Mr. Daniel Lee graduated from Taiwan University in 1994 with an LLB degree and obtained an LL.M. degree from Taiwan University in 1997 and Harvard Law School in 2001.

Mr. Lee is qualified to practice Taiwan, New York and PRC laws and has worked in leading domestic and international law firms for many years: he started his legal profession in Lee & Li in Taipei as Taiwan lawyer from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2009, he practiced New York law at Hong Kong and Shanghai Offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell, Morrison & Foerster and Weil Gotshal & Manges.  Afterwards from late 2009 and before joining Jingtian & Gongcheng as partner in 2012, he joined Shanghai Leaven Attorneys-at-Law, an affiliate firm of Lee & Li, as counsel to practice PRC law.

Mr. Lee specializes in securities law and capital market, cross-border M & A, foreign direct investments and general corporate counseling, etc.  In the capital market area, Mr. Lee has represented numerous issuers based in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China in their initial public offerings and international capital market bond and equity transactions, covering a wide range of industry sectors including banking and financial services, high-tech, energy, real estate and infrastructure.  Mr. Lee has also been acting as international or PRC legal counsel in several cross-border M & A projects in the PRC.

Mr. LEE was awarded as one of “2021 ALB China Top 15 M&A Lawyers” in March 2021 by Asian Legal Business, a magazine owned by Thomson Reuters.

Mr. Lee was qualified to practice Taiwan law in 1995, New York law in 2001 and PRC law in 2011.

Mr. Lee is a native mandarin speaker and is fluent in English.

Representing the underwriter for FIT Hon Teng Limited (a supplier of Foxconn) listing in HK

Representing the issuing company or the underwriter for various cases listing in Taiwan, including Pegatron Corp., 85°C, TPK Holding, Huatong Group, GSD Group,Trendpower Group and a large-scale real estate development company

Representing Citi Bank as the underwriter in a US$350 million ADR offering by AU Optronics Corp.

Representing Citi Bank as the underwriter in a US$250 million CB offering by Epistar Corp.

Representing Xiaomi Group, for its strategic cooperation with Meitu Corp.

Representing Golden Vision Buyout Fund I SP for its acquisition of AMVIG Holdings Limited, a HK listed company

Representing iQiyi, a Nasdaq listed company, for its RMB 2 Billion acquisition of Skymoons Inc.

Representing Shun Tak – China Travel Shipping Investments Ltd for its acquisition of several subsidiaries operating cross-border bus business in HKCTS Group and Shun Tak Group

Representing an auto service provider chain for its acquisition transactions with Didi Chuxing

Representing VC arm in Ping An Insurance Group for its B round investment in a pharmaceutical company for chronic pain treatment

Representing SAIF for its onshore investments in an online loan investment service company, a professional technology community and service platform for Chinese developers, an Internet company specializing in casual luxury, leisure and entertainment and a production company for early education robot and AI teaching toys

Representing Intel Capital for various onshore strategic investments

Representing Xiamen Semiconductor Investment Group for its investment in Xinzhou Technology Xiamen Co., Ltd.

Representing Xiaomi Technology for its strategic investments in two Taiwan-based household product manufacturers

Representing Yunnan Water Corp. for the asset acquisition of Heilongjiang Interchina Water Corp.

Representing Warburg Pincus in its investment in a drug and cosmetic retail chain in Southern China

Representing Twi Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Taiwan listed company, in its acquisition of a Hainan Medicine Company

While working at previous US firms, representing TSMC in a US$2.6 billion ADR offering underwritten by Goldman Sachs

While working at previous US firms, representing BNP Paribas as the lead underwriter for DCH (spun off from CITIC Group) listing in HK

While working at previous US firms, representing dozens of Taiwan-listed companies for overseas financing under Rule 144A or Regulation S, including (i) PC manufacture related companies like Ambit Microsystems, Quanta Group, Hon Hai Precision and Nanya Technology, and (ii) financial holding companies, including various leading private financial group in Taiwan like Cathay Financial Holdings, Chinatrust Financial Holdings, Taishin Financial Holdings and E.SUN Financial Holdings, and (iii) others like Wan Hai Lines, Sinosteel Group, Cathay Real Estate and Pou Chen Group.
While working at previous US firms, representing Merrill Lynch, UBS and Deutsche Bank in their pre-IPO investments in PIPE high yield/convertible debt with warrants issued by various issuers with operations in China, including Xinyuan (NYSE: XIN), Harbin Electric (NASDAQ:HRBN), Fushi Copperweld, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSIN), China Natural Gas (NASDAQ: CHNG), 7 Days Inn (NYSE:SVN), China Mobile Media (NASDAQ:CHL) and China Security & Surveillance Technology (traded on OTCBB of the United States)

While working at previous US firms, representing Hurray! Holding Co., Ltd. (providing value-added telecommunications services, and acquired by SNDA later) for listing on NASDAQ

While working at previous US firms, representing Cathay Financial Holdings Corp. (the largest financial holding company in Taiwan) for a global ADR offering (awarded by Asia-Money Magazine as the “Best Equity Deal of the Year Award” for 2004)

While working at previous US firms, representing Lone Star Technologies (a US listed company which manufactures oilfield pipe lines) in its joint venture with Valin Steel Tube & Wire (a Shenzhen stock Exchange listed company, investment amount: US$ 238 million)

While working at previous US firms, representing Goldman Sachs in its investments in Anhui Kouzi, a state-owned white-wine producer based in Anhui (investment amount: RMB 350 million) and Century 21, a leading real estate brokerage franchising network in China

While working at previous US firms, representing iDtech (the venture capital fund of Acer Group) and Legend Capital (the venture capital fund of Lenovo) in their venture capital investments

While working at previous US firms, representing Zhaopin in its Series E financing by Macquarie and SEEK (the largest online recruiter in Australia)

While working at previous US firms, representing Sequoia and Highland in their joint investments in Series A financing of Qihoo Technology and Series B financing of UUSEE

The revision of the "Guidance Catalogue for Foreign Investment Industries" and its impact on practical operations