights.
He is also acting as National Vice President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.

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Mr. Montoya has been working with KPMG since 2000, when he joined from another first tier consulting firm. Before coming to China in 2005, he developed an specialization supporting cross-border M&A transactions between Europe, US and LatAm.

In 2005 Mr. Montoya joined KPMG’s Deal Advisory practice in China, and has since provided advisory services to a range of western multi-national firms investing in China and Hong Kong.

Mr. Montoya has been involved in some notorious transactions by Chinese multinationals, such as the acquisitions of Pirelli and Kraus Maffei by ChemChina, the acquisition of a 50% interest in Argentina’s largest gold mine by Shandong Gold, Spanish global leader in sport rights management and broadcasting, Imagina or recent acquisitions by Chinese firms of energy transmission and distribution assets in Peru and Chile, he is regarded as a reference in outbound M&A in industry in Northern China.

Mr. Montoya is the partner tasked with upholding KPMG’s support to the European and US multinational community in Northern China. In this role, he represents KPMG as a member of the Advisory Committee of the European Chamber in China.

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Liang started his R&D tax advisory career at KPMG in 2015. Before joining KPMG, he has extensive consulting experience in engineering and technological field, participating in many international projects. He also specialized in market, strategy and due diligence studies. Liang has taken on the role of R&D tax and Incentives practice leader in KPMG’s northern region since 2018, focusing on the management and development of the practice in the region.

Liang is a chartered professional engineer accredited by Engineer Australia. His extensive hands-on experience in R&D tax and government incentives, solid project management skills, efficient resourcing management capabilities have been highly rated by clients. Apart from providing professional advice on regulations and rules, Liang has proven track-records of assisting clients in planning and preparing for R&D tax and government incentives. Liang has been actively exploring and developing the optimisation of R&D and government incentive management framework for clients. He have various successful cases where he assisted the clients in establishing management processes and procedure manuals, and developing system design specification and implementation plans for transforming the processes to online platform. Liang has been leading engagement in various sectors including finance, TMT, energy and environment, airline, chemical and automobile, etc.

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Michelle currently leads the KPMG People Services practice in the Eastern and Central China region, and has over fifteen years of experience in providing individual income tax compliance and advisory services for multinational companies and individual clients.

Michelle is also experienced in serving high net-worth individual clients: including tax planning for immigration, tax residency analysis, tax advice in relation to global investments, tax planning for family business IPO and succession planning tax advice.

Over the years, Michelle has undertaken speaking engagements at events held by the American Chamber of Commerce, Australian Chamber of Commerce, Canada Business Council and EU Chamber of Commerce to update their members on the latest regulatory developments and trends in Chinese individual income tax.

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Jimmy has over thirteen years of professional and in-house experience in taxes and accounting functions. He has in-depth knowledge of managing global mobility programs for tax services, relocation, immigration and assignment cost estimates.

Jimmy brings value to the People Services team with his extensive experience in providing international taxes and human resources planning and advisory services to MNCs on cross-border assignments in areas of international assignment policy, program administration, equity compensation planning as well as best practices and benchmarking.
Jimmy also has extensive experience in handling employee equity plan, personal share transfer and tax audit cases. Over the years, he has undertaken speaking engagements at various activities.

Jimmy’s clients cover a wide spectrum of industries such as banking, pharmaceutical, automobile, luxury products and real estate.