Nick (Jiapeng) Li Email & Phone Number

Kunming, Yunnan, China

Shanghai, China

Shanghai, China

•Advised multinational companies to formulate their cross-border investment strategies, structure their expansion and streamline their operating structures to comply with various business and tax regulations in China• Delivered professional tax services to PE funds with their overseas Merger & Acquisition transactions, such services as tax due diligence, pre-deal structuring and post-deal integration for over 5 sizable deals• Provided foreign investors with tax-related consulting in their inbound investment into China, including consultations on entrance strategy, investment structure, financing structure, repatriation of profits, as well as negotiations with tax bureaus for tax concessions and exemptions• Engaged in day-to-day operation tax advisory, tax compliance review, and negotiation for tax audit defense for over 15 clients

Denton Tx

Assist students in their school work related to accountingClarify and answer any questions they have regarding problems or issues they have in classTrain them on how to complete work effectively and efficientlyProvide positive feedback and motivation

Houston, Texas Area

Identified and documented the “qualified research expenditures” associated with research and development activitiesCalculated credits generated by qualifying R&D expendituresProvided supporting documentation for those activities and expenditures to comply with IRS or state taxing authority requirementsDeveloped and implemented procedures for clients that may help identify, document, calculate, and support R&D credit claims accurately and efficiently

Dallas Tx

Engaged in multiple pitches and extensive industry analysis related to commercial real estate industryExecuted financial modeling process and return analysis for potential real estate development projects which involved extensive use of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae documentsDeveloped operation cash flow analysis for a $110 million music performance hall development project which included creating an operation cash flow model and conducting a detailed revenue and cost analysisCreated newsletters, emails and blogs to increase potential foreign investors' recognition for EB-5 immigration program

Irving Texas

Supported daily and monthly revenue, labor, and purchasing comparison analysis produced out of the Cognos ExecuVue system.Monitored and analyzed weekly performance operating trends of 21 watch list hotels.Assisted in providing pro forma statements for acquisition underwriting and performing valuations of subject hotels. Conducted benchmarking analysis across brands or similar size properties, including line-by-line costs comparisons.Produced daily, weekly, and monthly reports with the capability of slicing data by state, region, brand, or by request for internal and external reporting.Communicated with ownership regarding portfolio performance and market information, and identified key expense drivers and problem markets.

Master Of Science (Ms), Accounting, 3.5

Activities and Societies: 2015 IAEP Leadership & Networking Retreat UNT NABA Student Chapter Tax Executives Institute - Dallas Chapter.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Finance, General

Activities and Societies: Financial Leadership Association

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance, General, A

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma