Bas Leenders, Tax Partner – International Tax Services Leader Europe Tax Desk, Asia Pacific Tax Center

Bas is currently based in Hong Kong where he leads the Europe tax desk resources for Asia Pacific. Bas relocated to Shanghai in 2011 on a long term assignment serving APAC based clients investing into Europe, with a specific focus on China based multinationals.

As a tax partner in EY’s Dutch member firm, Bas also assists Dutch headquartered multinationals investing into the Asia Pacific region. Since joining Ernst & Young in 1996, on a daily basis Bas has been involved with advising of and compliance for US, European and Asian based multinationals, focusing primarily on holding, finance and intellectual property structures, internal restructurings, mergers and acquisitions and divestment strategies.

Bas brings 18 years hands on experience in the field of advising multinationals in a broad range of industries on Dutch tax aspects and tax treaty implications of inbound, outbound and throughbound investments, on the tax technical side as well as the project management side.