Dr. Matt Liu is an integrated partner with Tsar & Tsai Law Firm and has been practicing law since 1997. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions, corporate, antitrust, insurance and reinsurance, labor and employment, cross-border transactions, foreign investment, personal data protection, syndicated loan and structured finance, infrastructure, and dispute resolution.

Dr. Liu has extensive experience in representing many multinational and local companies in their mergers & acquisitions in Taiwan. His experiences in this area includes conducting legal due diligence, drafting and negotiating transaction agreements, advising on the merger control, tax, environmental and employment issues, and obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals and permits.

Drawing on his experience serving as an officer with Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission before joining Tsar & Tsai, Dr. Liu has advised both domestic and multinational clients across a wide range of industry sectors on merger control, concerted action, unfair competition and false advertising issues. He has successfully represented clients from various industries to obtain antitrust clearance from Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission. He has also successfully represented clients in filing complaints with and defending them before Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission. Also, he has advised Taiwanese clients on cartel investigations in the EU and Korea, and has advised foreign clients on Taiwan cartel regulations.

Dr. Liu has profound experience in insurance and reinsurance areas, including assisting many foreign insurance and reinsurance companies to establish their Taiwan branches and advising them on their mergers and acquisitions in Taiwan, regulatory compliance issues and insurance/reinsurance contract review. He is also an active member of the Insurance Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei and has participated in the drafting of the Committee’s annual policy white paper and lobbying efforts.

Dr. Liu has represented many multinational and domestic clients in negotiation, settlement, mediation, litigation and arbitration of commercial, labor and construction disputes.

Dr. Liu represented HSBC in its general assumption of the assets, liabilities and business of the Chinese Bank. This deal won the award of “Winning Deals of the Year 2008” by Asian-Counsel and enabled to Tsar & Tsai win the award of “Taiwan Deal Firm of the Year 2008” by Asian Legal Business.

Dr. Liu has been a lecturer of the Taiwan Corporate Governance Association for many years and is a frequent speaker to many Taiwan-listed companies on extensive corporate governance issues, such as duties and responsibilities of directors and supervisors, insider trading, corporate governance of business groups, business risk management and corporate governance, and corporate governance and intellectual property.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Admitted to practice in Taiwan

Taiwan Patent Agent

EDUCATION:

National Taiwan University School of Law (LL.B. 1994)

University of Wisconsin Law School (MLI 1999; S.J.D. 2001)

MEMBERSHIPS:

Vice Chairman, Labor-Employer Relation Committee, R.O.C. Bar Association
Committee Member, Competition Law Committee, Taipei Bar Association
American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei
Taiwan Corporate Governance Association
Executive Supervisor, Healthcare Industry Development Association Across The Straight
Arbitrator, the R.O.C. Arbitration Association

PUBLICATIONS:

Product Liability Law - Taiwan Chapter, Product Liability in the Asia-Pacific (3rd edition), published by the Federation Press

Taiwan Money Laundering Law, published by Complinet

Bankable or Turndown? Reform of the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Legal Framework in Taiwan (S.J.D. dissertation)

LANGUAGES:

Mandarin Chinese, English