Douglas Fone and Steven Carey launch new Transfer Pricing Firm – Quantera Global
A new specialist transfer pricing practice named Quantera Global launched last week, comprising a select group of senior transfer pricing partners formerly of the Transfer Pricing Associates group (TPA Global). Quantera Global will offer a truly specialist and integrated transfer pricing service to multinationals of all sizes, focusing principally on intra-Asia transactions as well as inbound and outbound transactions and investment flows between Europe and Asia and the Americas and Asia.
Quantera Global will service multinationals throughout Asia from strategically located bases in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Jakarta, Sydney and Brisbane, with additional offices to be established in the coming months. Quantera Global also has alliance partners in Europe and other regions of the world, including North, Central and South America and Africa. Quantera Global will operate as an alliance partner of the TPA Global network and so will continue to provide high quality services to clients of the TPA Global network in the Asian region.
Douglas Fone, Senior Partner of Quantera Global says that the firm has been established to provide a specialised service to the rapidly growing number of Asian headquartered multinational firms and all multinationals doing business within or into Asia.
“The depth and breadth of our experience in serving multinational clients in the key markets of Asia, in respect of intra-Asia transactions and inbound-outbound investment flows between Europe, the Americas and Asia, is unique” he said.
“We are the only independent firm offering truly specialist and integrated transfer pricing services to multinationals in Asia. In addition to our strategically located offices throughout the region, we work with a select group of alliance partners in other locations, to ensure that our clients receive only the best transfer pricing and local tax services,” he said.
The Quantera Global partners are highly experienced transfer pricing professionals, each with over 12 years of specialised experience in the key jurisdictions of Asia, Europe and North America. That experience has been gained from many years at the Big 4 accounting firms, boutique transfer pricing firms and tax authorities. The Quantera Global partners therefore know the complex and unique demands of the Asian region and the importance of strong local knowledge and are drawing on their experience, networks and insights to meet the specific needs of multinationals in the region.
Steven Carey, also a Senior Partner of Quantera Global, explained that “Quantera Global’s objective is to effectively partner with multinationals and provide high-quality and personalised transfer pricing services, utilizing an efficient and proven business model. We will demonstrate to multinationals that there is a better alternative to the Big 4 accounting firms, by providing superior quality services at more affordable rates”.
There is a 3rd partner launching the Firm: Stean Hainsworth, who as over 20 years of legal and tax experience, specialising in transfer pricing. He has worked as a transfer pricing specialist for PricewaterhouseCoopers for 10 years and more recently was Crowe Horwath International’s transfer pricing leader for Asia.