Asia tax series - session two: recent developments in tax treaty law and practice across the Asia Pacific region

Gouri Puri is a Partner in the tax practice at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. Gouri works closely on international tax planning matters and digital taxation. She has over ten years’ experience advising prominent multinationals on tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, investment structures, establishment of funds, private capital arrangements and corporate restructurings. Gouri is actively involved in various thought leadership initiatives and policy advocacy through her collaboration with industry chambers, business and legal media. Gouri holds a master’s degree in taxation laws from Harvard Law School, where she was the Dean’s Scholar for the Seminar on Current Issues in Tax Law, Policy and Practice. Gouri is admitted to the New York State Bar and Bar Council of India.

Irene practises in all aspects of Tax and Revenue law advisory, structuring, planning, audits, investigations, dispute resolution and litigation (including tax appeals, declaratory proceedings, judicial review applications, civil suits etc.), sales tax, service tax, goods and services tax (GST), transfer pricing, income tax, real property gains tax, indirect taxes, stamp duty, taxation of oil and gas companies, tax incentives, trusts, and asset protection and planning. Irene has appeared as counsel for taxpayers before the GST Appeal Tribunal, the Special Commissioners of Income Tax and the Superior Courts of Malaysia. She is recognised for her tax work by The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, Chambers Asia Pacific, Euromoney’s Expert Guides and by the International Tax Review. She is an author for tax publications for Bloomberg BNA and also won the International Tax Contributor of the Year 2018 awarded by Bloomberg Tax.