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Taiwan's capital market has a few IPOs lined up!

In 2008, as part of its capital market liberalization policy, the Taiwan government amended the stock exchange rules to actively encourage foreign businesses to list in Taiwan. It also relaxed restrictions on the qualifications of foreign issuers and the use of raised funds. 43 companies are expected to go through IPO this year. While Taiwanese invested enterprises in PRC will still be one of the main sources of deals, Taiwan capital market will start to attract those in Silicon Valley with Asian connection. Many Southeast Asian companies (Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, etc.) will also start exploring the possibilities of IPO in Taiwan. Our panel speakers will share with you on the opportunities and challenges of about IPOs in Taiwan from an investment bank, legal and regulatory point of view.

About the Speakers

Ms. Shirley Li is the Vice President of Listing Promotion Department of Taiwan Stock Exchange. She has been working with TWSE for about 20 years and is responsible for promotion and review of listing applications. She holds a M.S. degree in accounting from University of Houston, USA and is qualified for ROC and American Certified Public Accountant.

Mr. Sam Lee has extensive investment banking deal experiences, both on M&A advisory and equity capital market transactions. He helped numerous large Taiwanese corporations raise more than $3BN in the international as well as domestic capital markets. Sam also executed several prominent M&A transactions in recent years including: Yageo's acquisition of Philip's passive devision, Delta's acquisition of Ascom's power division, sale of ADM Tech to Infineon, Hannstar's sale of a Gen-3 TFT LCD fab to Wintek, Jabil's acquisition of Taiwan Green Point, Acer's acquisition of Gateway, Mediator's acquisition ADI's mobility business, CVC's acquisition of NienMade and Unity Opto's placement to a group of investors.

Mr. Chung-Ping Liu's practice involves a broad range of commercial and financing transactions, including lending and structured finance, real estate transactions, M&A, and capital markets. He represents clients in syndicated and secured lending, various financial transactions such as risk participation, factoring, and financing leases, IPO and debt and equity securities offerings, securitization, real estate acquisitions and financings, acquisition and servicing of distressed assets, and financial institution M&A. Chung-Ping represented Fubon Financial Holding in its $600 million acquisition of ING's Taiwanese life insurance. He also advises foreign issuers in their Taiwan IPOs.

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