Team

Pijan Wu

  • Senior Counsel: LCS & Partners
  • Adjunct Associate Professor: Soochow University School of Law (since 1996) (International Investment and Arbitration; Transnational Legal Problems; Contracts/Sales; Commercial Laws)
  • Delegate: ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR 
  • Fellow (FCIArb): Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, U.K.
  • Fellow (FPD): Prime Dispute, U.K.
  • Fellow (MIArb): Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators
  • Arbitrator: Chinese Arbitration Association International (CAAI)
  • Arbitrator: Beijing Arbitration Commission; Beijing International Arbitration Center
  • Member: Commission of Arbitration Rules, Chinese Arbitration Association (CAA, Taiwan)
  • Commissioner: New Taipei City Commission on Cable TV Services

  • National Taiwan University, EMBA
  • New York University School of Law, J.S.D.
  • Soochow University, LL.M.
  • National Taiwan University, LL.B

Areas of Expertise

International investment/trade law; Energy (including renewable energies); Construction/ infrastructure (government procurement, public-private-partnership, FIDIC contracts); Telecom, media, technology (TMT); Merger & acquisition; Entertainment/ music; Corporate restructuring/ turnaround; sale of good banks and bad banks (non-performing loans, NPLs); Startup businesses; Social enterprises

Publications

  • “A Book Review on Katia Fach Gómez 'The Technological Competence of Arbitrators: A Comparative and International Legal Study'” (Springer, Cham, 2023), Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 117-126, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4849468
  • “Book Review: Achieving the Arbitration Dream. Liber Amicorum for Professor Julian D.M. Lew KC, by Stavros Brekoulakis, Romesh Weeramantry & Lilit Nagapetyan (ed.). Kluwer Law International. Netherland.”, (2024), 90, Arbitration: The International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management, Issue 1, pp. 99-105, https://kluwerlawonline.com/journalarticle/Arbitration:+The+International+Journal+of+Arbitration,+Mediation+and+Dispute+Management/90.1/AMDM2024015
  • “UNCITRAL Working Group III Produces First Deliverables on ISDS Reform”, co-written with Caroline Thomas, posted on May 22, 2023 on LinkedIn https://lnkd.in/dj4kNSMK
  • “International Investment Law – IIAs and Cases Part I”, book published by Wu Nan in 2023.*
  • “Taiwan Chapter” in the INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION 2020 (published by Chambers and Partners, https://practiceguides.chambers.com/practice-guides/international-arbitration-2020/taiwan
  • “ICC Climate Change Related Disputes TF revised Draft Report”, CHINESE ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER, Feb. 2020 *
  • “International Investment Law in Transition”, INDUSTRY MAGAZINE, Vol.576, Mar. 2018 *
  • “Corporate Social Responsibility Put to the Test in Global Supply Chain”, presented in the ALFA 2018 INTERNATIONAL CLIENT SEMINAR, AT SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, Mar. 2018.
  • “First Experience of Investor-State Arbitration: Surfeit v. Taiwan”, ECONOMIC DAILY NEWS, Aug. 8, 2016 *
  • “Appointment of Mediation Institution under Taiwan-China BIA and Its Effects on Investors”, paper presented in the 15TH SYMPOSIUM ON CROSS-STRAIT COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION, Nov. 16, 2015 *
  • “Enforcement of Arbitral Awards and Provisional Orders – Comparative Study on Commercial and Investor-State Arbitrations”, presented in the 19TH NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY LAW CONFERENCE (National Chiao Tung University, Nov. 19, 2015) *
  • “Investor’s Legitimate Expectation vs. Host’s Right to Regulation – When Taiwan “Must” Join TPP”, paper presented in CONFERENCE ON EMERGING ISSUES OF INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW (Department of Investment Services, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Nov. 18, 2015) *
  • “Market Access under New Generation IIAs – Challenges for Taiwan before and after Joining TPP”, paper presented in the CONFERENCE ON TPP INVESTMENT-RELATED ISSUES (jointly sponsored by Soochow University and BOFT, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Oct. 31, 2015) *
  • “Functions of the Taiwan-China Investment Agreement”, in the LAW+BUSINESS@LCS (by LCS & PARTNERS, Jan. 2013) *
  • “Solving the Problems of Incapacity of Unrecognized Foreign Juristic Persons under Taiwan Law: From the Transnational Legal Perspective”, CHINESE (TAIWAN) REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL LAW, Vol.7:2, Dec. 2011, pp.293-320 * 
  • “Investment Protection Issues under ECFA between Taiwan and China”, in the COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION PAPERS (Chinese Arbitration Association, Taipei, Oct. 2011) *
  • “Corning (Taiwan) -- Case Study on Corning’s Investment in Taiwan”, in OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN THE APEC REGION (APEC Human Resources Development Working Group Capacity Building Network, Dec. 2008).
  • “Study on the Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions Engaged by Born Globals”, National Taiwan University EMBA thesis, June 2008.
  • Pijan Wu and Caroline Thomas, “Taiwan’s Fair Trade Act: Achieving the ‘Right’ Balance?”, NORTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & BUSINESS, 26:643 (2006).
  • “Taiwan’s Legal Strategies in Response to the Emerging Regional Trading Arrangements – Proposal for WTO Rules”, 17 CHINESE REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, 2003, pp.29-67 *
  • “Development of International Investment Regulations”, TAIWAN LAW REVIEW, October 1997*

* written in Chinese