About Dezan Shira & Associates

Dezan Shira & Associates is a pan-Asia, multi-disciplinary professional services firm, clients with corporate, professional, and technology services essential for navigating Asia’s complex regulatory environments. We assist multinationals with all aspects of establishing, maintaining, and growing their business in Asia's complex regulatory environment.

Founded in 1992, the firm is in its fourth decade of operation, and has grown to include dozens of technical practices with more than 600 professionals in 40 offices located across 15 countries throughout Asia.

We support clients from our 27 offices strategically located throughout China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Dubai, as well as from our 14 Asian Alliance partner offices in Australia, Bangladesh, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, and South Korea. Together, we make up one of Asia’s largest integrated providers of corporate services with more than 40 offices and 600 professionals.

We also serve our corporate clients and partners beyond Asia, via liaison offices in Germany, Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom - staffed by personnel with extensive Asia experience. Furthermore, as members of leading accounting, tax, and legal professional networks, we offer one-stop services in 155 countries worldwide.

Our Services

Our services are tailored to help executives and decisionmakers manage the legal, financial, and technological hurdles that international firms face with market entry and operations in Asia's unique markets and jurisdictions.

Our unique, cross-disciplinary advisory model provides clients with deeper insights and expedited knowledge, enabling them to adeptly seize opportunities and navigate change. This advantage empowers them to confidently pursue their goals and secure a competitive edge in Asia.

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Our Global Reach

We are a Pan-Asia practice with fully-integrated corporate offices working both locally and with one another to provide multi-jurisdictional advice and planning for businesses operating across Asia.

We support clients’ operations in Asia from our 27 offices, strategically located throughout China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as from our 14 Dezan Shira Asian Alliance™ offices throughout Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Türkiye. Together, we are one of Asia’s largest integrated providers of corporate services with more than 40 offices and 600 professionals.

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Our Clients and Sector Expertise

The corporate clients that we serve operate across dozens of industries and originate from more than one hundred countries around the world. Nearly 70% of our customers maintain global headquarters in Europe or the Americas, while Asia-invested firms make up our fastest growing customer segment.

Our practices cater to start ups, mid-cap companies, family firms, listed corporations, and larger multinationals. We work as comfortably with entrepreneurs and owners as with executives and department managers. Our diversified clientele allows us to strengthen the knowledge base that we continue to use in assisting our clients do business across Asia.

The expertise that our professionals apply stems from supporting clients in the region for more than 30 years. Our versatile depth of knowledge and strong practice familiarity helps us better serve our clients’ present and future needs within Asia’s developing markets

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Our Brands and Resources

  • To support companies’ investments and operations in Asia, we provide core expert advisory and corporate services through Dezan Shira & Associates, as well as regional thought leadership and business knowledge and market intelligence, and specialized applications and services through our brands and subsidiaries.

  • Our Brands

    We take pride in our family of brands, through which we offer specialized solutions and knowledge that empowers businesses as they journey towards strategic growth and operational excellence across the diverse landscapes of Asia's business environment.

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  • Asiapedia

    The firm sustains an exhaustive business library. Asiapedia is a collection of resources based on what we have learned on-the-ground about doing business in Asia. It’s the product of more than 600 team members collaborating across offices in Asia, Europe, and North America.

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  • Asia Briefing

    Established in 1999 as a subsidiary of Dezan Shira & Associates, Asia Briefing publishes articles, publications, and doing business guides that provide companies and individuals with the latest regional business and regulatory news, expert commentary, and guidance about conducting business throughout Asia’s emerging markets. Authored by the firm’s in-house experts and editors, Asia Briefing covers more than a dozen countries in Asia through its six regional brands.

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Our Asia and Global Alliances

  • ETL Group

    Dezan Shira & Associates is a member of ETL Group. ETL is Europe's largest tax and legal consultancy group and maintains a network of 870 firms in over 50 countries to provide unique range of consulting services to European businesses looking to expand.

  • Leading Edge Alliance

    Dezan Shira & Associates is a member of the Leading Edge Alliance, the world’s second largest global network of 226 accounting practices including 620 offices in 110 countries. Dezan Shira & Associates won the Alliance´s "Most Innovative Practice" – its highest award – and the "Recognition of Excellence" award in 2013, the prestigious “Edge Award” in 2014, as well as the “Outstanding Marketing Award” in 2016.

  • IR Global

    Dezan Shira & Associates is a member of IR Global, a network of legal and tax firms across 155 countries and jurisdictions. The network and its members specialize in legal, accountancy and financial advisory services, connecting clients and providing strategic global development.

  • Dezan Shira Asian Alliance

    Dezan Shira & Associates leads an alliance of highly capable firms in Asia to better support our clients’ activities throughout the region. Through this alliance, we assist with practice development and provide joint client services in smaller emerging nations across Asia.

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Trusted by Global Businesses

Our clients are headquartered in more than 100 countries worldwide - including Europe, the Americas, and Asia, ranging in size from start-ups, to mid-cap and large enterprises. Here is what our clients have to share about us:

Dezan Shira has played a crucial role in helping our China expansion from a RO to a full-fledged trading entity - through careful planning, in-person meetings, and qualitative strategic advice. The setup ... is particularly complex in China, but we were led through the legal and tax intricacies, regulations, and obligations towards local authorities smoothly. We were delighted to close the circle by inaugurating our China office with Dezan Shira’s help.
Ping has offices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Thailand. We’ve been a client of Dezan Shira’s for 25 years, from setting up companies, to back-office services. Although many “big 8” firms think they specialize in Asia, ... Dezan Shira is the only firm that I know of with the breadth, depth, and expertise across the region. My compliments to the team for our 25 years of positive experience; I rely on, recommend, and trust you even more.
Dezan Shira & Associates’ excellent integrated corporate service solutions and strategic advice, have played a crucial role for us in implementing our Singapore expansion plans.
Dezan Shira assists Organica Water with our corporate secretarial services, financial and tax advice in Asia. Their availability and high-level professional services have led to a valuable long-term relationship, re sulting in global cooperation.
Our company had already been operating in Asia for years. However, Dezan Shira’s Business Intelligence team provided us with a country benchmarking study, that led us to make key decisions with our supply chain th...at has since increased our company's competitiveness.
From the complex Shanghai entity setup to tax advisory across several Asian jurisdictions, Dezan Shira & Associates provided us with value-added services that have allowed us to quickly grow and steady our business in the region.