Heather HSIAO

Partner

Heather Hsiao is an experienced attorney focusing her practice on employment issues, IP counseling, a variety of litigation and general corporate and commercial matters. Heather frequently addresses both local and international audiences on a variety of pertinent legal topics. This includes the legal intricacies surrounding foreign professionals employed in Taiwan.

Admitted to the Taiwan bar.

 

EDUCATION

• Northwestern University (LL.M)
• National Taiwan University (LL.B and LL.M)

PRACTICE

• Eiger since 2013
• Senior in-house counsel of listed technology company
• Law firms in Taipei

LANGUAGES

• Chinese, English

PREFERRED AREAS OF PRACTICE

• Competition & Antitrust, Compliance, Corporate & Investment, Employment, Energy & Environment, Health & Life Sciences, Intellectual Property, Litigation & Arbitration,  Media & Entertainment, Private Clients, Restructuring & Insolvency

OTHER

• Since 2022: Member of the Taiwan Bar Association’s Immigration Law Committee
• Since 2021: Member of the European Chamber of Commerce Taiwan
• Since 2020: Member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan 

PUBLICATIONS

• Work Permits and Visa Issues for Foreign Professionals (ZH, presentation for the Taiwan Bar Association’s Immigration Law Committee); July 2023
• Corruption Laws in Taiwan, September 2020
• Advice for Human Resources in Special Times (ZH, presentation for American Chamber of Commerce Taiwan); April 2020
• “A Study of Article 17, Paragraph 2 of the Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act: Comments on Supreme Court Judgement 106 Tai San Tzu No. 402” (Taiwan Bar Journal), June 2017
• “Patient and Prisoner: Status of Drug Addict in Taiwan in The Past Centuries” (Peng Ming-min Foundation in Taiwan Research Award, 2007)

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