Milano is an M&A tax partner in the Beijing office, who is the national leader of the inbound M&A tax team of KPMG China. He has more than 19 years of professional tax experience in providing Chinese tax and regulatory consulting services to multinational companies and domestic enterprises, both private and state owned. His areas of expertise include private equity investment, and industrial, fast-moving consumer goods and logistics clients.
Milano has led various high-profile and large-scale tax due diligence projects, and has in-depth knowledge of tax planning and M&A transaction structuring. Using this experience, he leads the offshore indirect equity transfer team (i.e., Announcement 7) within KPMG China. Milano has helped the team to successfully conclude several high-profile Announcement 7 cases, and was invited as a trainer by the State Taxation Administration (STA) on Announcement 7-related issues.
He has wide connections with various tax authorities, from the STA to the local level, and rich experience of negotiation with them on greenfield investment and M&A restructurings.
