Moderator

Sivakumar Saravan
Senior Partner, Tax, Crowe Singapore

Siva is a senior partner and Head of Tax at Crowe Singapore. He has about 25 years of experience in tax compliance and tax consultancy work for business owners, expatriate employees, local corporations, public-listed companies, multinationals, and financial institutions. Siva has extensive experience in advising clients on international corporate and personal tax implications of various cross-border transactions involving the countries in the Asia-Pacific region. He routinely advises clients on the wide spectrum of issues relating to inbound and outbound investments into Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region. Siva’s experience in tax advisory includes advising on appropriate intellectual holding company structures, tax and social security implications of employee global mobility, tax implications of mergers and acquisitions and transfer pricing issues for several multinational companies based in Singapore.

Presenters

Sowmya Varadharajan
Director, Transfer Pricing, Crowe Singapore

Having been trained in the U.S.A. on international tax and transfer pricing issues through blue-chip corporations, Dr. Sowmya now applies her transfer pricing training to transfer pricing issues in the Asia-Pacific region. With the growth in transfer pricing-related audits in the Asia-Pacific region, Sowmya has assisted clients in India, China, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore in defending their transfer pricing arrangements with tax authorities. She also has significant experience in implementing and managing large-scale transfer pricing system design and documentation projects in Europe, the U.S.A. and Asia-Pacific, as well as defending clients in transfer pricing audits in Singapore and across the region.

Elly Lian
Director, Tax, Crowe Indonesia

Elly has more than 16 years of experience in Tax Consulting. She is a Tax Director at Crowe Indonesia. She has a wide experience in handling tax disputes, tax planning, tax consultation and also the handling of various cross-border transactions cases. Elly is a Certified Tax Attorney and Tax Consultant, and has obtained the highest working license qualification. She is also a member of the Indonesian Tax Consultant Association. Throughout her tax consultancy career, Elly has served numerous multinational and national companies from different industries, and provided advice for general/specific tax matters.

Gandi Siregar
Manager, Transfer Pricing, Crowe Indonesia

Gandi Siregar is a Transfer Pricing Manager at Crowe Indonesia. He is a chartered accountant and a member of the Indonesian Accounting Association. Prior to joining Crowe Indonesia, he was the Head of Transfer Pricing at Gojek, Indonesia. He assisted in building the transfer pricing structure of Gojek Group in South East Asia. Gandi has also worked as a transfer pricing consultant at a Big 4 Accounting Firm, and has advised Indonesian and foreign multinational groups on transfer pricing documentation, transfer pricing audits, objection, appeal, Mutual Agreement Procedures and others.

Kishenjeet Dhillon
Associate Director, Transfer Pricing, Crowe Malaysia

Kishenjeet has close to a decade of tax experience with a specific focus on the area of transfer pricing. He has worked on various transfer pricing assignments including transfer pricing compliance and documentation preparation, transfer pricing advisory, transfer pricing audit support and dispute resolution with the tax authorities in Malaysia. He works primarily with multinational clients and large-scale groups of companies across various industries. In the past, Kishenjeet has co-authored and contributed numerous tax articles, appearing in publications such as the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia's Tax Guardian, The Edge Malaysia and internal network publications.