Michael D. Lee - Partner

Contact information:   Telephone: +886-2-2536-9700 Fax: +886-2-2531-5814 Email: mlee@pamirlaw.com Add to Skype Call Now Via Skype

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Personal Practice Summary

Michael Lee is a Partner of Pamir Law Group. His practice focuses on international corporate and commercial transactions for multinational and local companies throughout Greater China.

China transactions include aircraft leasing and financing, mergers and acquisitions, cross-border investments, tax-advantageous corporate structuring and technology transfer and licensing.

Taiwan transactions include inbound and outbound private equity investment transactions, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions venture capital, telecommunications, new media, intellectual property and general corporate and commercial transactions.

Michael's U.S. legal experience encompasses federal and state securities laws, initial public offerings, NYSE and NASDAQ listings and compliance, public company periodic reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Delaware and California corporate law, Silicon Valley-styled venture capital financing and corporate and commercial transactions for venture-funded high technology companies.

Professional Association and Activities

• California State Bar (1995)
• Chinese American Professionals in Taiwan, Chairman (2001-2005)
• American Chamber of Commerce, Taipei
• European Council of Commerce and Trade
• Taiwan Business Leader's Forum
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• American Bar Association

Honors and Awards

• AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers Award (2003–2008) in
• Venture Capital & Private Equity
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Capital Markets & Corporate Finance
• General Corporate Practice
• Intellectual Property
• Editor-in-Chief, Pacific Law Journal (now McGeorge Law Review), (1994-1995) (First Asian Pacific American in the school’s history)
• American Jurisprudence Award in Civil Procedure
• Traynor Honor Society
• Dean's Honor Roll

Professional Employment

• Pamir Law Group, Taipei, Taiwan, Partner (2004-present)
• Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP, Taipei, Taiwan, Associate (1999-2004)
• Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP), Palo Alto, California, Associate (1995-1999)

Education

• J.D. with Distinction, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (1995)
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California at Irvine (1992)

Languages

• English
• Mandarin
• Cantonese
• Toi-san dialect
• Taiwanese