Alberto Vettoretti

Dezan Shira & Associates is a pan-Asia, specialist practice that provides multi-disciplinary foreign direct investment advisory and operational services to international businesses seeking to enter and expand their businesses as your partner for growth in Asia.

Founded in Hong Kong in 1992, Dezan Shira & Associates today, has more than 350 professionals based in its 34 subsidiary offices in China, India, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia and its liaison offices in Italy, Germany, Dubai and the United States. The firm also has established alliance partnerships, with offices in Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand.

Our mission is to guide foreign companies through Asia’s complex regulatory environment and assist them with all aspects of establishing, maintaining and growing their operations in the region. In essence, we walk clients through the entire process of Asian market familiarization, business planning, and corporate establishment, and provide post-establishment administration, financial, HR, payroll, and IT services.

We work both locally and regionally, to advise and assist with planning for clients operating in one or many local jurisdictions. Our experts deliver a blended service to clients, built on a methodology of confidential internal collaboration to enhance our extensive best practices and knowledgebase. This practice model provides clients with a concisely detailed and accurate view of current developments at the local and regional levels and across tax and regulatory matters.

Our Clients: 

Our clients are typically mid cap companies, including subsidiaries of listed corporations, smaller family firms as well as large MNC's. As such, we cater to both Fortune 500 players and Global 5000 clients, and increasingly serve rapidly growing entrepreneurial firms as well. We presently serve international clients from 70 countries, where 40% of our clients originate in North America, and 35% from throughout Europe. These clients operate in a range of sectors, including engineering, architectural services, construction, automotive, infrastructure, CTI and telecommunications, Consumer Goods and Services, e-commerce, import-export, light manufacturing, and business services. Our diversified clientele allows us to strengthen the knowledge base that we continue to use in assisting our clients do business across Asia.

Our Resource & Credentials: 

Dezan Shira & Associates is committed to improving the understanding and transparency of investing across Asia. We publish significant and well received business intelligence about each of the markets and disciplines in which it operates in through its publishing subsidiary Asia Briefing Ltd., which includes technical publications and highly rated websites concerning business investment in Asia, ASEAN, China, India, Vietnam and the Middle East. The firm also sustains an exhaustive business library on its own website. Also, we have launched targeted investor portals for Vietnam and China, to deliver curated resources to prepare our clients market expansions.

Areas of Practice

“Alberto Vettoretti is specialized in corporate structuring, tax planning and legal and management issues affecting foreign-invested enterprises in Asia.  Alberto oversees Dezan Shira & Associates’ global operations, and directly manages the firm’s Vietnam offices (Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City) and its offices in Singapore and Indonesia.”

Biography

“Alberto joined the firm as an equity partner in 1998, and today is responsible for its overall development in Asia.  Since his joining, Dezan Shira & Associates has grown into a pan-Asian organization with over 300 professionals, 18 subsidiary offices in China, India, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia, and liaison offices in Italy, Germany and the United States.  The firm also has established alliance partnerships, with offices in Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand.

Mr. Vettoretti actively sits on the boards of various multinational corporations, advises government, chairs international organizations and is a regular guest lecturer at Universities. Alberto serves as Vice Chairman of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, where he previously served as its South China Chapter Chairman, until 2017.  He sits on Italy Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) China Board of Directors.  Elected as a member of YPO’s (Young President Organization), PRD Chapter, Alberto also currently sits as its Finance Chair.

Alberto acts as International Advisor to the Government of Guangzhou, in recognition of his knowledge on FDI in the region and his continuous help to make the city an even better place for foreign investments, since 2011.

As an avid supporter of business communities and knowledge-sharing, Alberto consistently contributes to Asia Briefing Ltd., the firm’s subsidiary publishing company. Asia-Briefing’s seven publications relate to international trade and doing business in Asia markets, and include: China-Briefing, Vietnam-Briefing, India-Briefing and ASEAN-Briefing among others.  Mr. Vettoretti is also a regular guest lecturer at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari Challenge School, and an expert source commenter for The Financial Times, The South China Morning Post, Il Sole 24 Ore, China Daily and a host of other local and internationally recognized publications.

Alberto Vettoretti was born in Italy, and educated in the U.K., where he obtained a Bachelors Degree in Chinese, Economics and Management, at Durham University, and an MBA with a specialization in Chinese law, with Staffordshire University.  Alberto has been living in Asia for over 20 years and speaks and writes fluent Mandarin, Italian, English and Spanish.”