Formosan Brothers

Construction and real estate is one of Formosan Brothers’s core businesses. Sophia H Lelong and William Huang are their best known practitioners in the field. The practice’s services include the development, sale, lease and management of residential and commercial properties, as well as urban planning and real estate financing. In construction advice, the firm has rich experience with high-speed railways, rapid transit systems, offshore oil pipelines, shopping malls, government buildings, highways and bridges. Many of the firm’s attorneys have served as litigators, arbitrators or mediators on cases from Taiwanese construction projects.

Formosan Brothers regularly works on domestic and cross-border mergers, spin-offs, asset acquisitions, joint ventures, and business transfers in the steel, semiconductor, technology, medical, energy and power sectors. Lipu Lee is advising a German company on its divestment of its Taiwan subsidiaries to Chinese investors. The team is offering regulatory advice due to the Chinese investors’s involvement. Sophia Lelong‘s fluent Japanese language skills bring her a stable of Japanese mandates.

Formosan Brothers features dispute resolution veterans Dah-In Yeh and Chih-Poung Liou, who along with other litigators maintain a winning record in construction, employment, finance, and insurance cases. Industry specialists and peers also seek practice members to serve as arbitrators and mediators. The team represented the Executive Yuan’s Public Construction Committee in mediation between the committee and an international construction company.

Formosan Brothers is a strong player in IP and the technology, media and telecommunications sector. An IP team of more than 20 practitioners, including nine patent engineers, offers advisory, application, opposition, invalidation, litigation, technological evaluation, licensing negotiation, as well as partnering with government institutions on industry research. Peers think highly of Yvonne Lin, the practice head, due to her technical background and litigation skills. Japanese and Korean clients favour her to enforce their patents in Taiwan against local corporations.

Formosan Brothers is in high demand for its legal advice in the TMT sector, particularly in the TV network and movie industries. Yvonne Lin and Lipu Lee are its most prominent practitioners who advise on regulatory compliance, licensing, copyright and M&A transactions for mostly domestic companies. Lin is a qualified patent attorney and attorney-at-law, who practises IP, technology, and civil and commercial law.

Formosan Brothers’s full-range and high-quality of services in labour and employment are widely acknowledged. Their advice includes contract drafting, labour insurance, group agreement negotiation, contract termination of senior employees, visa applications for expatriates and class action dispute resolution. Senior partner Chih-Poung Liou and Sophia H Lelong are in demand with international companies to deal with contentious labour matters in their Taiwanese subsidiaries.