Karen Lau Director, Tax Advisory Services
Qualifications
- BA (HONS) Accountancy - First Class Honor
- Associate of Hong Kong Certified Public Accountants
Background
Karen has joined Forvis Mazars Hong Kong since 2016. She has more than 10 years of progressive in accounting, tax compliance and consultancy for local and multinational clients.
Before joining Forvis Mazars, Karen was a Tax Manager in a Big-4 firm. She specializes in Hong Kong, China and cross-border tax and business services.
Karen is an all-round tax manager with experience in providing tax services to MNCs, state-owned enterprises and listed companies. Services includes group tax review, tax health check, corporate restructuring, pre-IPO advisory, tax & regulatory compliance from both Hong Kong and China perspectives.
Karen has rich experience in IPO projects to serve for clients engaging in a variety of business including electronic technology, construction, manufacturing and fashion design etc.
Karen is also a key member of the transfer pricing team of Forvis Mazars Hong Kong, with experience in providing transfer pricing planning, risk assessment, transfer pricing analysis (for listing purpose) and documentation.
Her clients involve in a wide range of industries including telecommunication, transportation, general trading and manufacturing in Asia region such as China, Indonesia, India and Japan.
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- Mazars webinar: Transfer Pricing - How can MNEs mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on their Transfer Pricing reviews? (21 Sep 2021)
- Mazars in Hong Kong tax webinar series: Navigating the maze of cross border China transaction (2 & 16 Mar 2022)
- MZHK x TIHK webinar: Navigating the maze of cross border China transaction (12 May 2022)
- Mazars in Hong Kong sponsors the HKIoD Directors' Conference 2022 (21 Sep 2022)
- 2023 Praxity Global Tax Conference (4-6 June 2023)
- Inauguration of GBA Family Office Association (05 October 2023)
- GBA Family Office Association Xian Branch Workshop (25-26 November 2023)
- Legal Club meeting of French Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (22 Oct 2019)
- April 2022 - Latest development of APA in China Part I - Simplified procedures of unilateral APA
- May 2022 - Latest development of APA in China Part II - 2020 APA Annual Report and MAP Review Report
- May 2022 - Latest development of APA in China Part II - 2020 APA Annual Report and MAP Review Report
- Webinar: Transfer pricing trends in Asia webinar (15 September 2022)
- Karen Lau and Anthony Tam contributed an article to Asia-Pacific Journal of Taxation Vol. 26 No.1 (August 2022)
- Hong Kong Budget 2023-24
- Hong Kong Budget 2024-25
- Webinar: Tax and legal considerations of M&A in APAC 2023 (24 May 2023)
- Hybrid seminar: PRC and HK tax considerations in M&A (19 June 2023)
- Transfer Pricing in APAC in 2023 webinar (22 November 2023)
- October 2023 - The Inland Revenue Bill for expanding the FSIE regime to cover asset disposal gains is published
- October 2023 - Stamp Duty Changes in the Policy Address 2023
- October 2023 - Bill for Tax Certainty for Onshore Disposal Gain of Equity Interests
- Tax Seminar: Tax considerations for outbound investments to Singapore and HK
- Internal Sharing Session in CTBC Bank Hong Kong Branch (5 December 2023)
- Mazars in Hong Kong coordinated with Bartošík Sváby and advised on transcontinental M&A Automotive Deal
- Karen Lau moderated the webinar “MyCareer as a Young Technology Professional" (27 October 2023)
- Karen Lau delivered workshop of the International Tax Course introduced by HKICPA (Oct 2022)