Stephen Weatherseed Senior Director, Financial Advisory
Qualification
- BA Hons in Economics and Law from Durham University, UK
- The Financial Reporting Council Honorary Adviser
- Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
- Fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Practising)
- Council member of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors
Background
Stephen joined Forvis Mazars in January 2011. His role within the firm includes international audit clients, both as contact and/or engagement partner, and special projects in relation to corporate finance and litigation support. He also focuses on practice development for the firm with a view to increasing Forvis Mazars' brand awareness within Hong Kong.
Stephen has spent over 30 years in professional financial services, more than half of which have been based in Hong Kong and Asia, and the remainder in the UK and Europe. His experience includes practice management; developing new service lines; establishing and appointing representative firms in new countries; advising clients on corporate finance, audit, risk management and cross-border transactions, and also on China/Asian investment/trading strategies. He has a recognised track record of building and managing businesses, establishing a profile, advising complex, multi-national clients; developing new business; executing transaction services and acting as the financial expert.
In terms of foreign languages, Stephen has varying levels of fluency/knowledge of French, Russian and Mandarin.
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Pages associated to Stephen Weatherseed
Services
- Global German services country directory
- Doing business in Hong Kong
- How do we work?
- What challenges are you facing?
- Legal
- Doing M&A in Asia Pacific: Tax traps and structuring opportunities
- Litigation & arbitration
- Dispute resolution
- Legal compliance
- International desks
- French desk
- Global German services
Insights
- Stephen Weatherseed quoted in A+ magazine
- Stephen Weatherseed interview by AB.CN magazine
- "Little Britain’s Big Gamble" - A+ Magazine (Aug 2016)
- Mazars 2017 Regional AOS Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand (12-13 June)
- Stephen Weatherseed at License Agreement Signing Ceremony in Wuhan
- Doing business in Hong Kong 2019
- Mazars Employee Sports Day 2017
- Reinventing the wheel: what’s driving change in mobility
- Mazars joins the Arianee project consortium
- Reinventing the wheel: mobility as a service
- Reinventing the wheel: Mobility in a sustainable, post-Covid world
- Webinar: Making the best Workspace decision for your business (12 Oct 2021)
- CARL Partners Conference 2022
- Mazars in Hong Kong sponsors the HKIoD Directors' Conference 2022 (21 Sep 2022)
- Partners from Mazars in Luxembourg visit Mazars in Hong Kong (24 May 2023)
- ICAEW Hong Kong Gala Dinner (26 October 2023)
- Doing business in Hong Kong 2016
- Guide to doing business in Asia Pacific 2016-2017
- Doing business in Hong Kong 2017
- “Hiring For The Future” - A Plus Magazine (May 2017)
- Venturing Abroad
- The Future of Financial Services: Transforming an industry
- Stephen Weatherseed being re-elected as the Chairman of the HKGCC Europe Committee
- "The Road Ahead" – The Peak magazine (August issue)
- Global Ecommerce Report 2017
- Mazars 2017 Luxury Study
- Article #1 : The marriage of high tech and high finance
- Article #2: Regulatory reform in uncertain times - No rest for the weary
- HKFRS/IFRS9 Implementation: Challenges for financial institutions
- Article #3: Embracing A Pattern of Change - Business Model Innovation across Banking, Insurance and Asset Management
- Doing Business in Hong Kong 2018
- Guide to doing business in Asia Pacific 2017-2018
- Mazars CSR Day with the HKS and underprivileged children
- Stephen Weatherseed interviewed by the Chinese Magazine "Pursuits"
- Mazars CPA Limited's Chinese Name Change
- Stephen Weatherseed and Edmund Chan interviewed by the local Chinese Newspaper "Ming Pao"
- #MOVE2021: Mazars Town Hall 2018
- Mazars Hong Kong Sponsors the HKIoD Directors' Symposium 2018
- Mazars Hong Kong Hosts Cocktail Reception to Celebrate its Chinese Name Change
- Mazars Hong Kong sponsored the International Women's day conference
- Hon Jeffrey LAM Kin-fung, GBS, JP gives his insight on the Greater Bay Area
- Briefing in the Consulate General of Hungary in HK
- Congratulations to Stephen Weatherseed elected as a Council Member of HKIoD
- APAC 1st Regional Audit meeting in Bangkok
- Tanner De Witt 20th Anniversary cocktail reception
- The 23rd CIFIT in Xiamen
- 2019 Mazars in Hong Kong Partner/Manager offsite meeting (11 Oct 2019)
- The 6th edition of the Aspire Kick-off Mentoring program
- Praxity Alliance 2019 Global Conference
- German Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong Annual General Meeting 2019
- HKIoD Annual Dinner cum Presentation of Directors Of The Year Awards 2019
- Doing business in Hong Kong 2020
- Stephen Weatherseed interviewed by Hong Kong Business magazine (4 March 2020)
- Stephen Weatherseed featured in Hong Kong Business magazine (April 2020)
- Mazars in Hong Kong sponsors the HKIoD Director’s Conference 2020
- Petrol tanks to data banks: the transformation of the automotive industry
- Learning to carshare: the impact for drivers and manufacturers
- Where mobility goes next: lessons from ride pooling
- Stephen Weatherseed as speaker at the ICAEW mentoring session for young members (3 December 2020)
- Bundling in the city: integrating urban transport services
- Experimentation and imagination: designing the blueprints for future cities
- Doing M&A in CEE: Tax traps and structuring opportunities
- Doing business in Hong Kong 2021
- Stephen Weatherseed appointed as an Honorary Advisor to the Financial Reporting Council (15 April 2021)
- Doing business in Hong Kong 2022