A.. J. Haas

A.J. Haas is the Managing Member of Perennial Fund Services. He has serviced the global alternative investment fund and investment adviser community for approximately twenty years with international public accounting firms such as Ernst & Young, Deloitte and BDO. Mr. Haas has extensive experience helping clients with a host of core services, including fund administration, fund accounting, financial statement preparation, U.S. tax compliance, U.S. FATCA compliance, choice of entity consulting, ASC 740 reporting, foreign entity reporting and IRS audit representation. His clients include domestic funds, offshore funds, master-feeder funds, fund of funds, unit trusts, umbrella trusts, investment advisors, general businesses and high net-worth individuals.

In the past several years, we have seen a large number of U.S. institutional and high-net worth individuals invest in Asian-advised hedge funds and private equity special purpose vehicles. Mr. Haas works with Asian-based investment advisors to create fund structures that maximize tax-efficiency for their U.S. investors and helps them understand the important tax issues that drive the U.S. investor. He has specialized knowledge dealing with foreign partnerships and passive foreign investment companies. Mr. Haas services clients throughout the U.S., Cayman, BVI, Tokyo, China, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Mr. Haas holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Rutgers Law School, a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Fordham University and an LL.M. from the University of San Diego. He is a Certified Public Accountant in New York and California, a member of the New York State Bar, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Hedge Fund Association.