Tax

Before joining Jingtian & Gongcheng, Lawrence has worked for Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People’s Court, Ping’an Investment Bank, Richard & Co. and MWE China Law Offices for more than 10 years.  Lawrence mainly focuses onthe areas of corporate and tax, litigation and compliance and etc.

In the corporate area, Lawrence has provided full-cycle service to either companies or investors or funds on matters of start-up, ESOP, investment and finance, merge & acquisition and IPOs.  In addition, Lawrence also represent either the onshore companies or offshore companies in their investment, operation and merge & acquisition.

In the tax area, Lawrencehas covered almost all types of tax (VAT / CIT / IIT / DTAand etc.) and diverse industries (FMCG / Manufacturing / Financial / Software and Hi-Tech / Distribution / Pharmacyand etc.).Lawrence often advise multinational companies on their investments and operations and high-net-worth individuals on their asset planning. His tax education background facilitates his communication with the tax authorities and he has created a record of visiting seven tax authorities in nine days. 

In the compliance area, his combined background will help identify irregular accounting treatments and further trace back to the underlying bribe acts and even other illegal payments in the investigation and design compliant accounting and tax treatments to avoid non-compliance charges in the internal control work; further, in the defense work, his litigation experience will be useful in the collection of evidence materials and communication with and defend against enforcement authorities. 

In the litigation area, he is familiar with the judges’ thoughts adjudicating cases and comparatively easily make the judges accept his legal opinion. Further, as compared to other litigators, Lawrence is one of a few lawyers who have accumulated solid expertise in evidence law and he is invariably able to employ his evidence expertise to lead the case to a result in favour of his client. 

Leveraging his knowledge and experience in law, tax and accounting, Lawrence offers advice and solutions from multiple perspectives, resulting in a more comprehensive and practical approach than any anchored on a legal or a tax perspective alone.

Lawrence is often invited along with officers from enforcement authorities to lecture tax & compliance-related topics on a great variety of seminars. His speech’s authority and practicability was widely recognized by the attendees.

Lawrence was admitted to PRC bar in 2001.

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Lawrence Hu graduated from Taxation College of Yangzhou University, East China University of Politics and Law and University of Virginia with LL.B. and LL.M.