With nearly 30 years of experience, Tommy Chen is recognized as a leading M&A and corporate governance lawyer in Taiwan, having led several groundbreaking M&A deals of significance in Taiwan, many of which involved first-of-its-kind issues or structures. His practice focuses on cross-border M&As, joint ventures, hostile takeovers, private equity, venture capital, IPOs, restructurings, and reorganizations. He advises companies in a wide variety of industry sectors, including automotive, semiconductor, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, energy, media and telecommunications, transportation, banking and insurance, construction, consumer products, and multilevel distribution. He also has substantial experience in and regularly counsels on Taiwan antitrust and fair trading issues and has advised on regulatory compliance issues for multinational companies in Taiwan. Thomas Chen has served on the boards of various public companies, civic organizations, and charitable foundations since 2002. He is also frequently invited to speak at forums and workshops and has written many articles on Taiwan M&A and corporate governance issues. He has been teaching M&A courses at the graduate school of law for many years in Taiwan.
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The Legislative Yuan of Taiwan has passed new amendments to its Fair Trade Law ("FTL"). One of the amendments adopts a leniency program for cartel investigations, which has been a common practice in the U.S., EU, and other jurisdictions for a number of years. Another raises the monetary (...)
