Labor Issues

Review target companies' labor practices for legal compliance in connection with due diligence for investment or acquisition transactions.

Advise numerous multinational companies on adapting their internarional labor practices to company with local labor laws and practices.

Advise on mass layoff, termination and severance issues related to closure of local operations of global photographic imaging company.

Conduct in-house training at local branches and subsidiaries for key executives and employees of a multi-national Japanese company on fundamental labor law issues and update global employee handbook for recent revisions in local law and advise on legality of new global company policies.

Advise numerous multinational companies on transition to newly implemented pension plan rules in Taiwan.

Represented the first British National to become a naturalized citizen of Taiwan.

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.

Advise global photographic imaging company on pension fund restructuring.

Represent multi-national company in actions against employees for breach of non-competition and confidentiality covenants.

Advice worldwide leader in silicon timing devices on civil and criminal sanctions against its former general manager for fraudulent accounting practices, personal income tax evasion and severance benefit disputes.

Represent multi-national manufacturer of athletic footwear in civil and criminal sanctions against former general managers in Taiwan and China for recovery of kickbacks and embezzled funds.

Represent global photographic imaging company in labor mediation with dismissed employees

Represent former manager of a global PC peripherals manufacturer in an action against the employer for wrongful termination.

Represent Taiwan branch of a U.S. public company in litigation brought by a disgruntled employee for disputed severance benefits.

Represent U.S. public company in the WLAN industry in connection with labor force restructuring issues in connection with the acquisition of a private high technology company.