David C. Lee

David Lee offers sophisticated commercial insights for clients that reflect his experience in the private sector, with a focus on structuring and negotiating domestic and cross-border transactions for corporations, venture capital firms, and private equity houses.

David has experience across multiple practice areas, including M&A, private placements, initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, recapitalizations, take-private transactions, hostile takeover defense, and other complex corporate transactions involving a number of dynamic sectors, including the life science, health care, cleantech, energy, and digital media industries. He represents clients in their most important sales, acquisitions and licenses, new technologies, and other transactions. David also advises venture capital and private equity firms on their strategic investments and acquisitions throughout the investment life cycle and handles equity capital markets offerings on behalf of issuers and investment banks.

Before becoming a lawyer, David served as a certified public accountant in the audit and valuations department of Price Waterhouse and as controller and vice president of finance of a Fortune 500 energy company. He has served as the co-chairman of the transactions affinity group of the American Health Lawyers Association, and he has taught accounting courses at the UCLA Extension Program.