Dr. Edgar Chen is a partner with Tsar & Tsai Law Firm and has over 20 years of experience in litigation. Prior to joining Tsar & Tsai in 1997, Edgar was a judicial officer for more than 10 years. He had served as the public prosecutor of Taipei District Court, Shi-lin District Court, Pan-chiao District Court and Jin-men District Court and a judge with Taipei District Court. Between 1993 and 1995, Edgar served as the Executive Secretary of the Civil Code Amendment Commission of the Ministry of Justice responsible for proposing and drafting amendment to the Taiwan Civil Code.

Having served as a public prosecutor and a judge, Edgar brought to his private practice his familiarity with the court procedures and prosecution strategies. Edgar specializes in corporate, employment, construction and intellectual property rights related dispute resolution.

Edgar’s representative cases include representing numerous internationally renounced high tech companies on patent right and licensing related disputes, construction companies on construction defects and customer disputes, directors and ranking officers of publicly traded companies on criminal allegations of insider trading, securities law violations, breach of trust and breach of fiduciary duties, a commercial bank on customer claim and investment disputes and various corporations on employee disputes.

ADMITTED:

Taiwan

EDUCATION:

Fu-Jen Catholic University law School (LL.B. 1980)

National Taiwan University Law School (LL.M. 1983)

University of Michigan Law School (LL.M. 1993)

National Taiwan University Law School (Ph.D. 1994)

MEMBERSHIPS:

Taipei Bar Association

PUBLICATIONS:

The Efficiency of Compulsory Performance and Monetary Compensation

The Economic Analysis of the law of Contract

LANGUAGES:

Mandarin Chinese, English