Junior Partner
Jie Huang
Education
LL. M., University of Tokyo (Japan)
LL.M., Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary, National Taiwan University College of Law,
B.A. in Japanese Language and Literature, National Taiwan University
Admission
Taiwan
Languages
Mandarin Chinese / Japanese / English
Past & Current Positions
ISO/IEC 27701:2019 Privacy Information Management Lead Auditor
Certified Privacy Management Professional, Taiwan Personal Information Protection and Administration System (TPIPAS)
Member’s Representative of Taiwan Bar Association (from January 2023 to present)
Vice Chairman of International Affairs Committee of Taiwan Bar Association (from January 2023 to present)
Vice Chairman of International Affairs Section of Taipei Bar Association (from August 2023 to present)
Director of the 1st Board of Directors of The Taiwan-Japan Lawyers Association (from November 2023 to present)
Governmental Scholarship. Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2019 to 2021)
Experience
Mr. Jie Huang is known for providing full-scale legal support for Japanese companies’ investment in Taiwan. His successive success in his career makes him the first choice for clients who face real property development, M&A, joint venture, renewable energy projects, debts re-construction and foreclosure, consumer protection, and unfair competition. He is appraised by his clients for his excellent legal skills and extensive business experience in helping clients negotiate for favorable results, managing their legal risks, and resolving their legal disputes with others.
In recent years, Mr. Huang has specialized in personal data protection issues. He has provided legality reviews on data protection laws and regulations for new business models of multinational companies. Mr. Huang offers clients legal opinions on compliance with data protection laws and assists them in establishing internal regulations (such as personal data security maintenance plans). His expertise extends to various specially regulated industries, such as merchandise retailing, digital economy-related industries, manpower intermediary industries, manufacturing industries, etc. Additionally, Mr. Huang provides legal advice on commercial contracts concerning personal data protection across various industries and offers courses on personal information compliance to industrial clients. Mr. Huang is a Lead Auditor of ISO/IEC 27701:2019 Privacy Information Management and a Certified Privacy Management Professional, Taiwan Personal Information Protection and Administration System (TPIPAS), and his remarkable achievements in the field of personal data protection have led to his selection as a recommended lawyer in data protection by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific for the year 2023.
Familiar with major domestic real property development projects, Mr. Huang has long been providing legal service in massive commercial, such as shopping mall and restaurant, and residential real property development projects. His specialty includes (drafting) of the initial agreement with governmental agencies (such as PPP, government procurement, and joint venture agreements), and drafting, negotiation and review of the subsequent contracts (such as construction contract, commercial lease, real property management agreement, joint development agreement, and pre-sale agreement).Mr. Huang is also experienced in applications for investment permits, due diligence investigation for business merger, investment in renewable energy projects, debts re-constructing and redemption, corporate governance, lecture on legal compliance.
Administrative law is another field Mr. Huang is excellent in. He has been invited as a legal expert by central governmental agencies to review and comment on their proposed regulations and administrative proceedings, such as administrative investigations, administrative sanction, and administrative litigations. In addition, Mr. Huang was retained by the private section in defending administrative proceedings. For example, he achieved a big success for a nationwide well-known publicly-listed company in an administrative proceeding challenging an improper administrative order on real property in the value of ten billion.
Publications
- The Mechanism and Practice of The Regulatory Sandbox of Japan: Taking A Leaf for The Potential Cooperation Model of Government and Civil Society in Taiwan.(Angle Lawyer Empowerment, 2022)
- How are you doing? — The 2013 Taiwan Human Rights Report(Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR), 2013)
- Review of Infringements on the Constitutional Rights and Equality of the Indigenous People — Focusing on the Overuse of Indigenous Reserves,(4th Convention on Traditional Customs and Norms of the Indigenous Peoples and National Laws,, 2013)
- Public law-related actions in Japanese administrative litigation,” Master’s thesis, the Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, College of Law(National Taiwan University, , 2013)
- Legal Admissibility of Action for Judicial Review of Statutes and Regulations: Action of Declaratory Judgment in Japan and Taiwan(Thesis of LL.M., University of Tokyo, 2021)
New Book Publication: “Legal and Compliance Considerations for Japanese Companies Investing in Taiwan – From Company Establishment and Operations to Dispute Resolution and Exit”