Leading Cases
● We successfully represented our client Mr. Huang, the prior branch manager of New York Branch, Mega International Bank, to obtain a full acquittal judgment in the defending of high-profile insider-trading criminal case concerning USD180 million fine imposed by NYDFS.
● We successfully represented our client Wafer Works Corporation to obtain full prevailing judgements in both the first and second instance against United Renewable Energy Co., Ltd. in a civil lawsuit concerning a contract dispute of a substantial solar grade polysilicon purchase agreement at the value of around NTD 1 billion.
● We successfully represented our client Ms. Teng, the prior manager of Singfor Life Insurance Company, to obtain a full not-to-indict decision from the Taipei Prosecutors’ Office in the defending of a high profile violation of Insurance Act criminal case concerning Singfor Life’s investment of Taiwan Styrene Monomer Corporation.
● We successfully represented our client A&B Chemical Corporation to obtain a full prevailing arbitrational award against Yancheng Super Chemical Technology Co., Ltd. in an arbitration proceeding concerning a cross-border contract dispute of 2,000 tons of acetone.
● We successfully represented our client Ms. Lin, prior CFO of Gobo Group to obtain a full not-to-indict decision from the Taipei Prosecutors’ Office in the defending of a criminal breach of trust case relating to a corporate control dispute.
● We successfully represented our client LITE-ON Technology Corporation to achieve favorable settlement with a major chain convenience store in a patent dispute concerning Multi Media Kiosk machines.
● We successfully represented our client United Microelectronics Corporation to pursue criminal charges concerning infringement of semi-conductor manufacturing trade secrets against its prior R&D staff.
Civil Disputes
From minor consumer, traffic disputes to substantial real property, testamentary succession actions, it is very difficult for lay persons, especially foreigners and immigrants who may not fully comprehend Chinese, to understand the mind of the judges and the operation of Taiwan judicial system. It is even more chilling to the civil dispute clients by knowing that the outcome of the litigation might ruin their very own life by the indifference and stone-hearted judicial officers, when they see those judgments of controversial cases occasionally reported by the press and media.
The truth is that our laws will not protect bad guys, it also might not able to properly protect good persons, but it will always protect the ones who know the laws. Our lawyers have more than a decade of intensive experience in handling civil disputes. We know every case is the urgent matter to the upmost importance to anyone of our clients. We are passionate, and take our clients’ matter as our own. We always analyze the facts and issues to the detail, consider every tiny peace of evidence, work out the most adequate strategy for you, so that you may have the confidence to make the right choice to protect your right. You will never be alone in the way of civil disputes, as you know you don’t have to worry, because we’ve got your back!
Criminal Disputes
If a lay person never attended any court procedure will be nervous for a civil litigation, the criminal clients suddenly facing search, seizure, summon, even under arrest will be ten times worse that the civil clients.
The truth is that the Criminal Procedure Law and the presumption of innocence principle may not be able to fully protect the criminal defendants. Only those defendants know their rights will earn their innocence by providing critical evidence to critical facts to clear his/her name. Our lawyers successfully defended our clients in one and another complicated and substantial criminal cases to obtain not to indict, deferred indictment or acquittal judgments for our clients. We will let you know how the criminal judicial officers think, and we will uphold your lawful right to make reasonable defending strategy, so that you will be properly armed to face the national power of accusation from the criminal judicial system in a fair trial. Don’t worry, we’ve got your back!
Investment and Commercial Disputes
To individuals and organizations, investment activities and commercial transactions are the keys to maintain business operation. However, if things will go wrong, wealth and even the continuing operation of the business will be affected or even stopped.
The truth is that there are risks in investment activities, and the business might not always be safe and sound. When thing will go wrong, you will need a solid legal team to assist you to draw a fall back plan to help you asserting your legal rights and mitigating the losses as soon as possible. Our lawyers not only familiar with relevant financial and commercial laws, but more importantly, by our past experience in assisting many of our financial and business clients, including but not limited to AIG Credit Card (Taiwan), Zurich Insurance Company (Taiwan), ASUS, Lite-On, TSMT, Wafer Works, UMC, Benq-Qisda, to handle financial compliance, investment and business disputes, we know the logic behind the deals business operation. We will not only win the cases for you, but will also think out of the boxes to help you resolve the disputes in the most efficient way, so that you may stay calm and go back to make money soon. Don’t worry, we’ve got your back!
Financial, Corporate, Cross-border Fraud Cases
What distinct our firm to the others is our unique practice and abundant experience in handling sophisticated and substantial finance, corporate and cross-border fraud cases, which only very few lawyers may practice in this specific criterion.
The truth is that the old-fashioned corporate fraud case by moving money from directly from the corporate treasury vault is basically extinct. The contemporaneous finance and corporate fraud cases are built upon layers of complicated, and usually involving cross-border factors with multiple overseas specific purpose vehicles, transactions. From our past experience in handling PEWC actions (the Enron case in Taiwan), Singfor Life Insurance actions and Megabank actions, both civil and criminal, we know it take far beyond a seasoned lawyer to handle or even to understand substantial finance, corporate and cross-border fraud cases. Only the ones like us with real combat experience in handling such kind of cases may properly blend the abilities of abundant court activities experience, well financial supervisory and compliance experience, good knowledge in finance market and business accounting principles, good English comprehensive ability and well team cooperation experience with domestic and international professionals, such as lawyers and accountants, may be equipped with the mandatory capability to handle complicated finance, corporate and cross-border fraud cases.
Contract Drafting, Review and Investment Legal Consultancy
There are numerous international and domestic investment and business transactions. The only effective way to deal with finance, investment and business disputes is to adopt solid legal risk assessments before a deal, and arrange the legal rights and obligation carefully in the transactional contracts.
The truth is that in deed to the business entities, the core businesses are investment and commercial arrangements. However, one deal goes sour and get into dispute may easily ruin the result of ten other successful deals, or might even jeopardize the on-going of an organization. Therefore, it is imperative to adequately assess the legal risk and draft, review the contract before doing important transactions. But for general private individuals or small business organizations, it might be impractical to have your own army of internal legal team to properly handle the legal risk assessment and contract drafting/reviewing tasks. Our lawyers are good in laws and English and usually performed legal assessments based upon the Taiwan laws for our foreign clients. We know the basic principle for business activities, and the purpose for the carefully reviewing of any contract is to facilitate the success of the deal, but not to add new problems by nitpicking the trivial issues in contract. With our lawyers to attend to your legal risk assessment and contract controlling works, you can stay calm and make money without the need to worrying about the legal matter. Don’t worry, we’ve got your back!
Residency and Labor Laws
It is the basic need for everyone to live in peace and work happily. If there will be trouble in one’s job, one’s living will have problem; if there will be disturbance in one’s residential environment, one’s sleep will be affected. But as labor fairs and condominium and building matters always involve complicated conflicts and rights protection between employers and employees, inhabitants and the management committee, there are numerous byzantine laws regulating the labor and condominium matters, which are confusing but can’t be ignored by any lay persons.
Our lawyers are engaged by corporate, employee clients and the management committees of large scale complex buildings to handle labor and condominium and building laws matters. With our lawyers to provide professional advices and to assess legal risks for you, you may be rest assured that all your labor and condominium, building administrative matters will be fully attended. Don’t worry, we’ve got your back!
Fair Trade Act and Administrative Disputes
Another practice that distinct our firm to most of the local law firms is our Fair Trade Act and administrative dispute resolution practice.
Our firm had been engaged by famous Hong Kong listed business corporate consortium to analyze potential legal risks under Taiwan Fair Trade Act and relevant administrative disputes procedure for them to invest in Taiwan. We also represent famous local electronics groups, including ASUS and HTC, to seek compensation against foreign major capacitor manufacturers in price-fixing cases. Fair Trade Act and administrative litigations involve complicated technical calculation and judgment, it is totally different from general court room activities. With our past experience in successfully assisting domestic and internal clients to advise and to handle complicated anti-trust and price-fixing cases, we may help you to control legal risks concerning Fair Trade Act and administrative disputes effectively.