Thomas W. Huang

Thomas W. Huang is a member of the Business Law Department where he practices primarily in the areas of general business law, financing and international transactions. Mr. Huang has extensive experience in business and corporate law and represents corporate and individual clients within the United States and abroad. His experience includes general business and corporate law; asset-based, participation, and syndicated lending; strategic alliances through joint ventures and investments, including technology transfers and licensing, agency, distributor, marketing, employment, and leasing arrangements; and legal matters involving angel and venture capital financing, moving financial and human resources across borders, such as obtaining venture capital funds and U.S. immigration investments from abroad, primarily from Asia. In this connection, he is heading the Taiwan Practice Group of the firm.

Mr. Huang is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese and has been engaged in the negotiation, drafting, reviewing, and production of legal documents in both English and Chinese.

Mr. Huang is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New York, and the District of Columbia.

Mr. Huang has authored many publications, particularly in areas connected with practices in China. They include: The Protection of American Copyrights Under Nationalist Chinese Law, 12 Harv. Int'l L. J. 71 (1971); Reflections on Law and the Economy in the People's Republic of China, 14 Harv. Int'l L. J. 261 (1973); Joint Ventures with China: Problems and Prospects, 24 Boston Bar J. 5 (1980); Tiananmen Incident, 34 Boston Bar J. 14 (1990); Critique of Law in Social Theories (in Chinese 1991); 'One Treaty, Two Members': China and Taiwan in the Context of the WTO/TRIMs, 1 J. World Investment 261 (2000).

Mr. Huang is a member and has served on many civic and business organizations. He served on the steering committee of the International Law Committee of the Boston Bar Association for nearly ten years and was a member of the Massachusetts Governor's Advisory Council on Guangdong, China, for many years. He is one of the founders and the clerk/director of the Asian American Bank & Trust Company in Boston. Mr. Huang has been listed in Marquis Who's Who in American Law since 1985.

Mr. Huang was born in Taipei, Taiwan (China) and obtained his Bachelor of Law degree from National Taiwan University, where he served as the general manager and editor-in-chief of the university journal for two years. After a brief tenure at the Legal and Treaty Department of Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was involved in matters concerning the preparation of legal opinions and multilateral treaties, he came to the United States for further studies. He subsequently obtained a J.D. magna cum laude from Indiana University Law School in Indianapolis and a Master of Law (LL.M.) and a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) degree, both from Harvard Law School, where he concentrated in comparative law studies and international business transactions.


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