Riccardo Benussi is a Manager on the International Business Advisory team for the Shanghai office of Dezan Shira & Associates. Riccardo assists foreign invested companies from Europe, North and South America with their investments in China. Riccardo’s areas of expertise include setting up of wholly foreign-owned enterprises and representative offices, and trademark filing in China. His industry experience includes international food and beverage, manufacturing, and high-tech. Riccardo also co-manages the Italian Desk with Dezan Shira & Associates’ Managing Partner, Alberto Vettoretti.

Prior to joining Dezan Shira & Associates, Riccardo Benussi worked on the trademark team at one of Asia’s largest IP law firms after gaining experience at a large Italian-based IP advisory firm. Most recently, Riccardo was the legal consultant for a Sino-American construction company based in Shanghai.

Riccardo was previously a post-graduate fellow with the Italian Trade Agency based in Rome, Shanghai Tong Ji University and Beijing. The course focused on Intellectual Property management and internationalization for SMEs. Riccardo holds a bachelor’s degree in Intellectual Property and East Asian Law from the University of Bologna. He is fluent in Italian, English, German and Spanish and is proficient in Chinese.

Ivy Gu is the manager of the audit team at the Shanghai offices of Dezan Shira & Associates. She assists clients in the areas of financial audit, annual audit (including China GAAP, US GAAP, and IFRS standards), internal financial review, due diligence and internal control review.
Before joining Dezan Shira & Associates in November 2013, Ivy Gu was a project manager at BDO China. Ivy graduated from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom with a master's in finance and management. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), and a member of the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CICPA).