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Sey-Hyo Lee

Partner

Practice Description

Sey-Hyo Lee’s practice includes representation of corporate clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, divestitures, and public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities. In addition to his transactional experience, Mr. Lee regularly advises public company clients on securities law and corporate governance matters, including SEC filings and public disclosure matters, Sarbanes-Oxley Act Compliance, trading by insiders, board and board committee matters and compliance with NYSE and Nasdaq corporate governance-related requirements.

Representative Matters

  • Represented GLG Partners, Europe’s third largest hedge fund manager and eleventh largest fund manager globally, in its reverse acquisition transaction with Freedom Acquisition Holdings, Inc. to form GLG Partners, Inc., which is expected to be a NYSE-listed company. 
  • Represented ORBCOMM Inc. in its initial public offering and secondary offering of common stock listed on the Nasdaq Global Market. 
  • Represented Conexant in its stock-for-stock merger with GlobespanVirata, Inc., 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 Gulfstream Natural Resources, LLC in connection with its private placement of $850 million of notes. 
  • Represented Rockwell International Corporation 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. 
  • Represented SAP AG in connection with the establishment of an American Depository Receipt (ADR) program.

Activities and Affiliations

Mr. Lee is a member of the American Bar Association and the Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals.

Publications


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Practice Areas

Corporate

Capital Markets

Mergers and Acquisitions

Securities Compliance

Corporate Governance

Climate Change

Industries

Communications, Media and Technology

Consumer Products

Regions

North America

United States

Education

  • Harvard University, Harvard College, A.B., cum laude, 1988
  • Columbia Law School, J.D., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 1991

Admissions

1994

District of Columbia

1992

New York

Languages

English