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Johnny (Chung-Wei) Liao specializes in white-collar criminal cases. He represents clients in matters involving the Anti-Corruption Act, Securities and Exchange Act, Banking Act, Securities Investment Trust and Consulting Act, Tax Collection Act, fraud, breach of trust, and violation of secrecy, among others. He regularly provides legal services for cross-border internal investigations and anti-corruption compliance for several overseas companies spanning the United States, Europe, Japan, and other regions.
Johnny’s expertise further extends to constitutional advocacy related to issues of criminal justice and human rights. He successfully handled the high-profile case heard by the Constitutional Court concerning the unconstitutional governmental search and seizure against a law firm (Constitutional Court Judgment No. 9 of 2023).
Johnny possesses extensive experience in high-value inheritance and family wealth succession cases. He successfully represented an heir defending the validity of the will of a business tycoon worth over US$800 million. His expertise also includes handling complex cross-border commercial litigation and arbitration, including: • Successfully representing multiple international banks in resolving financial disputes over various types of derivative products (e.g., TRF). • Successfully representing an esteemed engineering company in contract disputes related to the construction of a high-value arts and cultural center worth over US$350 million. • Successfully representing an insurance company against an investment bank in a transnational dispute over assets worth US$200 million. • Successfully representing a fast-food chain corporation in defending multiple local tort claims. • Successfully representing two major European automobile manufacturers in defending local product defect customer claims.
學歷
LL.M., Columbia Law School (2025)
LL.M., National Taipei University (2018)
LL.B., National Taipei University (2016)
專業領域
Civil Dispute Resolution; Arbitration, Criminal Dispute Representation and Defense; Construction Contracts; Family Business Succession Planning and Family Matters
資格
Attorney admitted in Taiwan (2019)
語言
Mandarin, English, Taiwanese Hokkien
2023
Exploring the Applicable law to the Arbitration Agreement: from the Perspective of Comparative Law 2023 Cross-Strait International Private Law Conference
2022
Reputation Restored or Not? – Study on the Constitutional Court Judgment 111-Hsien-Pan-2 Angle Lawyer Empowerment, No. 6
2022
修復不修復?─憲法法庭111年憲判字第2號判決試讀 月旦律評6期
2021
Comments on J.Y. Interpretation No. 791 – From Gender Status to Equal Contracts? The Taiwan Law Review, No. 315
2020
An Introduction to Restriction on Airport and Sea Port Exit under the Code of Criminal Procedure Lee and Li Bulletin, July 2020
2019
Preliminary Study on Bitcoin's Compulsory Enforcement Hwa Kang Law Review, Vol. 67
2019
The Fundamental Issues of Third-Party Funding in Arbitration – Study on the Validity of Taiwan’s Lex The Arbitration Quarterly, Vol. 108
2018
The Fundamental Issues of Third-Party Funding in Arbitration – Study on the Validity of Taiwan’s Lex The Arbitration Quarterly, Vol. 107
