Yiqiang "Lee" Li provides a full range of legal services in connection with foreign investment and commercial matters in China.
Lee's practice focuses on work involving the telecommunications, chemical, automotive, manufacturing, architectural, hospitality, insurance and finance industries. He advises companies conducting business in China on a wide range of matters, including:
- Structuring, negotiating and documenting international technology licensing arrangements, acquisitions, joint ventures and the establishment of wholly foreign-owned enterprises
- Negotiating, drafting and ensuring compliance with PRC regulatory requirements of various commercial contracts, including franchising deals
- Real estate transactions
- Advising clients on PRC intellectual property rights enforcement and litigation matters
- Providing compliance advice regarding labor and customs matters
- Lobbying various Chinese authorities on foreign investment approvals and other regulatory matters
- Conducting due diligence and internal corporate investigations, including in relation to the FCPA.
- Representing clients in dispute settlement and bankruptcy proceedings
- Advising Chinese clients in offshore M&A transactions and IPO listings
Notably, Lee has represented clients on the following matters or areas:
- Representing creditors on the Creditor's Steering Committee in the Guangdong International Investment Company (GITIC) bankruptcy case—the largest bankruptcy case in China to date
- Advising, structuring and drafting agreements in Flextronics' successful acquisition of the notebook business from Arima Computer for U.S.$190 million
- Successfully assisting a PRC company in defending trade secret misappropriation claims in the United States relating to a multibillion-RMB acetic acid plant in China—the first case in which a PRC company has won a major IP infringement case outside of China
- Representing INVISTA and other clients in chemical and other industries on various technology licensing projects involving licensing fees worth hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars
- Representing KPF, NBBJ, Perkins & Will, Gensler and other major U.S. architectural firms in their China matters and projects
Lee has published articles and spoken on mergers and acquisitions, technology transferring, intellectual property, real estate and other areas of Chinese law in a variety of venues, and he has served as editor of the largest legal dictionary in China.
Before joining Faegre Baker Daniels, Lee was the principal Chinese lawyer in the Shanghai office of another U.S. law firm. He also served as assistant professor of law at Fudan University School of Law in Shanghai from 1990-92.