Charles Chongo

Co-owner Botea Charles Bridges, SRL Charles T. Chongo, CPA is the Managing Director and Founder of The Charles Bridge Associates (USA) & Botea Charles Bridge (Romania). Charles’ primary responsibility is to help clients structure and operate their international activities in the most efficient manner from a worldwide tax and administrative standpoint. Charles is an international tax specialist with over 23 years of principally Big 4 experience focusing on US and foreign international taxation matters, including tax planning for clients of all sizes and complexity, both privately owned and publicly traded, with respect to mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings. Charles has significant experience with respect to worldwide post merger integration, transaction tax, debt/leverage planning, intellectual property migration and cost sharing, supply chain management, transfer pricing and effective tax rate management planning. Charles has extensive experience in structuring foreign technology, manufacturing, trading and financial services operations (including the incubation, development, and transfer of technology offshore) in low-taxed Asian, Caribbean and European jurisdictions. He also has considerable hands on experience and expertise with the complex US Passive Foreign Investment Company Rules. Charles is one of a handful of tax specialists who also has significant experience and expertise in structuring both the corporate and individual aspects of expatriate secondment arrangements for expatriates worldwide. Charles has served clients in every major industrial category worldwide including: Oracle Corporation, Vodafone, Bally Inc., Coca Cola, Lightspeed Venture Partners, ON Semiconductor, Genomic Health Inc., TotalFina Elf, Citibank, Timken, Wrigley, GSK, ING Bank, Swedwood (Ikea), Bombardier, Stryker, Trinity Industries, Cisco Systems, & Lockheed Martin.