Caroline Chen

Contact
cyc@bwslawyers.com.au
(02) 9394 1080

Assistant
Tania Reinecke 
tsr@bwslawyers.com.au
(02) 9394 1090

Caroline is a Partner with  extensive experience in commercial and transactional matters across a range of industries including Tourism, IT, Retail, Pharmaceutical and Property Development.

She also acts for insolvency advisors providing them with legal advice and executing insolvency transactions.  Caroline also advises clients on business acquisitions and disposals, employment and insolvency matters.

Caroline advises clients on a wide range of commercial agreements and arrangements including:

  • Shareholder agreements

  • Partnership agreements

  • Distribution agreements

  • Joint ventures

  • Property development projects

  • Services agreements

  • Executive employment contracts

Caroline has acted on a range of matters including the following:

  • Managing the due diligence process and  negotiating contracts for the disposal of assets of a galvanizing plant in Indonesia for a leading global provider of operations, maintenance, asset and project management services.

  • Providing advice for a pharmaceutical client, preparing them to be investment ready and advising on the strategic planning process.

  • Regularly advising an international film distributor on employment related matters.

  • Advising a national premium retail brand in relation to risk associated with a joint venture partner to develop a bulky goods retail site.

Caroline moved to Australia after spending 7 years in Paraguay and she speaks fluent Spanish in addition to her mother tongue, Mandarin. 
Caroline provides legal advice to members of the Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce and she often speaks at seminars conducted for the general public, accountants and business advisors on topics including business structuring, estate planning, insolvency and employment law.

Qualifications
Caroline is currently studying an MBA at the Australian Graduate School of Management.
BEcon, Macquarie University
LLB, Macquarie University

Memberships
The  Law Society of New South Wales
Executive member, Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce in Australia
Executive member, World Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce