Jean Lee
Partner
Overview
Jean A. Lee is a corporate attorney in Holland & Knight's Newport Beach office and a member of the Corporate, M&A and Securities Section. Ms. Lee focuses her practice on representing public and private companies, private equity sponsors and financial advisors in complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), take-private transactions, divestitures and tax receivable agreement (TRA) buyout transactions. Ms. Lee also advises companies and their boards of directors in connection with corporate governance matters.
Ms. Lee has more than a decade of experience advising clients on sophisticated strategic and sponsor-backed transactions. She provides practical, business-oriented counsel throughout every stage of a transaction, from structuring and negotiation through closing. Her practice spans a variety of industries, with particular experience in the technology, life sciences and semiconductor industries.
Fluent in Korean, Ms. Lee also advises Korean clients on cross-border corporate transactions and corporate governance matters in support of Holland & Knight's Korea Practice.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Lee represented public and private companies, private equity sponsors and strategic acquirers in a broad range of sophisticated M&A matters, including take-private transactions, as well as corporate governance and capital markets matters.
While in law school, Ms. Lee served on the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal.
Representative Experience
- Representation of a private equity firm in numerous matters, including its $825 million take-private acquisition of a digital typesetting and typeface design company and $446 million take-private acquisition of a vitamin and nutritional supplements company
- Representation of a private equity firm in numerous matters, including its $3.5 billion take-private acquisition of a private technology workforce development and online education company, $1.94 billion take-private acquisition of a company that develops technology business management software as a service (SaaS) applications, $1.55 billion acquisition of the education business of a prominent research, consulting and technology firm, $564 million take-private acquisition of a leading provider of sales performance management software solutions, and $1.6 billion take-private acquisition of a technology company that unifies core network services and cybersecurity
- Representation of a private equity firm in its $2.9 billion acquisition of an American technology and information services company
- Representation of a NASDAQ-listed software company in its pending sale of all business assets
- Representation of a NASDAQ-listed pharmaceutical company in its $1.1 billion sale to a global investment firm
- Representation of a NASDAQ-listed clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in its $7.8 billion (upfront cash and contingent value right) sale to a publicly traded U.S. drug company
- Representation of a NASDAQ-listed commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company in its $3.9 billion sale to a publicly traded German healthcare and life sciences company
- Representation of a NASDAQ-listed clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in its pending reverse merger transaction
- Representation of a cloud-based IT management company in its $252 million acquisition of an ASX-listed software company
- Representation of a NASDAQ-listed immunotherapy company in its $700 million sale to a publicly traded U.S. pharmaceutical company
- Representation of a sponsor-backed oncology biotech company in its take-private acquisition of a NASDAQ-listed biotechnology company
- Representation of a publicly traded global telecommunications and digital infrastructure company in its $100 million take-private acquisition of an NYSE-listed global cloud communications and communications platform as a service (CPaaS) provider
- Representation of a publicly traded auctioneer and marketplace in its $7.3 billion take-private acquisition of an NYSE-listed global digital marketplace
- Representation of a NASDAQ-listed online social commerce marketplace in its $1.6 billion acquisition by a KRX-listed online portal and search engine company
- Representation of a NASDAQ-listed enterprise identity security platform in its $6.9 billion sale to a U.S. private equity firm
- Representation of a NASDAQ-listed restaurant group in its $650 million sale to a U.S. private equity firm
- Representation of an NYSE-listed automotive company in its $3.3 billion sale to a global automotive supplier
- Representation of an NYSE-listed grocery and food service company in its $1.12 billion sale to a U.S. private equity firm
Credentials
- University of Southern California Gould School of Law, J.D.
- University of Southern California, MBA
- University of California, Berkeley, B.S.
- California
- Korean American Bar Association