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Richard Bao has over 15 years’ experience in supply chain/value planning, international tax and transfer pricing, as well as customs.

Richard has structure planning and dispute resolution as his main focus areas, including but not limited to: Planning the global holding structure, financing structure, value chain, transactional and transfer pricing model for China outbound investment initiatives; Structuring the China supply chain, value chain and transfer pricing mechanism for MNCs; Advising special-purpose structures such as for VIE and IPO; Supporting tax and customs valuation disputes under intercompany dealings;
Assisting in Mutual Agreement Procedure.

Richard is co-author of Theories and Practical Guide of China Transfer Pricing and regular author of various technical alerts/commentaries on China tax topics for BNA and ITR. Visiting Professor of China tax curriculum for the EMBA course of SHUFF. He holds a Certified Tax Agent (CTA) certificate in China.

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Ray is Senior Tax Manager at Grant Thornton's Shanghai office. He has been specializing in providing tax services to both multinational and domestic corporations for over 9 years.

Ray works closely with numerous MNC and domestic clients. His experience includes providing tax compliance, tax planning, and tax and business advisory services in such aspects as PRC tax compliance, controversy, and advisory, including M&A structuring, business supply chain analysis, etc.

In addition, Ray has supported many corporate and PE clients in relation to tax due diligence and health checks projects covering industries including IT, heavy industry, automobile and general manufacturing.

Ray obtained his Master's of Finance and Accounting Degree from the University of Queensland, Australia.

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Joshua Liu has abundant experience in value chain and supply chain planning service. Throughout his professional career at Grant Thornton, the more than 150 clients Joshua has served occupy consulting, education, cross-border e-commerce, automobile, engineering, resource and energy, trade, finance and investment, real estate and internet industries. Joshua is a graduate of Fudan University.