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Archibald M. Sam, with close to
30 years of experience in the
public accounting industry, is the
founding and managing partner
of Archibald M. Sam & Company,
a San Francisco based
accounting and consulting firm.
Mr. Sam serves clients in
diversified industries including
wholesalers, importers,
manufacturers and real estate
operators. The areas Mr. Sam
focus his practice on include
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foreign investments in United States, real estate transactions,
corporate restructure, merger and acquisition, financial
forensics and business valuation. A significant number of Mr.
Sam's clients are multi-national entities with a number of them
subsidiaries of corporations listed in foreign stock exchanges
and conducting businesses in various states in the United
States.
Some of the projects Mr. Sam has been responsible for
include: representing a national known food and beverage
client in a complicated multi-national and multi-state income
tax audit involving transfer pricing issues, a 14-corporation
restructuring involving United States and foreign corporations,
a $25 million debt restructuring for the subsidiary of a foreign
listed company, performing financial statement audit for a
frozen food distributor with sales over $160 million, forensic
investigation for a local bank on a $50 million loan default, and
performing due diligence, tax and financial accounting planning
for acquisitions of businesses worth over $20 million.
Before he founded his firm in 1986, he was tax manager with
one of the world's largest international accounting firms and
was in charge of the firm's San Francisco office's biggest
international tax clients.
Mr. Sam has written articles that appeared in national tax
publications, lectured in a local university and before
professional groups and appeared on television shows
discussing taxation of foreign investments in the United States,
state income taxation, estate planning and real estate
transactions.
Mr. Sam holds a master degree in taxation and a bachelor
degree in commerce. He also holds the ABV (Accredited in
Business Valuation) credential and the CFF (Certified in
Financial Forensics) credential. Licensed to practice in the
states of California and New York, Mr. Sam is both a member
of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the
Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
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