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’s practice focusses on:
- Corporate and commercial transactions, including acquisitions and sale of assets and businesses, corporate restructures and debt and equity funding.
- Taxation, relating to both Federal taxes (such as income tax and capital gains tax) and State taxes (such as duty and land tax), as well as advisory and dispute matters. King is often called upon to advise on complex tax issues and tax risk management. He has also acted for clients in tax risk reviews, audits, objections and private ruling applications with revenue authorities.
- Private wealth, particularly in assisting clients with strategic business and personal succession plans, including establishing single family offices (both in Australia and overseas), implementing wealth preservation strategies and implementing a framework for multi-generational succession.
King is recognised by The Best Lawyers in Australia TM for his expertise in Taxation law (2027). He joined Keypoint 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
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 |