ALFI Roadshow to Asia

Michael Velten is a Financial Services Tax Partner with Deloitte in Singapore. He currently serves as the firm’s Southeast Asia Family Office Leader.

Michael has 35 years of tax experience; 30 years of which have been spent working in Asia having been based in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Singapore. Prior to joining Deloitte, Michael had held senior tax roles with leading financial institutions and professional firms in Asia-Pacific and academic appointments at the University of Melbourne and National University of Singapore.​  Michael started is career in Melbourne and was a senior associate with a leading Australian law firm.

As a Deloitte financial services tax partner, Michael focuses across sector (i.e., banking and capital markets, investment management and real estate) as well as emerging areas such digital assets and carbon credit trading. Michael advises on all areas of financial services tax; he has a particular focus on fund structuring, M&A, financing transactions and complex advisory. He advises throughout the private equity / real estate deal life cycle, including cross-border structuring, due diligence, asset financing, tax compliance and divestments.

In addition to his work with institutional clients. Michael leads our private client practice (i.e. Deloitte Private); his work includes Asian family advisory and family office establishment

Michael is qualified as both a Solicitor (Supreme Court of Victoria and High Court of Australia) and a CPA (Australia). He is an Accredited Tax Advisor: Income tax and GST (Singapore), a Certified Tax Adviser (Hong Kong) and a Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP). Michael is a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Hong Kong, an Associate of the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia and a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors.​

Michael holds a Master of Taxation from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Laws from the National University of Singapore.