Ken-Ying Tseng

Practice Areas

Ken-Ying Tseng specializes in mergers and acquisitions, personal data protection, artificial intelligence (such as autonomous vehicles), e-commerce, Internet governance, telecommunications, fintech, OTT, e-payment, P2P lending, domain names, e-signature, on-line game, cybersecurity, e-trading, ICP, MOD, cable TV, satellite TV and any other matters involving digital or digitalization. Ken-Ying also advises clients on corporate and foreign direct investment matters, general compliance, offshore and onshore listing, employment, and pharmaceutical-related matters, etc.

Career

Ken-Ying joined Lee and Li in 1999 and was made partner in 2006. She led the firm's M&A practice for more than 12 years after she was made partner and established Lee and Li's personal data protection practice group in 2012. She now heads the firm's Digital, TMT and Data Privacy Practice.

Meanwhile, due to her professional skills and reputation, Ken-Ying acts many other roles for the Taiwan government, international organizations, and the civil society. She represents Taiwan government at ICANN GAC and a Member- Civil Society Representative, "Open Government National Action Plan Taskforce", Executive Yuan, Taiwan. She is the co-chair of the Technology Committee of European Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan (ECCT), a member of the Digital Economy Commission, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), a managing director of the Taiwan Internet Governance Forum (TWIGF), a supervisor of the "Taiwan Internet and E-commerce Association" (TiEA), a director of National Information Infrastructure Enterprise Promotion Association (NII), and a director of the Digital Governance Association.

Professional Memberships

Taiwan Bar Association

Taipei Bar Association

International Association of Privacy Professionals

Languages Spoken

Mandarin

English

Publications

Taiwan’s AI strategy and regulatory framework, March 2025

https://law.asia/taiwan-ai-strategy-regulation-legal-framework/

Service Providers Engaged in the Wholesale and Resale of Subscriber Numbers to Register as Telecommunications Operators in order to Obtain Subscriber Numbers, March 2025

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=66dcde10-1c70-45c6-92ba-2de65907266a

Taiwan's AI governance framework unveiled, August 2024

https://iapp.org/news/a/taiwan-s-ai-governance-framework-unveiled

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Admitted in Taiwan and New York State, USA

Work Highlights

- Assisting a global hypermarket to consolidate its operation in Taiwan

- Assisting global players in establishing data centers in Taiwan

- Advising one of the largest state-own enterprises in the Asia Pacific region to acquire a multinational pharmaceuticals company in Taiwan

- Assisting global/regional PE funds disposing their semiconductor assets in Taiwan

- Advising the largest fast food chain in the world to restructure its local operation

- Advising large tech companies (including VR (metaverse), telecommunications, artificial intelligence, mobile devices, social media, satellite, etc.) on regulatory compliance and business entry into Taiwan

- Acting as the legal representative of a large offshore on-line platform for anti-scam matters

Education

Awards