Lawrence C. Lee

Partner

Baker & McKenzie LLP

Palo Alto

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Biography

Lawrence C. Lee is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Palo Alto office. Lawrence regularly advises clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions and other complex corporate transactions across a variety of industries, with a particular focus on the technology sector.

Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Lawrence served as in-house counsel for a San Francisco digital currency exchange where he led all corporate and strategic transactions and investments. From 2015 to 2018, he was selected by California Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in Mergers and Acquisitions. In 2020, Lawrence was selected by Law360 as a Top Attorney Under 40 in the Technology sector. In 2022, Lawrence was selected by The American Lawyer as a finalist for its Young Lawyer of the Year (Corporate) Industry Award.

Practice Focus

Lawrence's practice focuses extensively on all forms of mergers and acquisitions transactions, private equity sales and acquisitions, corporate venture capital investments, and other complex corporate transactions. Lawrence also advises companies and their boards of directors on corporate governance and securities law compliance matters. Additionally, he has significant experience representing clients in the fintech industry on strategic corporate transactions.

Representative Legal Matters

Advised Adobe in its acquisition of Brio XR
Advised Affirm on numerous acquisitions and strategic transactions, including its acquisitions of PayBright for approximately CAD 340 million and Returnly for approximately USD 300 million
Advised Armature Studio in its acquisition by Meta
Advised Coinbase on numerous acquisitions and strategic transactions, including its investment in Coinswitch Kuber at a valuation of USD 1.9 billion and its acquisition of Agara
Advised Instacart on its acquisition of Caper.ai
Advised Jumio on its acquisitions of Beam Solutions and 4Stop
Advised Snowflake on its acquisitions of CryptoNumerics, Polidea, the engineering team of Pragmatists and the SnowConvert business of Mobilize.net
Advised SAP on the sale of its SAP Digital Interconnect business to Sinch for approximately USD 240 million
Advised Tencent on its acquisition of Funcom
Advised Xperi in its acquisition of Vewd Software at a valuation of USD 109 million
Advised Yageo in its acquisition of Schneider Electric’s Telemecanique Sensors business at a valuation of EUR 723 million

Prior to joining the Firm, Lawrence served as counsel to:

Adobe in its USD 540 million acquisition of TubeMogul
Facebook in its USD 16 billion acquisition of WhatsApp

Professional Honors

Honorable Mention, M&A Middle-Market Deal of the Year Xperi Holding Corporation in its Acquisition of Vewd Software, May 2023
Finalist, The American Lawyer Young Lawyer of the Year (Corporate), 2022
Honorable Mention, M&A Middle-Market Deal of the Year for Affirm's Acquisition of PayBright, May 2021
Law360 Top Attorneys Under 40, Technology, 2020
Super Lawyers Rising Star, Northern California, 2015-2018

Professional Associations and Memberships

Asian Law Alliance - Advisory Board
Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Silicon Valley

Admissions

California~United States

Education

Harvard Law School (JD)
University of California, Berkeley (AB)

Languages

English
Mandarin

Speaker, "Digital Assets: Everything You Need to Know Before Acquiring", FT Big Deal Series, Baker McKenzie Webinar, April 2022

Interview, "M&A Attorney Lawrence C. Lee at Baker McKenzie: 'We will likely experience continuing consolidation in the Fintech sector'," Crowdfund Insider, 23 March 2021

Co-author, “Investing in Distressed Tech Start-Ups,” Bloomberg Law, September 2020

Firm Committee Memberships

Steering Committee for the North America Financial Institutions Group

Baker & McKenzie LLP is a Limited Liability Partnership organized under the laws of the State of Illinois (USA) and is a member of Baker & McKenzie International, a Verein organized under the laws of Switzerland.