Daniel Lee

Mr. Daniel Lee is a partner in Jingtian & Gongcheng’s Shanghai office. Prior to joining us, Mr. Lee worked at some leading law firms for over 10 years, including Davis Polk LLP, Morrison & Foerster LLP and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Mr. Lee’s practice focuses on securities offerings and capital markets, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment and general corporate matters. Mr. Lee has been involved in several dozens of securities offerings by PRC, Hong Kong or Taiwan companies in such industries as banking, high technology, energy, real estate and infrastructure. Mr. Lee has also been extensively involved in cross-border mergers and acquisitions involving PRC companies.

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.

Education Background
• 2001, Harvard Law School, LLM
• 1997, Taiwan University, LLM
• 1994, Taiwan University, LLB

Bar Admissions
• 2011, People’s Republic of China Bar Admission
• 2001, New York State Bar Admission
• 1995, Taiwan Bar Admission

Representative Cases

• Representing the underwriter for RLX Technology Inc. listing in NYSE

• 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 (and new issuance) 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 legal adviser to the underwriter in a US$350 million ADR offering by AU Optronics Corp.

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

• Representing Merrill Lynch, UBS, Deutsche Bank and hedge fund ABAX 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 U.S.)

• Representing Hurray! Holding Co., Ltd. (providing value-added telecommunications services, and acquired by SNDA later) for listing on NASDAQ

• Representing Hurray! Holding Co., Ltd. and Linktone for its compliance with the U.S. Securities Law and relevant annual reports and announcements

• 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)