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Justin Smith
Title: Sr. Director, Advisory Service
Company: High Street Partners
 (Sr. Director, Advisory Service at High Street Partners)
If your business is planning an international expansion, a key consideration is how to setup your operations. And, if your overseas business opens you up to permanent establishment risk, you may to consider establishing an international entity. But what kind of...
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Justin Smith
Title: Sr. Director, Advisory Service
Company: High Street Partners
 (Sr. Director, Advisory Service at High Street Partners)
By Nancy Kawano  and Merrili L. Escue , DLA Piper This post is a condensed version of a two-part series originally published by DLA Piper. See  Costly Employment Mistakes Emerging Companies Should Avoid, Part One and Part Two for the complete articles...
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Gregory Schomer
Title: CFO
Company: AVBC, Inc.
 (CFO at AVBC, Inc.)
Our company does business with a foreign partner in Tiawan with offices in China.   We are considering a formal merger or joint venture to create a true worldwide presence which our customers find important, and continued success is dependant on our continuing...
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Justin Smith
Title: Sr. Director, Advisory Service
Company: High Street Partners
 (Sr. Director, Advisory Service at High Street Partners)
If you have a company that operates internationally, you are likely familiar with the concept of transfer pricing.  With multinational companies working in countries with different tax laws and rates, transfer pricing is used to determine proper allocation of...
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Justin Smith
Title: Sr. Director, Advisory Service
Company: High Street Partners
 (Sr. Director, Advisory Service at High Street Partners)
Last week’s webinar Why Transfer Pricing Matters: Avoiding Common Pitfalls encouraged a lot of discussion.There were several interesting questions from attendees for HSP's transfer pricing expert Justin Smith and DLA Piper's Ray Brown; here are some of...
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Justin Smith
Title: Sr. Director, Advisory Service
Company: High Street Partners
 (Sr. Director, Advisory Service at High Street Partners)
It’s nearly impossible to open a newspaper or flip on a world news station without coming across a story covering China’s economic growth within the last few years. With consistent annual growth rates of around 10 percent for the last decade and the...
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Justin Smith
Title: Sr. Director, Advisory Service
Company: High Street Partners
 (Sr. Director, Advisory Service at High Street Partners)
Any professional involved in the international expansion for his or her company understands that the task will not be particularly easy. But what is that keeps CFOs and others up at night when considering setting up international operations? Our recent survey of...