Peng Tao

Peng Tao focuses his practice on PRC tax, transfer pricing, mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, and general corporate and commercial issues concerning operations in China, offshore investment from China and other cross-border transactions. Peng worked at the Fiscal and Financial Department with the Bureau of Legislative Affairs of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China from 1992 to 1997. He drafted and reviewed banking and tax laws and regulations that were applicable nationwide in China including the Individual Income Tax Law (amended) and its implementing regulations, the Provisional Regulations on Value Added Tax, the Law on People's Bank of China and the Law on Commercial Banks. Peng has worked in DLA Piper’s New York (where he was head of the China desk in the tax group), Shanghai and Hong Kong offices before being transferred to Silicon Valley office.