«Business Russia» is russian public organisation, the union of entrepreneurs of Russian business working in engineering, construction, light industry, agriculture and financial services, information technology and many others.

«Business Russia » unites businessmen from 68 Russian regions and 40 industrial unions.

We thank leaders of Saint-Petersburg Department of «Business Russia» for support!

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The program of conferences IBCPIB ™ includes not only interesting reports, but also coffee breaks, during which participants will discuss the speakers, set up business contacts and have a cup of coffee Lavazza.
 
Sponsor of coffee breaks is a company «Rustov Severo-Zapad», is an official distributor of «Luigi Lavazza SPA» in the North-West of Russia.
 
 You make an excellent cup of espresso by coffee machines line «Lavazza Espresso Point (LEP)», «Best Lavazza Ultimate Espresso (BLUE) and others professional coffee machines, provided by the company «Rustov Severo-Zapad».
 
We thank the company «Rustam Severo-Zapad» for cooperation!
 
Official site http://www.lavazza-piter.ru/

• Russia and International Tax Relations: Recent Changes in Tax Legislation of Russia Regarding International Taxation
• The Review of Recent Court Rulings in Russia with the Participation of Foreign Companies
• The Experience of Russian Companies in International Tax Relations (Review of Case Studies)
• The Specificity of International Taxation in Asian countries: Experience of Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore
• The Advantages of European and Asian Companies: Choosing the Right Jurisdiction while Structuring Assets in Russia and Abroad
• Efficient tax planning instruments in International Trade Activity
• Austria: How to Successfully Blend the Interests of Russian Family and its Business in a Cross-Border Environment
• The Opportunities of Cyprus as International Financial Centre after the Adoption of the New Protocol to Cyprus-Russia Tax Treaty
• Swedish Companies as an Efficient Instrument in International Tax Planning
• How Malta and Maltese Companies could be Useful to Russian Businessmen and Investors
• Slovakia and Slovak companies: Prospects of International Tax Planning
• The Review of Possible Changes in Hong Kong Companies Law
• Hong Kong Territorial Tax System: Recent Advance Rulings Review
• Singapore as an Attractive and Reliable Basis while Structuring International Investments into Russia and Asia
• Banks and Non-Resident Companies: Confidentiality Issues, Bank Secrecy Rules and Legislative Requirements of its Disclosure
• The Opportunities of Business Immigration to Switzerland, Singapore
• Ways of Receiving Residence Permit in EU: Experience of Estonia and Latvia

The representatives of the following companies have confirmed their presentations and speeches at the conference:

• Pepeliaev Group (Russia)
• Impex Consult (Russia)
• Bilanz-Data (Austria)
• VIETVALUES Audit and Consulting Group (Vietnam)
• Sovereign Trust (Singapore)
• Intertrust Group (Global)
• Francis J. Vassallo & Associates (Malta)
• Baker Tilly Klitou (Cyprus)
• PF/ACT (Slovakia)
• Artha Trust (Liechtenstein)
• Asia Business Service (Hong Kong)
• Management & Bookkeeping Services (Estonia)
• Molade Trust Management (the Netherlands)

and others.

Becoming a participant of the conference you can not only find out about the latest trends in international business planning but also take part in the round-table discussions.

«The Specificity of International Taxation while Investing into ASEAN countries: Experience of Vietnam and Indonesia» is the theme of speeches of Chor Ghee Lim during the 3nd International Business Conference “Planning of International Business: Experience of Russia, Europe and Asia”. June 2-3, 2011, Park Inn****, St. Petersburg, Russia.
 
Chor Ghee Lim is a Partner of VIETVALUES Audit & Consulting Group and the executive director for companies involved in cross border consultancy and training in Singapore and Malaysia. Through his many years of corporate, consultancy and training involvements in more than 15 countries, Chor Ghee has acquired extensive experience in dealing with cross border financial management, foreign direct investment, as well as structuring and managing strategic alliances and joint ventures particularly in Asia.
 
He is a regular speaker in international conferences and workshops. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Management & Science University of Malaysia. Up to 2002, he was the vice president (legal & corporate affairs) for a multinational public listed company in Hong Kong with annual turnover of USD 1.5 billion. Chor Ghee holds several postgraduate qualifications in international relations, business administration and e-business from Australian and UK universities, and is a professional member of numerous accounting and tax associations in Australia, Malaysia and USA.

Please accept our invitation to take part in the 3nd International Business Conference “Planning of International Business: Experience of Europe and Asia”. June 2-3, 2011, Park Inn****, St. Petersburg, Russia.

About Russia

The largest country in the world, Russia constitutes one-seventh of the world’s landmass and spans eight time zones. It’s total area is over 17 million square kilometers, with population of 200 million people. Russia borders on fourteen countries including the former republics of the USSR, which are now independent states. Russia borders with Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Poland, China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, Kazakhstan and so on.

About St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg is the northern capital of Russia. It is strategically located at the head of the Gulf of Finland on both banks of the Neva River and on the islands of its delta. Saint Petersburg is a major trade gateway, financial and industrial centre of Russia. It has three large cargo seaports.
The city is called Northern Venice because there are 65 rivers, arms and canals there with artistically decorated bridges. Saint Petersburg is also famous for its legendary white nights. The best time to visit St. Petersburg is during summer.

About Park Inn Hotel Pribaltiyskaya

Largest Conference Hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia. Boasting a prime location on the Gulf of Finland, this hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia is conveniently located nearby Lenexpo exhibition centre and a 15-minute drive to the city centre. The largest conference hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya is ideal for business and leisure travellers, offering easy access to public transport and nearby attractions like the Hermitage, Peter and Paul Fortress and the Russian Museum. Relax in one of the 1,200 newly renovated rooms overlooking the city or the Gulf of Finland. Guests avail premier services, such as room service, visa support and concierge service. Savour scrumptious dishes without having to step out of the hotel.

Untill 2004 Mr. Tiwari adviced and represented several corporates on issues relating to product liability, minority shareholders’ rights, exit strategies, labour laws, international commercial arbitration and indirect taxes. Since mid 2004 Mr. Tiwari have been engaged in structuring inbound transactions, advising foreign corporations on indirect tax issues, private equity transactions, real estate transactions and structuring joint ventures.

In 2009 Mr. Tiwari founded Themis Legal. Presently, Mr. Tiwari manages Themis Legal as its Managing Partner.

Info About Themis Legal

Themis Legal advises foreign and domestic clients on investments in Real Estate, structuring Private Equity transactions, Direct and Indirect Taxation, Intellectual Property Rights and Licensing Issues.

At present, Themis Legal has one office in Delhi, two Partners and two Associates.

Themis Legals’ client base includes domestic and multinational corporates from real estate, healthcare, textiles and IT and ITES.

• Audit and Assurance services;
• Accounting services;
• Corporate and Personal Taxation Services;
• Internal Audit Services;
• Corporate Finance and Business Advisory Services;
• IFRS Services.

Poorvi is the Founder and Managing Partner of LawQuest, a general business law firm in India.

Poorvi has an LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and an LL.B. from the renowned Government Law College, Mumbai.

Poorvi is licensed to practice law in India and the State of New York, which enables her to practice U.S. Federal Law and NY State law.  In addition, she is a registered and practicing Solicitor in England and Wales.

With more than 25 years of experience in litigation, corporate and commercial law coupled with her focused, recent experience in intellectual property law and global immigration laws, Poorvi has the ability to provide holistic legal counsel to LawQuest’s clients.   She has worked closely with large, local and international clients, including renowned, international consulting firms, Indian and American banks and investor relations companies, multi-jurisdictional business processing companies, pharmaceutical and health product organizations to name a few, helping them achieve their business goals in India and abroad.

Additionally, Poorvi is often quoted in the Economic Times, India’s leading business daily and on radio, CNBC-TV 18 and Zee Business News.  She regularly speaks at events organized by leading national and international organizations.  Poorvi was the founder Editor-in-Chief of the Business in South Asia: Legal Views and News, an initiative of NASABA’s Business Law Section.  NASABA, the North American South Asian Bar Association provides a vital link between South Asian lawyers across North America.  Currently Poorvi is an Associate Editor of the Indian Law News a quarterly published by the International Section of the ABA.  Poorvi has been nominated once again, amongst the world’s leading private practice lawyers in Who’s Who Legal for 2010-2011.   She regularly publishes articles in prominent national and international law and business journals. She has also authored papers on the “Impact of Certain International Laws on the Indian Outsourcing Industry,” “Copyrights and Emerging Technologies,” and on “Client Confidentiality and Privacy Issues When Providing Services to the UK and the US.”  Her most recent publication is “Doing Business in India – An Overview for Human Resource Professionals” launched at the Society for Human Resource Management’s 61^st Annual Conference & Exposition in the U.S., which is slated for translation into Spanish, Polish and Italian.

She serves as a Vice Chairperson on the India Committee, and the Women’s Interest Network both of which are a part of the Section of International Law, the American Bar Association (ABA).  She is the current president of The American Alumni Association, Mumbai, the Convener of the Society of Indian Law Firms, Mumbai Chapter and a founding member of the NYSBA’s India Chapter.  She is a special invitee on the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce’s (WIC) management committee.

Poorvi is actively involved in fund raising activities for education related charities and under her leadership, the team at LawQuest renders pro-bono services to several charitable institutes.

Since 1938, tax practitioners from all over the world rely on the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) for authoritative expertise on cross-border taxation. IBFD is the portal to high quality independent tax research, international tax information and education with the aim to enable customers to do their work more quickly and efficiently. The wealth of IBFD’s experience and knowledge is reflected in the make-up of the organization. IBFD employs over 50 research specialists and teacher’s staff from around 25 different countries.

International focus
IBFD has grown from a tax documentation centre into a contemporary online research institute. It caters for both the private and the public sector. It fulfils the information needs of tax advisory firms, multinational enterprises, international organizations, ministries of finance, tax administrations, universities and other tax practitioners in over 150 countries.

Significantly, IBFD operates on a not-for-profit basis and is completely independent. This is very much reflected in the objective and unbiased approach of our products, consultancy, education and software. IBFD’s organization is divided into IBFD’s Products and Services, which covers all publishing, educational, research and consultancy activities, and IBFD Foundation which executes several Academic Activities.

Did you ever wonder where the inspiration for the primary colours and bold shapes used in IBFD’s communications came from? The design used in IBFD’s brochures, website etc. is inspired by ’De Stijl’, a style developed in the Netherlands in the early 20th century. Mondriaan and Rietveld remain two of its most famous ambassadors.

Closely related to the Bauhaus style, this movement was truly international and started only two decades before IBFD was founded in 1938. This style has remained relevant and still influences many art and design forms. Both ’De Stijl’ and Bauhaus use clarity of form and colour to express modernity and timelessness.

IBFD’s link to ’De Stijl’, is through its representation of breadth of vision, solidness, and continuous innovation, qualities that we rate extremely highly and try to emulate in everything we do. By using ’De Stijl’ in our corporate house-style we aim to communicate our continuous efforts to ’build’ a comprehensive electronic warehouse of tax information based on our ’foundation’ of vast experience and cross-border tax expertise.

Incidentally, the many different shapes (circles, triangles and rectangles) in the house-style are enlarged components of our logo, which itself is a representation of Muiderpoort, the former location of IBFD in the Sarphatistraat, Amsterdam.

IBFD, your portal to cross-border tax expertiseSince 1938, tax practitioners from all over the world rely on the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) for authoritative expertise on cross-border taxation. IBFD is the portal to high quality independent tax research, international tax information and education with the aim to enable customers to do their work more quickly and efficiently. The wealth of IBFD’s experience and knowledge is reflected in the make-up of the organization. IBFD employs over 50 research specialists and teacher’s staff from around 25 different countries.

International focus

 IBFD has grown from a tax documentation centre into a contemporary online research institute. It caters for both the private and the public sector. It fulfils the information needs of tax advisory firms, multinational enterprises, international organizations, ministries of finance, tax administrations, universities and other tax practitioners in over 150 countries.IndependentSignificantly, IBFD operates on a not-for-profit basis and is completely independent. This is very much reflected in the objective and unbiased approach of our products, consultancy, education and software. IBFD’s organization is divided into IBFD’s Products and Services, which covers all publishing, educational, research and consultancy activities, and IBFD Foundation which executes several Academic Activities.

IBFD’s house-style inspired by ’De Stijl’Did you ever wonder where the inspiration for the primary colours and bold shapes used in IBFD’s communications came from? The design used in IBFD’s brochures, website etc. is inspired by ’De Stijl’, a style developed in the Netherlands in the early 20th century. Mondriaan and Rietveld remain two of its most famous ambassadors.Closely related to the Bauhaus style, this movement was truly international and started only two decades before IBFD was founded in 1938. This style has remained relevant and still influences many art and design forms. Both ’De Stijl’ and Bauhaus use clarity of form and colour to express modernity and timelessness.IBFD’s link to ’De Stijl’, is through its representation of breadth of vision, solidness, and continuous innovation, qualities that we rate extremely highly and try to emulate in everything we do. By using ’De Stijl’ in our corporate house-style we aim to communicate our continuous efforts to ’build’ a comprehensive electronic warehouse of tax information based on our ’foundation’ of vast experience and cross-border tax expertise.Incidentally, the many different shapes (circles, triangles and rectangles) in the house-style are enlarged components of our logo, which itself is a representation of Muiderpoort, the former location of IBFD in the Sarphatistraat, Amsterdam.

In September 1993 he was appointed Governor of the Central Bank of Malta – a position that he held until September 1997. During that period Mr. Vassallo played an extremely important role in the restructuring of Malta’s banking and financial system and also contributed in establishing Malta as a world-class Financial Centre. During these years, Mr Vassallo spearheaded various legislative changes in preparation for Malta’s entry into the EU, including the new Banking Act and the amended Central Bank Act as well as assisting on the preparation of the legislation on the Investment Services Act and Capital Markets and the enactment of Anti-Money Laundering Legislation in Malta. During his tenure as Governor, Mr Vassallo was a founding member of the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA).

Mr Vassallo is a member of the Board of FIMBANK plc and is a Director on various other companies including United Group, United Finance plc, Celsius SICAV (Barclays Bank), ALTMA and NBCG (National Bank of Canada) and White Rock Insurance (Europe) PCC Limited. He is a member of the ITPA, IFSP, IFA and is a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of St. John.

Mr Vassallo was Chairman of the Malta Development Corporation until October 2000 and was Chairman of BAWAG Malta Bank Limited until July 2009.
In March 2009 Mr Vassallo was appointed by the Malta Government as Special Envoy to initiate and negotiate, on behalf of the Malta Government, agreements on the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Protection of Investments in the Latin American Region.

In September 2009 Mr Vassallo was appointed as Chairman of the recently formed Mediterranean Bank.

Mr Vassallo is also the founding President of the Malta-Spanish Chamber of Commerce.

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