China Overseas Investment Network

The China Overseas Investment Network (COIN) connects EY professionals around the globe, facilitates collaboration and provides consistent and coordinated services to our Chinese clients to make outbound investments.

Building on the existing China Business Group in the Americas, EMEIA and Asia-Pacific areas, COIN has expanded our network to over 70 countries and territories around the world.

COIN is part of EY’s commitment to provide seamless and high-quality client services, worldwide, to Chinese companies going overseas and doing business overseas. Our globally integrated structure enables us to deploy dedicated teams with strong local experience and deep industry knowledge to provide seamless services to our clients.

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How EY COIN makes a difference

  • Mission Statement: Connecting East and West

    EY’s Switzerland China Business Desk serves as a touchpoint where East meets West, and where culture intersects with business. As a team, we strive to assist both inbound and outbound clients in their market and business endeavors by offering Swiss and Chinese corporate clients a unique platform to obtain industry know-how and to gain insight into proactive business development approaches in both China and Switzerland. This platform offers clients a holistic perspective of markets, opportunities and challenges, and solutions based on local jurisdictions and industries in both countries. 

  • Unique Inbound Services for Chinese Corporates in Switzerland

    o  Provides wide range of services and expertise to help Chinese clients who intent to develop business in Switzerland in better transitioning and integrating into the scenic country of Switzerland.

    • Tax & Legal: Offers support to help navigate through the Swiss tax system, to provide understanding of Swiss legal requirements, to help set up a legal entity, or to raise capital within the local market.
    • Audit & Assurance: Provides high-quality audits and advice on optimizing internal controls and IT systems.
    • Consulting: Formulates and implements business strategies (i.e. technology transfer, patent management, supply chain diversification and management).
    • Strategy & Transaction (SaT): Assists in M&A transactions including expansion and divestitures of businesses, and funding strategies.
    • People Advisory Services (PAS): Assists in the matters of culture support, social cost, work authorization application.

    o  Consists of multilingual team members who are proficient in Chinese-Mandarin, English, German, French, etc. to help facilitate local business communications and to bridge the cultural and business etiquette gap.

    o  Leverages existing relationships with various Swiss non-profit and government agencies

    • to promote investments from China into Switzerland.
    • to help Chinese corporations to get established quickly and develop their activities in the region.

    o  Shares business networks with and receives extensive supports from the China Desks from other European countries.

    o  Host webcasts partnering with different business and market experts for specific topics such as European market trend updates, European business-related regulatory updates, sector-specific industry updates, etc.

    o  Host events to provide networking opportunities with local businesses in Switzerland to promote local and foreign investments.

  • Unique Outbound Services for Swiss Corporates in China

    • Understanding the legal and regulatory environment of China is sometimes challenging for Swiss clients. Hence, we are here to offer our expertise and experience to overcome challenges and identify opportunities in the environment for a swift move into the Chinese market.
    • The China Business Desk extends its offerings to provide the latest industry insights, essential business information updates from various service lines within EY, and recent market developments in China. Additionally, we facilitate networking opportunities with local businesses in China and promote local and foreign investments as key priorities.

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) of China based companies in Switzerland

How can China based companies benefit from Swiss-Chinese investments?

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The mission of our China Business Desk is to turn business challenges between East and West into opportunities for our clients.

Hubert Stadler

Partner | International Tax/Transfer Pricing | Head of China Outbound Investment Network Switzerland and China business Service Desk

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