Facts and figures

Territory

Partners

Client service & practice support staff

Total

Chinese Mainland

18,636

19,417

Hong Kong SAR

267

4,176

4,443

Macau SAR

1

87

88

Taiwan region

132

3,735

Singapore

154

3,830

3,984

1902

Arthur Lowe registers on 2 June as Hong Kong's first professional accountant. 

1903

Joseph Bingham joins Lowe.

1906

Lowe & Bingham opens a Shanghai office on Museum Road.

1909

Frederick Matthews of Shanghai becomes a partner of the firm, now called Lowe, Bingham & Matthews.

1935

Hong Kong partners buy out Matthews' share of Hong Kong practice.  Hong Kong and Shanghai become "separate but parallel practices".

1946

Lowe, Bingham & Thomsons is formed in Shanghai, works closely with Price Waterhouse & Co.  Hong Kong firm becomes correspondent for PW.

1962

Sanford Y.T. Yung registers Sanford Yung & Co on 1 March. 

1965

Sanford Yung & Co. becomes a member of Coopers & Lybrand.

1974

LB&M becomes a member of PW International.

1979-1992 

Both PW and C&L enter the PRC under the Open Door Policy.  PW reopens in Shanghai.

1998

International merger between PW and C&L results in formation of PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong.

2002

PwC firms in Hong Kong SAR and Chinese Mainland merge and then combine with the Hong Kong SAR and Chinese Mainland practices of Andersen.

2008

The collaboration of the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong SAR and Singapore firms.

2010

The collaboration of the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore and Taiwan region firms.