Janine Lin

Professional Information

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Janine Lin is a Partner of Innovatus Law. She is experienced in legal consultation, contract drafting and dispute resolution for capital market, merger & acquisition, and general corporate matters.

Janine assisted several Taiwanese enterprises in their Taiwan IPO and Taiwanese listed companies for cash capital increase and private placement. Janine also assisted several domestic or foreign enterprises in mergers and acquisitions, major asset divestures and joint venture investment structure planning either in Taiwan or offshore. In addition, Janine also frequently provided legal consultation services to domestic and foreign companies, represented many corporate and individual clients in civil/criminal, corporate, tax, labor and intellectual property law related litigations and arbitration, and obtained favorable results for clients.

Janine has provided variety of legal services to clients in energy and film and entertainment industries. In energy sector, she advised an international construction company on its infrastructure related litigations and potential disputes. She 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. In film and entertainment sector, Janine assisted an US film and entertainment company in planning the deal structure of its investment in Taiwan, and provided one-station corporate legal consultation services to an US paintball company.

Janine also represented high net-worth clients in many different occasions to deal with their cross-border estate inheritance cases, advise on the family asset planning matters, and handle several civil and criminal litigations arising from the family business disputes, enabling clients to obtain favorable court decisions or negotiation outcome.

Prior to joining Innovatus Law, Janine worked at LCS & Partners. She used to be the legal manager of a large listed electronic manufacturing company in Taiwan as well, dealing with projects involving divesting substantial off-shore assets/shareholdings, investment and M&A, civil, criminal and administrative disputes/litigations, compliance and corporate governance.

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”.

Janine is currently a member of the Taipei Bar Associations and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese and English.

Experience

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• Represented Visco Vision Inc. in its Taiwan IPO.
• Assisted domestic securities underwriters such as Yuanta Securities & Fubon Securities in connection with Taiwan IPOs.
• Assisted listed Taiwanese company in its application for securities offering and private placement.
• Assisted a Taiwanese Emerging Stock company and a foreign company in their Taiwan IPOs.
• Assisted an US film and entertainment company in planning the deal structure for its investment in Taiwan.
• Represented shareholders of a domestic internet startup to successfully sell their stakes to a Japanese public company.
• Represented a domestic medical aid equipment company to successfully acquire the Taiwan business of an international competitor.
• Assisted a large listed Taiwanese company in the closing of divesting its substantial off-shore assets with the deal size around USD 1.4 billion.
• Assisted a large listed Taiwanese company in dealing with its Investment Office’s investment and M&A projects.
• Represented a large Japanese company and its Taiwanese affiliates in a leniency filing at the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission.
• 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
• Assisted the representation of 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 U.S. counsel in representing a listed Taiwanese technology company in a lawsuit of damages filed in Massachusetts.
• 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.

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 Enterprise?, Perspectives on the Practice of Financial and Technological Laws, January 2015.