Jennifer Wang

Practice Areas

M&A and Joint Venture;

Private Equity/Venture Capital;

Capital Market and Financing;

Antitrust and Unfair Competition;

Life Science;

Green Energy;

Technology Transactions

Career

Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett;

Partner, Chen & Lin

Professional Memberships

Director of Taiwan Private Equity Association;

Supervisor of Taiwan M&A and Private Equity Council;

Certified Dealmaker of China Mergers & Acquisitions Association;

Member of Taiwan Bar Association

Publications

How to Strengthen the Growth of Local PE with Right Policies and Laws (Commercial Times, June of 2021)

Analysis of M&A cases (Ten Lessons must be learnt by Enterprises, MAPECT, May of 2016)

How to Make Investment in Taiwan by PRC Investors after Unleashing Certain Restrictions between the Strait (Financing Service Guide to China SMEs, 2012)

Basics of Laws and Policies of the Cross-Strait M&A (Investment in Taiwan –in All Aspects of Making Investment by PRC Investors in Taiwan, August of 2012)

Roads to Taiwan IPOs (China Law & Practice, 2011)

Personal

Jennifer Wang joined Chen & Lin in September 1999. She is now the partner of Chen & Lin and in charge of M&A & Joint Venture, Capital Market & Financing and PE/VC practices. Her specialized legal areas include corporate, securities, M&A, anti-trust, life science, E-commerce and investments and technical cooperation between Cross-Strait. Jennifer has extensive experiences in providing general corporate and compliance services to multinational or international companies. She is experienced in cross-border and domestic M&A transactions with wide variety from merger, share swap, tender offer, stock purchase to asset and business acquisition. She also has extensive experiences in assisting the client for corporate restructuring, fund formation and investment, overseas and domestic IPO and fund raising, licensing, foreign investment application, establishment of R&D or training center in Taiwan, government subsidy application, joint venture and anti-trust compliance. She is also an expert at designing, drafting and negotiating various kinds of commercial agreements and providing general corporate matters.

Jennifer serves clients with a wide range of industries. The industries of the client Jennifer served or is now serving, include semiconductor equipment, semiconductor, IC design, other hi-tech, life science, green energy, consumer products, food & beverage, on-line and mobile games, E-commerce, bank and other financial institutes, cable TV, fashion sports, entertainment etc. Jennifer serves many leading multinational or domestic companies. Through her diligence in understanding the character of each different industry and with her service in depth, clients highly appreciate her professionalism.

To advance her knowledge, Jennifer went to the U.S., obtaining her second master degree from the Columbia University School of Law in 2003. In the same year, Jennifer passed the New York State bar examination and worked as an international associate at Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLP. Realizing transaction lawyers must have fundamental understanding about the proceedings of disputes so as to give the clients proactive advices, Jennifer participated in commercial litigations and related dispute proceedings before becoming a transaction lawyer. Jennifer firmly believes that a professional lawyer should equip her/himself with wide yet in-depth analysis capability and that she/he should understand the commercial needs of the clients and should not provide the advice merely sticking to the appearance of the law provisions.

Languages Spoken

Mandarin and English

Awards