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Qing is a Partner in the Private Client team and Head of China. She advises high-net-worth individuals, private families, senior executives, internationally mobile clients and corporations on UK and cross-border tax and legal matters.
Qing is qualified as a Solicitor, Chartered Tax Adviser and Chartered Accountant, with over 20 years' experience advising clients on complex UK-China and wider international issues. Her work focuses on private wealth planning, international structuring and people-related matters arising from relocation, overseas investment and global activity, including advising Chinese clients with UK interests and UK businesses expanding in China.
She also has a long-standing focus on the education sector, advising universities and independent schools on international strategy and cross-border compliance, an area closely connected to her China-related work.
Qing takes a holistic, one-stop approach, working closely with colleagues across immigration, corporate, trust, property and family law to support clients as their personal, family and business interests develop internationally. Before joining Howard Kennedy, she was a Tax Director at PwC UK and worked with private clients in Guernsey and London. With extensive experience across the UK, China and Asia, she is frequently instructed as a long-term adviser by Chinese and international clients.
- Advising an international company on its first-time setting up in the UK, covering key legal requirements related to tax, office leasing, commercial contracts, employment law and immigration, including sponsor licences and visa applications.
- Advising an individual on their move from Asia to the UK, including pre-arrival tax planning and long-term inheritance tax planning for overseas assets.
- Advising a UK-resident international family on their wealth planning, including the family business in their home country, property and business investments in the UK, and family wealth succession planning and structuring, as well as assisting with the preparation of necessary legal documents.
- Acting for several companies in relation to tax inquiries from HMRC concerning offshore payments and benefits provided to their international senior executives and expatriates in the UK.
- Advising a UK organisation with employees working remotely outside of the UK on their remote working policies and cross-border tax, employment and immigration compliance.
- Advising an international company on their post-acquisition people-related tax, employment and immigration planning and compliance following the acquisition of a UK business.
- Advising an international business' regulatory requirements and application of permits from the FCA.
- Assisting a proposed equity investment of a UK company including legal due diligence, tax advice, negotiations and drafting relevant legal documents.
Qing is passionate about the education sector. She serves on the boards of two UK universities, as well as Finance & Property and Audit & Risk committees.
