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Florence is a tax partner of the Financial Services Group of the Hong Kong Office, member of the PwC Global Alternative Investment Management Advisory Committee and the Asia Pacific Tax Leader of Investment Management Practice. She has over 20 years of professional tax experience assisting clients to devise, plan and implement tax efficient holding and operational structures for funds and fund managers including stamp duty exemption and remission applications and transfer pricing structures. She works closely with the Investment Management industry to successfully lobby the Hong Kong Government to clarify the profits tax exemption for "offshore funds" which was passed into law on 1 March 2006. Florence is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the Chartered Institute of Taxation (U.K.), the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Taxation Institute of Hong Kong, and a registered accountant in Macau. She is a member of the Global Taxation Committee of the Alternative Investments Management Association ("AIMA"), the Executive Committee of AIMA - Hong Kong Chapter and the chairman of the tax-subcommittee of AIMA-HK. She is a frequent speaker at seminars and contributor of articles in Hong Kong and overseas. Florence graduated from Imperial College, UK, with a degree in Computer Science. She is the honourary treasurer of the Imperial College Hong Kong Alumni Association Endowment Fund.
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