Ashurst

Corporate Department

Senior Associate

Max Lee is a Senior Associate with the firm, who regularly handles government contract disputes, anti-trust and anti-bribery compliance issues, employment matters, data privacy, and intellectual property matters and has vast experience of court procedures and practice in the above areas.

His major practices in the above areas include:

Anti-trust investigation: Advised client on strategies responding to Taiwan Fair Trade Commission investigation, coordinated with legal counsels of foreign jurisdictions in aligning legal strategies, planned and carried out internal investigations for client that resulted in successful anti-trust risk identification and the subsequent remedial measures. Anti-bribery compliance: Planned and carried out investigation on client’s suspected employees/departments for possible corruptive practices, conducted interviews on suspected employees that successfully uncovered inappropriate payments, recommended clients of anti-corruption best practices aiming at minimizing potential anti-bribery risks. Public construction dispute resolution: Successfully represented clients in civil/criminal/administrative/arbitration proceedings concerning disputes in large public construction and public procurement projects, such as defending client against unreasonable administrative orders, obtaining favorable arbitration award in construction contract payment disputes. Trade secret protection: represented clients in trade secret misappropriation cases, including filing criminal complaints, cooperating with the prosecutors in investigating the crimes, conducting forensic analysis on trade secrets suspected to be stolen, etc. General corporate matters: reviewed and suggested modifications to employment agreements and employee handbooks, answered clients’ queries as to labor law issues, represented clients in business ownership disputes, drafted and reviewed various types of purchase agreements, distribution agreements, OEM agreements, R&D outsourcing agreements, etc.

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Taipei Bar Association New York Bar New York State Bar Association

Soochow University (LL.B., 2003) National Taiwan University (LL.M., 2009) Duke University School of Law (LL.M., 2018)