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Chung-chiang LaiManaging Partner
E-mail: chungchiang@tmdclaw.com.tw
TEL: +886-2-8369-1380#105

Chung-chiang Lai has been continuously practicing law since 1997, specializing in corporate financing, corporate mergers and acquisitions, ownership disputes, company reorganization and bankruptcy, securities and exchange, anti-trust and unfair competition, civil and commercial cases, criminal defense, administrative relief and constitutional interpretation for tax cases. With over two decades of experience in public law, civil law, criminal law, and commercial law, along with a strong ability for comprehensive problem diagnosis and analysis, Chung-chiang Lai is able to earn the trust of clients, whether serving as legal counsel for small and medium-sized enterprises or publicly traded companies, as well as financial institutions.

In both the legal practice and civil rights movement, Attorney Lai makes effective use of overall perspective, strategic analysis and negotiation skills to achieve successful resolutions in many major legal disputes. Attorney Lai has been involved in domestic financial crisis company reorganization case in 1998, cases of provisional injunction of telecommunications operator licenses in 2003, election litigation in 2004, the Fair Trade Commission's major website merger and acquisition consolidation case in 2007, crisis management for fixed network operators under pressure from foreign banks in 2007, the legislation of the Special Guard Service Acts in 2012, the controversies surrounding the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement in 2014, Amendment to Article 5-3 of the Act Governing Relations between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area in 2019, as well as the battle for the ownership of local enterprises in 2020.

  • Education

    Department of Law, National Taiwan University
    Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School

  • Experience

    Passed the bar Examination (1996)
    Served as Consulting Expert, the Bankruptcy Law Research and Revision Committee, the Judicial Yuan
    Researcher on "Research on the Single Code of Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy" commissioned by the Council for Economic Development and Development (2004)
    Researcher on " the Planning of Bank Cleanup Operations" commissioned by the Deposit Insurance Corporation (2007)
    Researcher on "Commissioned Plan for the Legislative Review of the Business Mergers and Acquisitions Act " commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (2005)
    Researcher on " Legal Research on Merger and Acquisition Structures of Financial Institutions (Including Financial Holding Companies) " commissioned by the Banking Bureau (2007)
    Researcher on the “Research on the privatization process of branches (divisions) of government corporation and related methods of stock conversion for public shareholders —Taiwan Sugar Corporation as an Example” commissioned by the Council for Economic Planning And Development (2003)
    Researcher on "Comparative Study on the Management and Systems of Credit Cards, Cash Cards and Stored Value Cards in Major Countries and Taiwan" commissioned by the Banking Bureau (2006)
    Researcher on the "Commissioning Plan for Drafting Fair Debt Collection Practices Act," commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (2005)
    Served as Committee Member, the Financial and Economic Law Committee, Taiwan Bar Associations
    Served as Director, Taipei Bar Association
    Served as Attorney, Partner Attorney and CEO, Formosan Brothers Attorneys-at-Law
    Served as Committee Member, the State Compensation Event Handling Committee, Ministry of Environment of Executive Yuan
    Served as Member, the Legislation Group and Petitions Reviewing Commission, Youth Development Administration of Executive Yuan
    Served as Supervisor, Radio Taiwan International

  • Area of Specialization

    company fundraising, orporate mergers and acquisitions, disputes over management, corporation reorganization and bankruptcy cases, Securities and Exchange Act cases, general civil and commercial cases, criminal defense, tax administrative remedies, and constitutional petitions.

  • Publication

    1. Newspaper articles

    Chungchiang Lai, "Abolition of Corporate Directors", Commercial Times (January 16, 2008)

    Chungchiang Lai, "Revisiting the Lack of Legal System from the Far Eastern Air Transport Case", Economic Daily News (July 7, 2008)

     

    2.Journal articles

    Chungchiang Lai, "Comments on the Legislative Questions of Article 15 of the Financial Institutions Merger Act and its Sub-Laws", Taipei Bar Journal (2002)

    Chungchiang Lai, "Minority Shareholder Rights", Formosan Brothers Attorneys-at-Law Journal No. 6, April (April, 2000)

    Chungchiang Lai, "Ownership of Shareholder Rights Before Financing Purchased Stocks are Repaid and Settled", Formosan Brothers Attorneys-at-Law Journal No. 5, September (September, 1999)

    Chungchiang Lai, " Affiliated Companies and Prohibition on Insider Trading", Formosan Brothers Attorneys-at-Law Journal No. 2, December (1998, December)

     

    3. Book

    Chungchiang Lai (co-author), "Corporate Ownership Dispute and Provisional Injunction", page 59-75, Angel Publishing (1999)

  • Language
    Mandarin Chinese, English, Taiwanese
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