Peggy Chiu
Biography
Peggy Chiu is a partner at Baker McKenzie's Taipei office and serves as the co-leader within the tax practice group. She has extensive experience in banking and finance, regulatory compliance, and private banking matters. Additionally, Peggy is knowledgeable in the financial technology and innovation sectors and has handled traditional financing, family succession planning, anti-money laundering compliance, insurance, and tax issues.
Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Peggy was a Certified Public Accountant and has continued to hold this certification after joining the Firm. With over four years of in-house experience, she provides practical counsel on banking and corporate operations. Her dual background in accounting and law enables her to address both the financial and legal aspects of client needs.
Representative Legal Matters
- Acting as legal and tax counsel for various M&A transactions.
- Acting as Legal counsel of Taiwan Fintech Space, the government-backed Fintech accelerator.
- Four-year practical in-house experience in global banks and the bank subsidiary of a Taiwan financial holding company.
- Assisted several clients in implementing Fintech and innovation for payment solutions, client-facing and 'know-your-customer' procedures.
- Assisted legal migration projects and tax advisory work under the anti-tax avoidance regime.
- Assisted a local financial holding company in implementing compliance risk assessment (CRA) and enhancing compliance structure for offshore branches.
- Assisted several foreign banks in merging with other banks, localization and conducting post-merger matters.
- Assisted major banks and cross-border enterprises in acquisition finance, project finance and trade finance.
- Assisted major banks in miss-selling client complaints and related compliance issues.
- Advised major banks and high net-worth clients on private banking/wealth management related legal, tax and compliance issues.
- Advised major banks and public companies on corporate governance, company secretary, and general corporate matters
- Assisted major financial institutions in Banca related matters and projects.
- Assisted a major Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) company in a financial restructuring project.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Taipei Bar Association
Admissions
- Taoyuan~Taiwan (2009)
- Taipei~Taiwan (2007)
Education
- Financial Supervisory Commission, Taipei, Taiwan (Certified Public Accountant License) (2007)
- National Taiwan University (MBA) (2006)
- National Taiwan University (LL.B. and BBA) (2003)
Languages
- English
- Mandarin
- Taiwanese