Lee and Li has marked its 60th year as a law firm in Taiwan, with chairman Chia-Ching Lee telling Asia Business Law Journal that his firm will hold firmly to its people-first management philosophy in facing challenges from geopolitical risks, artificial intelligence shocks and market competition.
Joyce Fan, CEO and partner of Lee & Li who is qualified in Taiwan and New York, said the Taipei-based firm had grown from more than 200 people when she joined at age 24 to now close to 1,000 staff members.
As the oldest and largest law firm in Taiwan, Lee and Li currently has more than 250 Taiwan and overseas-qualified lawyers as well as over 140 Taiwan and overseas-licensed patent attorneys and agents, the firm’s website states.
Established in Taipei in 1965, the Taiwanese firm has won mandates for advising on multiple billion-dollar transactions, with some of them being record-setting deals, over the years. In 2023, Lee and Li acted as local Taiwanese law counsel in the Hai Long 1,022-megawatt offshore wind project, a USD6.5 billion offshore wind farm in Taiwan by Mitsui & Co and Northland Power, marking the largest such project financing in Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific region.
Lee and Li has also advised on cross-border transactions, including representing Baring Private Equity Asia in its joint acquisition of Taiwanese contact lens manufacturer Ginko International along with New Path International and Hydron International in 2022. Valued at close to USD1 billion, the take-private of Ginko was one of the largest deals involving the privatisation of a listed company in Taiwan’s consumer market.
Most recently, in the fourth quarter of 2024, it was mandated as the lead counsel acting for Taiwanese label printing solutions provider TSC Auto ID Technology in its acquisition of a 96.5% stake in South Korean mobile solutions supplier Bluebird for KRW120 billion (USD86 million).
