About Dezan Shira & Associates
Dezan Shira & Associates is a pan-Asia, multi-disciplinary professional services firm - providing clients with corporate, professional, and technology services essential for navigating Asia's complex regulatory environments.
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.
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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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We provide professional services tailored to Asia´s business environment across the full business cycle.
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Discover our esteemed global clients across diverse sectors. We believe in providing our clients with exceptional service and a commitment to being their partner for growth in Asia.
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