Tax Advisers - Deloitte

Japan
Eric N Roose
White & Case
Kandabashi Park Building
19-1, Kanda-nishikicho 1-chome
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0054
Japan
Tel: (81) 3 3259 0152
Fax: (81) 3 3259 0150
Email: eroose@tokyo.whitecase.com
Website: www.whitecase.com
Mr Roose is a tax partner in the Tokyo office of White & Case LLP, where his practice
focuses on international tax planning and general corporate and business advisory tax
work, focusing on the Asia-Pacific region and the US.
Mr Roose has 25 years’ experience advising multinational and domestic businesses,
international investment funds and venture capital funds, high-technology companies,
financial institutions and financial service industry companies with respect to all tax
aspects of their business and investment activities in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly
with regard to Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and also with regard to the US.
He also has experience representing public and closely held businesses, as well as highnet-worth
foreign individuals, in tax controversies involving a range of international and
domestic tax issues.
Mr Roose’s recent experience includes:
• advising multinationals on their Asia-Pacific region tax strategies, including inbound
investment tax structuring, the development, transfer and commercial use of
intellectual property, and the restructuring of their operations both within the region
as well as in Europe and the US;
• representing sellers and purchasers with respect to the local law tax aspects of their
M&A activities in Japan and China, and with regard to the taxation of their foreign
activities by the US;
• advising global financial institutions on the Japanese and Chinese tax treatment of
sophisticated financial products, tax structured financing, and financial transactions;
• advising foreign investment funds and hedge funds on the development of tax-efficient
Asia-Pacific region investment structures, including investment structures for Japan,
South Korea, and China;
• advising global real estate investment funds on the US and Japan tax aspects of their
investments in Japanese real estate and non-performing assets;
• advising Asia-based multinationals with respect to the restructuring of their US debts
and business operations.
Mr Roose received his law degree from the University of Illinois, where he graduated first
in his law school class. He also holds an undergraduate degree in accounting, with
distinction, from the University of Hawaii.
Mr Roose is a certified public accountant as well as an attorney. He is also licensed in
Japan as a gaikokuho jimu bengoshi.
Mr Roose is a former chairman of the Tax Section of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association.
Mr Roose is a frequent speaker at international tax seminars and frequently contributes
articles to leading tax journals.
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