Innovatus Law

The firm: Innovatus Law is recognized as a leading business law firm in Taiwan. It represents clients in the areas of corporate and commercial deals, litigation, intellectual property, and personal data protection. The firm’s client base spans a broad range of industries, including public companies, family-owned manufacturing conglomerates, governments, high-net-worth individuals, and entrepreneurs.

Foreign entities doing business in Taiwan have limited options for legal representation. Few international law firms have offices in Taiwan and even fewer of them have full capacity to practice Taiwanese laws; local Taiwanese law firms often lack both the cross-border experience and language capabilities necessary to serve the needs of foreign clients.

The firm’s attorneys are seasoned in cross-border transactions and litigation, and bring a distinctive blend of high quality, decades of successful experience, intensity, and creativity to resolve legal challenges strategically and cost-efficiently for its clients. The boutique size of the firm, and the breadth of its practice capabilities, allows it to provide a multi-disciplinary approach in a cost-effective manner.

Main areas of practice
Capital markets: The firm’s capital markets practice focuses on initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary offerings by listing companies, and other financial products sold into the capital markets. The practice is founded on a full-service Taiwan securities law capability, complemented by local securities law expertise in each of the key financial centers. The firm provides practical, integrated legal advice covering the full spectrum of global capital-raising activities including public and private domestic and international offerings of traditional debt and equity securities and convertible and other derivative and structured securities.

Corporate: In addition to “traditional” practices such as cross-border mergers and acquisitions, foreign investments in Taiwan, joint venture formations, and general corporate advice, Innovatus Law’s corporate and deal services team also brings its expertise to specific niche segments that have been neglected by top-tier firms in Taiwan, such as early stage start-up financing, venture capital investment and financing, and international film/entertainment co-production and financing.

Litigation and dispute resolution: The firm’s litigation team regularly handles white-collar crimes, corporate control fights, and regulatory defense. The team’s expertise includes defending against criminal prosecutions, conducting internal investigations, handling securities-related litigation, and negotiating complex global settlements, oftentimes leveraging subject matter expertise in the firm’s other practice areas. The team has recently worked on a high-stake ICDR-AAA arbitration held in San Francisco among multinational companies, secured a winning award for the client with its ability to explain nuanced conceptual differences between US and Taiwan laws.

Intellectual property: The firm is involved in all aspects of intellectual property law,  specializing in key areas such as trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, and antitrust. The firm has an extended roster of clients across all creative and technology sectors, including film, television, music, publishing, video games, architecture, VR production, telecommunication, PCB, software, fabless IC design, and AI. The firm currently represents clients in some of the most high-profile antitrust and trade secret cases involving international companies.

Personal data protection: The personal data protection practice has unique expertise in helping Taiwan clients navigate the intricacies of the GDPR and local regulations for specific sectors. The firm’s cross-border, interdisciplinary team also has experience in deploying Taiwan Personal Protection Act and GDPR compliant modules for the financial, government, retail, computer manufacturer, and airline. The team offers regulatory counseling, designing appropriate notice and term according to the data flow of the clients. The team also assists clients in dealing with the reporting, damage mitigation, and public relations issues arisen in data breaches.