Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• English
• Mandarin

Lawyer Overview

William Hsu has broad experience in planning, structuring, and implementing many projects involving international investment, joint ventures, strategic alliances, technology transfers, and other corporate transactions for multinational corporations in high-tech, telecommunications, consumer products, petrochemicals, financial services, and venture capital industries. Since the liberalization of Taiwan's mobile telecommunications market, he has advised on the formation of several joint ventures to bid for the licenses of cellular phone and paging services.

William also has extensive experience in corporate finance and securities transactions, including offerings of GDRs and other securities under Rule 144A and Regulation S, restructuring of a mutual fund to be eligible for listing on the NYSE, and structuring private placement of offshore derivative products. He also has substantial experience in the areas of structured finance, mergers and acquisitions, and syndicated loans. He participated in the design of an innovative equity issuance having debt characteristics with less cost to finance a semiconductor wafer fabrication facility of a strategic alliance formed by multinational corporations. In addition, he has advised on various employees stock ownership plans and assisted with the establishment of offshore investment funds and investments by foreign institutional investors in Taiwan-listed securities.

William has been very active in both business and legal communities. He co-chaired the Telecommunications Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei and has lectured on technology transfer and international franchise at several executive programs of the China Productivity Center. He is a member of New York State Bar Association and is fluent in Mandarin and English.

Areas of Practice

• Intellectual Property
• Licensing & Technology Transactions
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• M&A
• Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances

Representative Cases

• Acquisition of interest in Kuang Chuan Group
• Acquisition of Kampro Technology
• Acquisition of Worldwide Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.
• Alliance with SingTel
• Merger with TSMC-Acer Manufacturing

West Practice Categories

Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Copyrights, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Intellectual Property Law, International Intellectual Property, Joint Ventures, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Patents, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Technology Licensing, Trade Associations, Trade Dress, Trade Secrets, Trademarks

Bar Admissions

• New York

Education

• Nat'l Taiwan U - Taipei

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Taipei 106, Taiwan

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