Company Law Firm of the Year Taiwan

Firm Profile

Established in 1974, Formosa Transnational (FT) has endeavoured in providing high-quality legal service, fostering social justice and advocating the rule of law. With the spirit of specialisation, teamwork and professionalism, FT always stands along with the clients, assisting companies, entrepreneurs, agencies and organizations, multinational or domestic, to plan ahead for their business operation and development, or to resolve various and myriad problems that clients may encounter from time to time. FT attorneys actively participate in the National Bar Association and Taipei Bar Association (three partners of this firm have served as the Presidents, and many others have served as Directors of both Associations), as well as Judicial Reform Foundation, Taiwan Law Society, to name but a few. Two of the founding partners, KC Fan and Henry Rai, were respectively appointed to serve as the Secretary General and the President of the Judiciary in 2003 and 2010 for their prominent reputation in the legal profession.

Chun-yih Cheng

Chun-yih Cheng is a senior partner in the corporate and financial services practice group of Formosa Transnational Attorneys at Law. His practice mainly relates to corporate and M&A (including legal due diligence exercise, antitrust clearance and related employment transfer), as well as financial services (both regulatory and transactional). He works very closely with international law firms in advising local and international clients with their cross-border investments, transactions and financing. He represents financial institutions from the UK, Germany, Japan and the USA, in addition to local ones, in their financial transactions and legal compliance in Taiwan. Mr Cheng was mandated by the

Taiwan government for certain research or legislative projects in respect of corporate and financial laws and regulations. He also authors and contributes articles in inter alia, banking and securities regulations. Mr Cheng is also an Assistant Professor teaching corporate, competition and financial services law in the

postgraduate studies programme at the School of Law, Soochow University in Taipei.

Areas of Expertise • Dispute Resolution

• Public Infrastructure & Governmental Procurement

• Corporate / M&A • Banking • Securities & Capital Markets • Maritime • Shipping • Insurance & Real Estate • Intellectual Property • Telecommunications and Internet

• Environmental Law & Green Regulations

• Employment & Taxation • Antitrust & Unfair Competition

Chun-yih Cheng notable Legal Work

Advising a famous Singaporean Company, an American gemological institute, an American telecommunication company, and a leading German bank, to establish a corporate presence, comply with foreign investment regulations, and arrange financial structures in Taiwan.

Representing a Swiss bank, a H.K. branch of a leading Chinese bank, one of the world's largest hedge fund managers based in US, a US-based hedge fund company in H.K., leading domestic banks, leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokers, and securities firms, in negotiations for various agreements in projects worth many millions of dollars and compliance checks for bank regulations and securities regulations.

Representing a global pharmaceutical company in a M&A, including due diligence, compliance checks, agreement negotiation and merger filing.

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Filing merger control for a Japanese leading high-tech corporation.

Representing a mobile phone company in liquidation with claims exceeding USD 400 million.

Advising a leading nickel company in China on the provisional seizure of a vessel hauling its cargo.

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