Kyle Freeman

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.

Kyle Freeman is a Partner at Dezan Shira & Associates, and leads the International Business Advisory team in North China as well as the firm's North American client services desk in Asia. He advises clients on market entry strategy, corporate structuring and establishment, and related tax and legal issues concerning investment in China, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia.

Prior to joining Dezan Shira & Associates, Kyle worked in government relations and China trade policy for various public and private organizations. His work included assisting in high-level, US-China bilateral trade dialogues and organizing public-private cooperation programs to promote US and foreign investment in China.

Kyle has a master's degree in economics and international trade from the University of International Business and Economics, in Beijing, and dual bachelor's degrees in economics and global affairs from George Mason University, in Washington D.C. He has also been a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford and the Beijing Language Culture University.