Shiau Yen Chin-Dennis

Practice Areas

Shiau Yen Chin-Dennis provides business-focused legal solutions, regularly working with domestic and multinational companies on corporate matters and corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, post-acquisition integration, joint ventures, restructuring, strategic relationships, corporate governance, formation and other international transactions.

Shiau Yen regularly counsels corporate clients on mergers and acquisitions, including private equity transactions. She has extensive experience working on international corporate and cross-border matters, particularly in the Asia Pacific region, including market entry, expansion and exit. She has represented multiple inbound Asian investors in U.S. market entry. She handles global subsidiary governance for several multinational companies and also regularly represents companies in contract management and international commercial transactions matters. In addition to corporate matters, Shiau Yen has experience with executive employment matters in the Asia Pacific region, including employment agreements; transfers of employees; and trade secret, non-compete and non-solicitation agreements.

Shiau Yen is a founding faculty member of the firm's mini-MBA program, an innovative professional development training program designed to orient associates to key business concepts that are integral to our clients' business success.

Professional Memberships

APPOINTMENTS

National District Export Council (Steering Committee Member, Pacific North Region)

National District Export Council Trade Policy & Legislative Affairs Committee (Chair, Asia Subcommittee)

Oregon District Export Council (Chair and Member, appointed by the US Secretary of Commerce)

Oregon-China Sister State Committee (Member, appointed by the Office of the Senate President for the State of Oregon)

North Carolina District Export Council (Member, appointed by the US Secretary of Commerce, 2005 - 2011)

ASSOCIATIONS

Oregon Business and Industry (Executive Committee 2021 – present)

Boy Scouts of America, Cascade Pacific Council (Board Member, 2018 - present)

Green Empowerment (Board Member, 2018 - 2019)

International Association for Contract & Commercial Management (Member)

International Bar Association (former Corporate Counsel Forum Committee Member)

Oregon Asian Pacific American Bar Association (Member)

National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (Member)

Oregon State Bar Association, International Law Section (former Nominating Committee Member)

North Carolina Bar Association (Member, former Treasurer and Officer, and Mentorship Chair for the International Law Section)

Professional Human Resources (PHR) Certification

Technology Association of Oregon (Member, International Community)

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

2020 Women on Boards, Oregon Leadership Committee (Member)

Eleventh and Twelfth Annual Career Strategies Conference, Corporate Counsel Women of Color (K&L Gates Representative)

K&L Gates Firmwide Diversity Committee (Member)

Women’s Leadership Alliance of Greater Portland & SW Washington (Founding Member & Advisory Council Member, 2014 - present)

Japan-America Society of Oregon (Women’s Leadership Council, 2018 - present; Board Member, 2016 - 2018)

Northwest China Council (Pro Bono Counsel)

Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (2014 Fellow)

International Trade Education Minority Initiative, City of Durham, North Carolina (former Member)

American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina (former Board Member)

Education