Janine Lin

Professional Information

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Janine Lin is a partner of Innovatus Law. Her practice at the firm includes legal consultation, contract drafting and dispute resolution for capital market, merger & acquisition (M&A), and general corporate matters.

Janine has advised clients in the energy industry on a wide array of legal issues. She offered legal advice on labor and construction related matters for a multinational conglomerate involved in major public construction projects in Taiwan. She has also represented an independent power plant in tax and anti-trust litigations, and advised on several legal issues including amendment to Taiwan Electricity Act, renewable energy development, and greenhouse gas emission regulation. She also assisted an international private equity fund in handling a dispute arising from its investment in a renewable energy site in Taiwan.

Janine has represented high net-worth clients in cross-border inheritance cases, providing advice on family asset planning. She has also handled several civil and criminal litigations arising from the family business disputes, enabling clients to obtain favorable judgments or negotiation outcome for her clients. Furthermore, Janine often provides legal interpretation and compliance consultation on Taiwanese regulations for both domestic and foreign companies. She has represented many corporate and individual clients in a variety of litigation and arbitration cases, covering civil and criminal, corporate law, labor law, and intellectual property rights, and obtained favorable judgments for her clients.

In the field of capital markets, Janine has represented and assisted numerous Taiwanese enterprises in their Taiwan IPO and secondary offerings such as cash capital increase and private placement. In the realm of M&A and investment deals, Janine has represented both domestic and foreign enterprises in mergers and acquisitions, major asset divestures and joint venture investment structure planning in Taiwan and oversea. She regularly offers legal consultation and advice to large enterprises in various types of investment transactions, including investments in startups and private equity funds.

Prior to joining Innovatus Law, Janine worked at LCS & Partners. She also served as the general counsel of a large public company in Taiwan, where she handled significant offshore asset divesture, investment projects, M&A, civil and criminal litigation, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance projects. Janine’s experience spans both litigation and non-litigation cases, and her experience as an in-house counsel, allows her to approach clients’ legal issues in a holistic way, providing sound advice and feasible solutions to meet clients’ needs.

While pursuing her LL.M. degree at NTU Law School, Janine was selected by the NTU Law School as an exchange student representative at University of Washington School of Law in Seattle, WA. In June 2020, she obtained her second LL.M. degree from Stanford University, mainly focusing “Corporate Governance & Practice”. She was the only Taiwanese student in the “Corporate Governance & Practice” program that year.

Janine is currently a member of the Taipei Bar Associations, a lecturer for the corporate governance courses organized by the Taiwan Corporate Governance Association, and an independent director for domestic listed companies.

Dispute Negotiation & Resolution/Litigation/Arbitration Representations

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• Advised an international construction company on its infrastructure related litigations and potential disputes.
• Represented an independent power plant in tax and anti-trust litigations, and advised on several legal issues including amendment to Taiwan Electricity Act, renewable energy development, and greenhouse gas emission regulation.
• Represented high net-worth clients in cross-border estate inheritance cases and civil and criminal litigations arising from the family business disputes.
• Advised a listed U.S. company in an arbitration of damages arising from delayed closing of an acquisition pending before the American Arbitration Center in San Francisco, California.
• Assisted a non-guaranteed creditor to successfully obtain the court’s decision to revoke the prior court’s approval of the debtor company’s reorganization application.
• Represented a large Japanese company and its Taiwanese affiliates in a leniency filing at the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission.

Capital Markets Representations

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• Represented a Taiwanese medical device manufacturer in its IPO submission to Taipei Exchange in the capacity of lead issuer counsel.
• Represented domestic Securities underwriters in connection with Taiwan IPO projects in the capacity of underwriter counsel.
• Advised listed Taiwanese companies in their applications for securities offering and private placement.

Mergers and Acquisitions Representations

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• Represented a Taiwanese public company to successfully sell the shares in its offshore subsidiary.
• Represented a domestic leather accessories manufacturer to successfully acquire the whole shares of its US customer.
• Advised a large listed Taiwanese company in the closing of divesting its substantial offshore assets with the deal size around USD 1.4 billion.

Private Equity / Investment Deal Services Representations

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• Advised a Taiwanese conglomerate with respect to its decision to invest in private equity funds.
• Represented an US entertainment production company in planning the deal structure for its investment in Taiwan.
• Advised a Taiwanese public company in dealing with its Investment Office’s investment and deal projects.

Publications

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Thesis (in Chinese)

• The Re-evaluation of the Punitive Damages in Taiwan: Focusing on Article 51 of the Consumer Protection Act, National Taiwan University master thesis, January 2014.

Other Columns (in Chinese)

• Janine Lin, The Poison of Corporate Governance in Disguise: Legal Persons as Corporate Directors or Supervisors under the Taiwan Company Act, Commercial Times, May 17, 2018.
• Derek T. C. Sun and Janine Lin, Insight of the Amendment to the Electricity Act, Commercial Times, October 7, 2016.
• Co-author, How to Successfully File Cartel Leniency under Competition Laws for an Enter- prise?, Perspectives on the Practice of Financial and Technological Laws, January 2015.