Senior Partner
Leo Lee
Education
LL. M., National Taipei University
LL. B., National Taipei University
Admission
Taiwan
Languages
Mandarin / ChineseEnglish
Past & Current Positions
Chairperson, Administrative Law Committee, Taipei Bar Association (from February 2025 to present)
Member, 9th Real Estate Broker Disciplinary Committee, Department of Land Administration, Taipei City Government (from April 2025 to present)
Certificate on Expediting Reconstruction of Urban Unsafe and Old Buildings, Taipei City (from September 2023 to present)
Member, 28th and 29th Administrative Law Committee, Taipei Bar Association (from August 2017 to February 2025)
Chief Executive Officer, RuoYu Foundation (from August 2019 to January 2025)
Associate, Formosan Brothers Attorneys-at-Law (from July 2013 to June 2018)
Executive Secretary, Legal Regulations Committee, National Council of Public-Private Partnership ROC (from March 2013 to June 2018)
Trainee Associate, Formosan Brothers Attorneys-at-Law (from February 2013 to July 2013)
Experience
Mr. Leo Lee is currently the chairperson of administrative law committee of the Taipei Bar Association. He has previously served as the executive secretary of the NCPPP-ROC and the CEO of RuoYu Legal Cultural and Educational Foundation. He constantly provides clients, including private corporations, government agencies, and government-owned enterprises, with legal consulting services pertaining to Fair Trade Act, Trade Secrets Act, Energy Act, Building Act, Environmental Act, Act for Promotion of Private Participation in Infrastructure Projects, Government Procurement Act, real estate-related laws and administrative regulations. With experience in the practice of above-mentioned laws and regulations, he is frequently invited by private institutions to give lectures or conduct training sessions, and is highly trusted by his clients.
Mr. Lee has obtained extensive experience in dispute resolution and Fair Trade Act-related regulations. His experience includes drafting internal anti-trust and fair trading regulations for several renowned chemical companies and technology companies, representing renowned publicly-listed company to apply for mergers, assisting in early-stage administrative investigation and the ensuing administrative litigations in a case where a renowned foreign semiconductor manufacturer was fined a record-high amount, assisting domestic renowned wholesale corporation, logistics company and media technology company in responding to administrative investigation conducted by Fair Trade Committee to ensure that client’s right is being protected effectively in administrative investigation proceeding prior to a sanction made by Fair Trade Committee.
Mr. Lee is experienced in handling high-profile administrative litigations. He represented a renowned publicly-listed company in administrative litigation centering the definition of “special industrial park” in the Air Pollution Control Act, and successfully concluded the case by assisting clients to reach an out-of-court settlement during the course of a pending litigation. He also represented clients in administrative litigation where clients were facing potential cancellation of building permit issued for a NT$ 28 billion domestic major BOT construction project. He also represents renowned publicly-listed company in application for and handling of floor area ratio reward issue and in the floor-area-ratio-reward-derived administrative litigation regarding urban design, with the disputed amount amounting to NT$290 million. He also represented renowned publicly-listed telecom company in nationwide petition and administrative litigations involving Labor Standards Act, where he successfully secured favorable verdict for his client.
Mr. Lee is also experienced in public construction and PPP projects. He has represented renowned a Japanese corporation in suspension case arising out of a transport infrastructure construction with project value exceeding NT$20 billion, and represented client in a multi-billion NTD BOT contract dispute case.
Mr. Lee is also versed in architecture and construction laws, and contract dispute. He has represented renowned domestic construction company in multiple real estate-related litigations, including successfully requesting Administrative Court to waive multiple administrative penalties in the total amount of multi-million NTD on behalf of client, representing clients in over ten million NTD purchase and sale litigation, and in a maintenance fee-related litigation in connection with a mega apartment complex.
Publications
- Co-Author, Tax Investigation(Taipei: New Sharing Publishing, 2017)
- COVID-19 “Fair Trade” Regulations: Masks and Ear Thermometers Have Risen in Price, Is There a Law to Regulate?(The News Lens, 2020)
- “Will MOD become the same product market as cable after customers are able to subscribe to certain channels on their own?”(The Storm Media, 2019)
- Enterprises’ Concerted Actions During the Pandemic(Liberty Times, 2020)
- Hsinchu Lioneers report that Taipei Taishin Mars” maliciously poaching” Lin Bing-Sheng, is it a violation of the Fair Trade Act “sufficient to affect the order of trade”?(The News Lens, 2023)
- A Study on the Constitutionality of Paragraph 2, Article 85-1 of the Government Procurement Act(Master’s thesis, National Taipei University the College of Law, 2012)