Paul Chu

Paul Chu, as a practicing Lawyer in Taiwan, has expertise in e-commerce, personal data protection, tax, and human resource areas. Hs is also senior partner and co-founder of Guoju Law Firm in Taipei. 

Mr Chu is a PhD candidate of Fu Jen Catholic University. He was the Senior Manager, Tax and Legal Dept. of PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”) Taiwan and senior attorney of PwC Legal Taiwan before he co-founded Guoju Law Firm in 2008. 

Mr Chu has devoted years to e-commerce and personal information protection area. He was the 5th to 7th Civil Counsel Committee of National Information & Communications Initiative Committee, and attended as legal counsel in multiple government’s and NGO’s projects in related to the e-commerce, including the project of 2nd Generation E-invoices (for taxation) and the project of individual tax data protection system of Ministry of Finance, the Large Payment Service for the E-Banking of the Bankers Association, and the project of a large third-party payment company to develop innovative mobile application service which can be expected to be a huge business chance. In addition, he assisted clients from different industries to build their personal data protection system, and he is also a long-term legal counsel and external trainer of Yahoo Taiwan. 

As a former Senior Manager of Tax and Legal Dept in PwC Taiwan, Mr Chu also has years of practical experience in tax area. Especially, most of his cases were in combination with tax, e-commerce projects, and personal information protection. Through these multidisciplinary cases, he further expended his specialty in the use of big date. He is the vice president of the Open Data Alliance and attended as legal counsel of Big Data Alliance to draft a white paper of three types of different data exchange models to encourage the industries of Taiwan to use big data to improve their business processes.