Services & Expertise
In addition to providing advisory services within individual professional disciplines,
we are frequently involved in relatively complex matters requiring integrated consideration across legal, tax, business management, industry operations, market insight, and cross-border judgment.
1. Corporate Legal & Regulatory Matters （Learn More▼）
Scope of Services
- We provide comprehensive legal support when companies encounter regulatory clarification, corporate governance, or compliance requirements in the course of management, growth, transformation, or cross-border collaboration.
- Legal services should not be limited to contract review or dispute resolution alone. We support shareholding structuring, voting arrangements, corporate governance operations (including board and shareholder matters), labor disputes, internal investigations, and compliance framework design. We also serve as coordinating advisors in litigation-related matters, assisting clients in aligning strategies across multiple issues.
- For matters involving regulatory authorities (such as industry regulators, labor authorities, financial supervisory bodies, investment review authorities, competition authorities, and stock exchanges), we assist in document preparation, communication, and procedural coordination.
How We Support Clients
Our role extends beyond providing legal opinions or reviewing contracts. We assist companies in balancing regulatory requirements with practical business considerations, and in developing actionable strategies that support real decision-making.
We aim for legal frameworks not only to manage risk, but also to enable business objectives in a practical and effective manner.
Typical Stakeholders Involved
Corporate management teams, in-house counsel, external lawyers and accountants, and cross-border partners.
2. Tax Planning & Structural Design （Learn More▼）
Scope of Services
- As businesses grow and expand, tax exposure and operational risks often accumulate. We assist in reviewing and optimizing organizational structures and asset arrangements.
- We provide integrated analysis and planning on dividend timing, capital reduction strategies, multi-layer shareholding structures, cash flow planning, deferred taxation, and applicable tax incentives.
- Under compliance considerations, we assist clients in reassessing long-term tax strategies and organizational structures, including restructuring where appropriate.
How We Support Clients
Our focus is not limited to identifying individual tax-saving tools, but rather ensuring that the overall structure is reasonable, sustainable, and practically implementable.
We assist clients in balancing tax considerations, legal requirements, and operational realities, enabling tax strategies to effectively support long-term development.
Typical Stakeholders Involved
Accountants, tax advisors, family offices, and corporate decision-makers.
3. Cross-Border Transactions [incl. Japan-related matters] / Investment & M&A （Learn More▼）
Scope of Services
- We support Japan-related matters and assist in Taiwan–Japan business activities, including market entry, investment, distribution arrangements, strategic alliances, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
- In cross-border transactions and M&A matters, we often act as coordinating advisors. In addition to providing professional advice and access to relevant networks, we help align perspectives and advance transactions where multiple advisors are involved.
- We assist in addressing differences arising from legal systems, regulatory frameworks, tax structures, business practices, information environments, and language, enabling clients to make informed decisions.
How We Support Clients
Transactions are not merely investment decisions, but often shape a company’s future operating structure and organizational configuration.
We support decision-makers by clarifying key issues, identifying risks, and coordinating across multiple professional perspectives to facilitate effective implementation.
Typical Stakeholders Involved
Financial advisors, Taiwanese and Japanese legal/accounting teams, corporate management and finance teams, investment banks, private equity funds, business partners, and government authorities.
4. Real Estate, Construction & Land-related Projects （Learn More▼）
Scope of Services
- We assist in matters involving regulatory compliance, tax planning, urban planning considerations, investment evaluation, and dispute resolution relating to real estate and construction projects.
- Our experience includes building development, urban renewal projects, joint development structures, land use change, corporate headquarters establishment, government procurement, and BOT projects.
- We analyze issues where legal, tax, and engineering considerations are closely interconnected, identifying key risks and practical pathways forward.
How We Support Clients
We support clients through a project-management-oriented approach, enabling decisions from an integrated perspective and reducing risks arising from fragmented analysis. Our role includes facilitating coordination among multiple professionals within a unified decision-making framework.
Typical Stakeholders Involved
Architects, engineers, construction management firms, in-house legal teams, and relevant governmental authorities.
Union’s expertise lies not only in providing professional opinions, analysis, and planning.
More importantly, we focus on ensuring that complex professional judgments can be integrated, decisions can be made effectively, and strategies can be implemented in practice.
Instead of the common situation where clients gather fragmented advice from different professionals (1+1 ≤ 2), we aim to create outcomes where collaboration generates greater value (1+1 > 2).
Our Team
Martin Stommer
Founder / CEO
Barbara Cooper
Founder / CEO
Jason Ester
Founder / CEO
Union Transnational Consulting Firm Union Transnational Law Firm
Integrating perspective and expertise to support better decisions, manage risk, and deliver one-stop business advisory solutions.
Contact Us
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Tel
+886 (02) 2528-2830 -
Email
union989@ms16.hinet.net - Address: 6F-2, No. 302, Yongji Rd., Xinyi Dist., Taipei City 110, Taiwan
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