Fang Theng Chee

Fang Theng is a Tax Director based in the Singapore office (in alliance with Wikborg Rein Singapore). She is specializing in tax and trusts. Her areas of work for the last 15 years include international tax planning, corporate taxation, personal tax planning, trusts, estate planning, stamp duties, property tax and goods and services tax. She has advised international and multinational corporations (including international shipping, aviation and major oil companies), financial and public listed institutions, and foreign banks, involving corporate structuring, withholding taxes, double taxation agreements, trusts, estate planning and succession planning. She also assists clients in tax investigations matters and handles tax litigation cases before the Board of Review, High Court and Court of Appeal.

Fang Theng has authored the Singapore chapter of Tolley’s Planning & Administration of Offshore and Onshore Trusts, Tolley’s International Succession Laws, and Anti-Moneylaundering: International Law and Practice (published by John Wiley & Sons in 2007), contributed to the International Tax Review, and participated in various Law Society committees set up to examine proposed tax and trust legislation. She is also included in the list of recommended tax practitioners compiled by PLC Cross-border Tax on Transactions Handbook, which is a jurisdictional guide to leading tax lawyers worldwide. Fang Theng is qualified as a solicitor in England and Singapore. She is also a registered as a TEP with the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners, which is based in London and has branches worldwide.

Curriculum Vitae

Work experience:

• 2008 - Director, Pan Asia Law Corporation
• 2007 Co-Head, Tax Department, KhattarWong (Singapore)
• 2003-2006 Tax Partner, KhattarWong (Singapore)
• 2001 Secondment to Eversheds (London)
• 2000-2002 Senior Associate, Khattar Wong & Partners (Singapore)
• 1996-2000 Associate, Khattar Wong & Partners (Singapore)
• 1995 Pupilage, Khattar Wong & Partners (Singapore)
• 1995 Attachment, General Electric (Singapore)
• 1994 Attachment, Baker & McKenzie (Hong Kong)
• 1993 Chinese law course, Beijing Law and Political University (Beijing)
• 1992 Attachment, Khattar Wong & Partners (Singapore)
  

Directorships:

• Member of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (TEP)
• Member of ad hoc Committee for the Law Society on amendments to the Trustees Act (2004)
• Member of ad hoc Committee for the Law Society on tax effects on the abolition of par value for shares (2004)
• Member of ad hoc Committee for the Law Society on proposed change to current year basis of tax assessment (2004)
• Member of ad hoc Committee for the Law Society on examining the tax implications of Limited Liability Partnerships (2005-6)

Education:

• LL.B (Hon) Singapore