Nicholas V. Chen - Significant Recent Transactions

  • Represent multinational/listed companies on China projects including:
    • Development of complex real estate projects (themed projects, sports centers, cultural centers, retail, hotels, service apartments, office towers).
    • Acquisition of a township village chemical enterprise in Ningbo, Zhejiang.
    • Joint venture with foreign majority media buying operation in Shanghai for UK plc.
    • Joint venture water theme park in Guangzhou, Guangdong
    • Joint venture in mining equipment in Taiyuan, Shaanxi
    • Distribution center for tire repair equipment in Songjiang, Jiangsu
    • Multiple joint ventures in chemical industry in Jiangsu province and Shangha
    • Establishment of cyber-tower in Pudong, Shanghai
    • Manufacturing joint venture for largest Taiex pharmaceutical company in Suzhou, Jiangsu
    • Video chain store franchise operations in Shanghai/Beijing
    • Strawboard manufacturing and related biomass power station in Shandong
    • Capital increase and structuring of PRC lottery operations
    • Numerous market entry and operational expansions in high tech (information, nano-technology, silicon and telecom), chip design, computer peripherals, machinery, professional service industries (executive search and management training and consulting) in coastal China
    • Cross border restructuring and capital increase of training services company in Shanghai.
  • Represent multinational PRC companies operating abroad in media, import/export, steel and numerous industrial sectors.
  • Represent multinational/listed companies in their contract manufacturing and OEM operations to lower their price points in services in various IT, broad band telecom component sectors.
  • Represent multinational telecom groups on corporate and regulatory telecom issues in China and Taiwan including frame relay, VOIP, lease structures, consortium building and bidding on GSM (Shanghai), GSM/PCS (Taiwan), CDMA (Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, Guangzhou and Hebei), digital satellite TV (Taiwan), terrestrial TV (Taiwan), cable TV (Taiwan), conditional access, WLAN, broadband, airborne broadband, a wide variety of lobbying, contract manufacturing, licensing and contract matters, and regulatory structuring.
  • Represent new economy technology, biotechnology, media and IT companies, and venture capital groups in full range of transactions including silicon-based deals, digital satellite TV, terrestrial TV, NIH biochemical processes, gene-based and nutriceutical deals, ISP, ICP, data centers, portals, vertical industry virtual markets, SCM, ASP and various ecommerce deals in Taiwan and China. This work includes start-up and mature company representations, financings, private placements, corporate restructurings, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and strategic matters.
  • Represent numerous NYSE and Tokyo-listed lease and finance companies on operating lease structures for over 45 aircraft in China including corporate, tax and regulatory advice.
  • Represent NYSE consumer products company in anti-counterfeiting program (non-administrative) including criminal prosecutions and convictions, media, lobbying, law reform and strategic planning for full national enforcement program; Japanese multinational in strategic planning for anti-counterfeiting in US/Greater China triangle; German multinational industrial company in Greater China; multinational peripherals company in their anti-counterfeiting program in Jiangsu; US tobacco brand owner in anti-counterfeiting program to stem exports to the US; NYSE petrochemical company in enforcing their judgments to protect proprietary processes.
  • Represent NYSE utility in closing fossil power stations in Guangdong (2) and Hubei; Scandinavian utility in wind power in Shantou, Guangdong; NYSE company as architect/engineer on Lungmen Nuclear Power Station (Taiwan); international consortium in their biomass power station in Qingdao, Shandong.
  • Represent both buyers and sellers in wide variety of mergers and acquisitions including acquisition of Taiwan-wide renal therapy business for Baxter; sale of largest Taiwan cookie company to Nabisco; purchase of shares in Taiwan's largest cable TV company by Capital Group; acquisition of interests in telecom and new economy companies in China; LBO sale of foreign-owned PRC based industrial lighting company with major export markets; sale of controlling interest in premium ice cream business.
  • Represent technology companies on full range of licensing, intellectual property and know-how protection including bio-life processes (Canada), IT, digital conditional access (France), designs, patents etc in the converging telecom/media/IT space in Greater China.
  • Represent multinational companies in the strategic planning and re-designing of their anti-counterfeiting programs as well as implementing practical solutions in consumer products, tobacco, machinery and equipment and high technology areas including enforcement actions (criminal) and litigation.
  • Represent multinational companies in market access and government procurement matters in transportation, media, environmental, power, telecom and other sectors.
  • Design trade secret protection program for numerous U.S.-based private automobile part manufacturing companies for their operations in China.
  • Advise multi-national, public semiconductor company on strategies to handle trade secret theft, intellectual property infringement and industrial espionage by its major competitor in China and Taiwan.
  • Represent NYSE-listed company in acquisition of China-based fire detection equipment company.
  • Represent NASDAQ-listed semiconductor packaging and testing company in its acquisition of a Hsingchu-based private company.
  • Represent Japanese private equity firms in its acquisition of a Keelung-based inverter manufacturer