Liu, Chung-Ping

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• English
• Mandarin
• Taiwanese

Lawyer Overview

Chung-Ping Liu's practice involves a broad range of commercial and financing transactions, including lending and structured finance, real estate transactions, M&A, and capital markets. He represents clients in syndicated and secured lending, various financial transactions such as risk participation, factoring, and financing leases, IPO and debt and equity securities offerings, securitization, real estate acquisitions and financings, acquisition and servicing of distressed assets, and financial institution M&A.

Chung-Ping represented Fubon Financial Holding in its $600 million acquisition of ING's Taiwanese life insurance business and Shinsei Bank in its joint venture with Capital Target Limited to acquire controlling interest in Jih Sun Financial Holding, the first foreign takeover of a financial holding company in Taiwan. He also advises foreign issuers in their Taiwan IPOs.

He has substantial experience representing foreign investors, including Capmark, CLSA, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch, in their acquisition and financing of real properties in Taiwan. He also advises Citibank, Fubon, HSBC, Shinsei Bank, and other local and foreign banks on their derivative transactions, legal compliance, and regulatory matters.

Chung-Ping has published numerous articles in Economic Daily, Commercial Times, Deloitte Newsletter, and other Taiwanese publications. He has lectured at National Taiwan University and Taiwan's Securities and Future Institute.

Areas of Practice

• Banking & Finance
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• M&A

Representative Cases

• Allied Material issues $120 million of Zero Coupon Convertible Bonds in a Regulation S offering
• Ambac Assurance serves as guarantor in issuance of notes by Hsinchu International Mortgage Loan 1 Limited
• Capxon completes IPO of HK $200 million of Equity Shares on Main Board of Hong Kong Stock Exchange, underwritten by Mega Capital (Asia) Company Limited
• Chinatrust Commercial Bank acts as underwriter and initial purchaser in $120 million of Zero Coupon Convertible Bonds in a Regulation S offering by Ya Hsin Industrial Corporation , (2009)
• Diebold acquires ATM-related businesses from Taiwan distributor Licent Information Technology
• Fubon Acquires Taiwan Life Unit from ING for $600 million
• HannStar Display issues $250 million of Zero Coupon Convertible Bonds in Rule 144A and Regulation S offering
• HannStar issues $301 million of Global Depositary Shares in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering
• Industrial Bank of Taiwan arranges securitization to finance the expansion of Chi Mei Optoelectronics
• Macquarie Securities underwrites $300 million of GDRs in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering by Epistar
• Merrill Lynch Real Estate acquires three Taipei industrial properties, with subsequent sale-leaseback
• Morgan Stanley completes a Regulation S offering by Shin Kong Financial Holding Co. for $260 million of Zero Coupon Convertible Bonds
• S&P acts as rating agent in JSB Taiwan Auto One securitization transaction
• Shinsei Bank and Capital Target Ltd. acquire control of Jih Sun Financial , (2009)
• Shinsei Bank Limited acquires 35% interest in Jih Sun Financial for $382 million

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Commercial Banks, Commercial Leasing, Corporate Governance, Credit Unions, Debtor/Creditor, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, International Banking, Joint Ventures, Lending & Secured Transactions, Limited Liability Companies, Loan Workouts, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Public Finance, Reorganizations, Savings & Thrifts, Shareholders' Rights, State & Municipal Bonds & Financing, Trade Associations, Venture Capital

Bar Admissions

• New York

Education

• Boston University
• Tunghai University

Address

8th Floor
2 Tun Hwa South Road, Section 2
Taipei 106, Taiwan

Phones

886.2.2704.6808 (Business Phone)

Faxes

886.2.2704.6791 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com