Sey-Hyo Lee

Partner

Practice Description

Representative Matters

• Represented GLG Partners, Inc., a NYSE-listed global asset manager, in its $1.6 billion going-private acquisition by U.K.-based Man Group plc, a LSE-listed hedge fund, through a concurrent merger and stock exchange transaction. The transaction was reported to be the largest ever cross-border merger between two publicly-traded independent hedge funds.
• Represented GLG Partners, a leading alternative asset manager, in its $3.4 billion transaction to access public markets through a reverse acquisition with Freedom Acquisition Holdings, Inc.
• Represented ORBCOMM Inc. in its initial public offering and secondary offering of common stock listed on the Nasdaq Global Market. 
• Represented Conexant in the spin-off of its Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. Internet infrastructure business, and the spin-off and merger of its wireless communications business with Alpha Industries, Inc. to form Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
• Represented Visteon Corporation in the divestiture of non-core North American-based aftermarket and underhood and remanufacturing facilities in Sparta, Tennessee and Reynosa, Mexico. 
• Represented Gulfstream Natural Resources, LLC in connection with its private placement of $850 million of notes. 
• Represented Rockwell International Corporation (now Rockwell Automation, Inc.) in the disposition of its aerospace and defense businesses to The Boeing Company and the spin-off of its semiconductor systems business as Conexant Systems, Inc. 
• Represented JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse, ABN-Amro and BNP Paribas, as underwriters, in connection with several public offerings of notes by Mid-American Energy Company aggregating over $1 billion. 
• Representing the nominating and governance committee of AOL, Inc., as independent counsel, on corporate governance matters.

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