Zhou Yi is Deloitte’s Northern China Indirect Tax Service Leader. He used to work in Deloitte’s Shanghai and Guangzhou office, and is now based in Beijing. He is recognized as a leading indirect tax service expert in International Tax Review’s Indirect Tax Leader’s Guide 2013/2014.
He is a PRC Certified Public Accountant and also a PRC Certified Tax Agent.

He has extensive experience in advising MNCs and domestic companies on indirect tax issues, such as VAT reform, VAT compliance, VAT and duty optimization, export VAT refund, customs duty, etc. He also has wide experience and expertise in the transfer pricing area.
He has advised and assisted many companies with restructuring their operations and supply chain arrangement to achieve efficiency in logistics and optimize management of their VAT/consumption tax matters.
He has also helped many companies establish and develop internal control systems to ensure both efficiency and compliance. He is experienced in coordinating and negotiating with tax/customs authorities, helping clients deal with challenges, and managing/mitigating the associated risks for companies.
Zhou Yi is a member of the PRC Bar. Prior to joining Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, he worked in a law firm providing legal consultancy services related to international trade and investment to MNCs and domestic companies.

Eric Hirsch is the head of Jones Lang LaSalle’s Commercial business in Beijing. He is responsible for developing strategy, business priorities and driving international best practices for the Firm and is a member of the Regional Tenant Representation Board. Based in Beijing since 2004, Eric was instrumental in building up the Firm’s local tenant representation team prior to assuming his current role as the head of Commercial.

Eric holds a BA in History from the Pennsylvania State University. He has also won industry and internal company awards, including:
• Extraordinary Business Result of team (Multiple wins)
• Extraordinary Business Result of Individual (Multiple wins)

Eric Hirsch is the Chairman of the Real Estate Forum at the American Chamber of Commerce in China (Beijing) and on the Board of Directors of the Surmang Foundation. He is also licensed in New York.

Wendy has more than 20 years Chinese tax and international tax experiences and is mainly assisting foreign and Chinese multinational companies on structuring the investment into and out of China, M&A, and other Chinese taxes related matters. She helped many clients to restructure their global operations, supply chain, and financing structures to achieve the tax efficiency. Her industrial experiences and expertise include pharmaceutical and healthcare, retail, high-tech, general manufacturing and industry products etc. She is the lead tax partner in charge of the Pharmaceutical and healthcare, Retail and consumer products, Industry Products and Others for North China Market.

Prior to joint PWC China in July 2006, Wendy was a tax Partner/Principal in another Big Four international accounting firms between 1998 and 2006 both in United States and China. She worked on numerous cross border transactions including procurement, manufacturing, financing, cross border supply chain issues and transfer pricing. She assisted many multinational companies in developing tax strategies for their operations in China and was also a member of that firm’s global Supply Chain team.

Between 1988 –1996, Wendy was a Principal Supervising Agent, State Administration of Taxation, People’s Republic of China and was mainly responsible for making tax policies related to foreign investment and foreign expatriates working in China. She participated as part of the negotiating team in income tax treaty negotiations with various countries, drafted the transfer pricing regulations, and Income Tax Regulations for the Income Tax Law for Foreign Invested Enterprises that has been effective since 1991.