King Tan is a senior lawyer with extensive experience acting in matters requiring strategic legal advice. His clients include corporate groups, investment funds, private family groups and high net worth individuals.
King is recognised by The Best Lawyers in Australia TM for his expertise in Taxation Law (2026) and by the Doyle’s Guide as a Recommended Tax Advisory Lawyer (2026), Recommended Tax Controversy Lawyer (2026) and Leading High Net Worth Wealth & Succession Planning Lawyer (2026).
King’s practice covers three core areas:
- Corporate & Commercial — Acquisitions and disposals of assets and businesses, corporate structuring and restructures, funding arrangements and employee share option plans.
- Private Wealth — Advising families and individuals on business and personal succession planning, including matters with cross-border elements and strategies for asset protection and wealth preservation. King enjoys working with clients in designing and implementing frameworks for multi-generational succession. He also advises on trusts law.
- Taxation — Federal taxes (including income tax and capital gains tax) and State taxes (including duty and land tax) in both advisory and dispute contexts. King is often called upon to advise on complex tax issues and tax risk management. He represents taxpayers in risk reviews, audits, tax objections, private ruling applications and appeals to courts and tribunals.
King joined Keypoint Law in 2023 and is based in Sydney.
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King has both a profound and holistic understanding of the Australian tax law and is able to execute his in-depth knowledge to produce pragmatic tax solutions and clear legal advice. He is diligent and conscientious and always a pleasure to work with.
Private Client
Expertise
- business structuring;
- acquisitions and disposals of assets and businesses;
- restructuring of corporate groups;
- inbound and outbound investments and cross-border arrangements;
- tax treatment of income, gains and expenditures;
- property developments and acquisitions;
- transfer duty, corporate reconstructions, foreign purchaser surcharge, landholder duty and land tax;
- trust law and trust taxation;
- superannuation planning (including SMSFs);
- strategic business and personal succession planning; and
- managing tax disputes and investigations, including notices, risk reviews, tax audits, tax objections, litigation and dispute resolution.
Experience
- Acting for a high net wealth group in preparing for and disposing of its shares in a real estate group to a foreign buyer for a headline price of $102.5m.
- Advising a high net wealth family group in devising a business succession plan, including establishment of cross-border family offices, to enable the next generation to takeover family investments and work together in preserving and growing the family wealth.
- Advising a private group on Division 7A and employee share scheme rules, including assisting the group in reviewing its employee share scheme for compliance with the ESS start-up rules.
- Advising a foreign company on cross-border tax issues from the provision of services to related members, including permanent establishment risks.
- Assisting a foreign listed company on a restructure of its Australian corporate group, including obtaining rulings from State revenue authorities on availability of corporate reconstruction duty relief.
- Acting for a high net wealth family in resolving multiple income tax disputes with the Commissioner of Taxation, including through mediation.
- Acting for a listed company in an income tax dispute with the Commissioner of Taxation concerning its foreign branch arrangement.
Recognition
- Masters of Laws, University of Sydney
- Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Sydney
- Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting), University of Sydney
- Member, Law Society of NSW
- Fellow, The Tax Institute
King is recognised by The Best Lawyers in Australia TM for his expertise in Taxation Law (2026) and by the Doyle’s Guide as a Recommended Tax Advisory Lawyer (2026), Recommended Tax Controversy Lawyer (2026) and Leading High Net Worth Wealth & Succession Planning Lawyer (2026).
Career
| 2023 | Keypoint Law | Consulting Principal |
| 2021-2023 | Coleman Greig | Team Leader, Special Counsel |
| 2017-2021 | King & Wood Mallesons | Senior Associate |
| 2013-2017 | Argyle Lawyers |Senior Associate |
| 2011-2013 | KPMG | Tax Consultant |