Economic conditions are challenging. As often happens during downward business cycles, strong business relationships are fraying and minority partners, often investors, are finding themselves shut out.

Marrying later in life. De facto relationships. Second and subsequent marriages and other significant relationships. When your life melds with another, it necessarily gives rise to the question: what happens if it doesn’t work out?

Merger and acquisition purchase agreements generally include indemnification provisions, pursuant to which a given party (“indemnitor”) agrees to defend, hold harmless, and indemnify the other party or parties (“indemnitees”) from specified claims or damages.

While, like most countries, dividends received by a parent company from its subsidiaries may enjoy certain tax exemptions, various tax laws in Taiwan prevent taxpayers from obtaining undue tax benefits through related-party transactions.

Any company may enact its own regulations for competition compliance and then submit these in writing to the Fair Trade Commission for filing, as well as take action towards these regulations, or may publish similar content on the company's website.