U.S. firm Perkins Coie has welcomed back Marcus Woo as a partner from Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer HTC Corporation, where he was vice president and general counsel. Initially based in New York, Woo will move to Taipei once registration formalities are completed.
At the firm, Woo will represent clients in Taiwan and beyond on intellectual property and corporate matters, including U.S. IP litigation work for Taiwanese companies.
Woo initially worked for eight years at Perkins Coie, joining the firm in 1993. He left in 2001 to spend another eight years with Jones Day, before holding senior in-house roles at Taiwanese companies Tatung Group and Chunghwa Picture Tubes. Woo joined HTC in 2014.
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Tatung is a household name in Taiwan and was a major player in the
country’s industrial rise. Yet this century-old enterprise has fallen on hard times, its property the only remaining asset of value. What caused Tatung’s downfall, and will it be able to rise again?
It only took a couple of hours for the Lin family to lose management control of Tatung, a company it had stewarded for over a century.
On the morning of October 21, a group of activist investors known as the “market faction” scored a decisive victory at an extraordinary shareholders meeting, where their members were elected to seven of the nine seats on the company’s board of directors.