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 and a member of the Firm's Corporate and Securities Practice Group. Lawrence regularly advises public and private companies, as well as investment banks and private equity funds, in connection with M&A transactions across a variety of industries, with a focus on the technology sector. He most recently 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.

Practice Focus

Lawrence's practice focuses primarily on public and private company merger and acquisition transactions and takeover defense, as well as private equity transactions, venture capital investments, LBOs, recapitalizations and spin-off 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 cryptocurrency industry on corporate transactions.

Representative Legal Matters

Advised Tencent Holdings Ltd. on its acquisition of Funcom NV.
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:

Adobe Systems Incorporated in its USD 540 million acquisition of TubeMogul, Inc.
CSL Behring in its USD 416 million acquisition of Calimmune, Inc.
Facebook, Inc. in its USD 16 billion acquisition of WhatsApp Inc.
HCL Technologies, Inc. and Sumeru Equity Partners in their USD 330 million acquisition of Actian Corporation
Oracle Corporation on numerous acquisitions, including its USD 9.3 billion acquisition of NetSuite Inc.; its USD 532 million acquisition of Opower, Inc.; its USD 663 million acquisition of Textura Corporation; and its USD 5.3 billion acquisition of MICROS Systems Inc.
Merz Pharma in its USD 600 million acquisition of Ulthera, Inc.
Rakuten, Inc. in its acquisition of Curbside, Inc.
Softbank Group in its USD 2 billion investment in GM Cruise.

Professional Honors

Super Lawyers Rising Star, Northern California, 2015-2018

Admissions

California~United States

Education

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

Languages

English
Mandarin

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