KPMG Law in Taiwan

The firm

KPMG’s Global Legal Services Network provides access to more than 1500 lawyers in over 74 countries. All its lawyers adhere to the same high standards.

In Taiwan, 安侯法律事務所 (KPMG Law Firm) is a full-service law firm, assembling a unique team of highly qualified legal professionals in our key service areas. Currently our professional team is led by our partners, Jerry Cho (as managing partner), Alan Jih,  Lawrence Ong, Eugenia Chuang, Kelvin Chung, James Huang, and Victor Su. Our firm has forged solid and close strategic alliances with the established and reputable accounting, tax and financial advisory teams of KPMG Taiwan.  KPMG Law Firm collaborates with all of KPMG Taiwan’s professional teams towards the common objective of supporting clients to compete in today’s fast-changing global marketplace with our total solutions combining integrated legal, accounting, financial advisory, and tax advisory services, in addition to our traditional legal practices.

Areas of practice

• M&A Practice, including domestic and cross-border transactions such as mergers, share swaps, equity investment, asset transfers, joint venture, group restructuring, PE/VC formation and investments/exits, etc.
• General Corporate and Commercial Practice, including company law matters, securities law compliance, labour law compliance, fair trade law compliance, contract drafting and negotiation.
• Capital Market Practice, including Taiwan and U.S. securities law advice and a full range of securities offering transactions, such as Taiwan IPOs and TDRs by foreign issuers, overseas offerings of stocks and bonds, SPAC listings.
• Renewables Practice, including renewable energy investment structure planning and legal consultation, renewable projects legal due diligence, acquisitions, financing, site construction and operation contract drafting and negotiation.
• Banking and Finance Practice, including corporate financing, syndicated loans, project financing, ship/aircraft leasing and financing, derivatives transactions, regulatory compliance advisory, license application and international syndication.
• Private Wealth Practice, including full range of legal counselling for families and individuals on estate and succession plan matters.
• Tax Law Practice, including to support the tax team of KPMG in Taiwan on every legal aspect of tax matters.
• Intellectual Property Practice, including copyright, patent & trade secret licensing / counselling/litigation, patent prosecution, fair trade & unfair competition/anti-trust laws, information technology law & internet related laws, electronic commerce related laws.
• Dispute Resolution Practice, including commercial litigation and arbitration, coordination for cross-border litigation and commercial dispute resolution, governmental dispute proceedings, white-collar crimes, corporate fraud investigation, litigation support advice on US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
• Privacy Practice, including privacy laws consultation, data mapping and risk analysis, development of data protection policies, and data protection officer outsourcing.
• Blockchain Practice, including legal and taxation consultation for virtual tokens (utility token, STO and NTF), establishment, operation, and management of virtual token exchanges, AML/CFT regulation,  and virtual token trading platforms.
• Other practice areas such as antitrust laws, government procurement and public construction projects (including BOT), real estate investments.