
Lawrence C. Lee
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.
Practice Focus
Representative Legal Matters
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Advised Instacart on its acquisition of Caper.ai
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Advised Coinbase on numerous strategic transactions
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Advised Affirm on its acquisitions of PayBright for approximately CAD 340 million, Returnly for approximately USD 300 million and Techees Recruiting
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Advised Jumio on its acquisition of Beam Solutions
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Advised Snowflake on its acquisitions of CryptoNumerics and Polidea
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Advised SAP on the sale of its SAP Digital Interconnect business to Sinch for approximately USD 240 million
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Advised Tencent on its acquisition of Funcom
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Advised the majority shareholders of MagicLab, which owns Badoo, Bumble, Chappy, and Lumen, on the pending majority stake sale to funds managed by Blackstone, valuing the company at approximately USD 3 billion
Prior to joining the Firm, Lawrence served as counsel to:
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Adobe in its USD 540 million acquisition of TubeMogul
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Facebook in its USD 16 billion acquisition of WhatsApp
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Oracle on numerous acquisitions, including its USD 9.3 billion acquisition of NetSuite; its USD 532 million acquisition of Opower; its USD 663 million acquisition of Textura; and its USD 5.3 billion acquisition of MICROS Systems
Professional Honors
- 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 - Co-chair, Partners Committee
Admissions
- California~United States
Education
- Harvard Law School (JD)
- University of California, Berkeley (AB)
Languages
- English
- Mandarin
Firm Committee Memberships
- Steering Committee for the North America Financial Institutions Group