Edward Lee

Edward J. Lee is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Ed’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and shareholder activism defense. Ed also regularly counsels corporations and boards of directors on securities law, corporate governance and crisis management. Ed has extensive experience advising major public companies and private equity firms on their most significant domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, as well as on spin-offs and carve-outs, joint ventures, and initial public and other complex securities offerings. During his career, he has advised on announced transactions with an aggregate value of over $850 billion. Ed has represented clients in some of the most significant and complex M&A transactions in recent years, including United Technologies’ $140 billion merger of equals with Raytheon Company and simultaneous spin-offs of Carrier Global and Otis Worldwide; Celgene Corporation’s $98 billion acquisition by Bristol Myers Squibb; Kimberly-Clark’s $49 billion acquisition of Kenvue; Walgreens Boots Alliance’s $24 billion sale to Sycamore Partners (the largest retail M&A transaction on record); Walgreens’ $27 billion two-staged acquisition of Alliance Boots GmbH; NortonLifeLock’s ~$25 billion combination with Avast; Salesforce’s $15.7 billion acquisition of Tableau; and Warner Bros. Discovery in its separation into two publicly traded companies. · Kirkland & Ellis LLP

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Edward J. Lee is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and shareholder activism defense. He also regularly counsels corporations and boards of directors on securities law, corporate governance and crisis management. He has extensive experience advising major public companies and private equity firms on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, spin-offs and carve-outs, joint ventures, and initial public and other complex securities offerings. He has advised on announced transactions with an aggregate value of over $850 billion.

Practice areas

Mergers and AcquisitionsShareholder Activism DefenseSecurities LawCorporate GovernanceCrisis ManagementSpin-offs and Carve-outsJoint VenturesInitial Public OfferingsComplex Securities Offerings

Office

United States

Kirkland & Ellis LLP · Edward J. Lee is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Ed’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and shareholder activism defense. Ed also regularly counsels corporations and boards of directors on securities law, corporate governance and crisis management. Ed has extensive experience advising major public companies and private equity firms on their most significant domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, as well as on spin-offs and carve-outs, joint ventures, and initial public and other complex securities offerings. During his career, he has advised on announced transactions with an aggregate value of over $850 billion. Ed has represented clients in some of the most significant and complex M&A transactions in recent years, including United Technologies’ $140 billion merger of equals with Raytheon Company and simultaneous spin-offs of Carrier Global and Otis Worldwide; Celgene Corporation’s $98 billion acquisition by Bristol Myers Squibb; Kimberly-Clark’s $49 billion acquisition of Kenvue; Walgreens Boots Alliance’s $24 billion sale to Sycamore Partners (the largest retail M&A transaction on record); Walgreens’ $27 billion two-staged acquisition of Alliance Boots GmbH; NortonLifeLock’s ~$25 billion combination with Avast; Salesforce’s $15.7 billion acquisition of Tableau; and Warner Bros. Discovery in its separation into two publicly traded companies.

United States

Expertise

Mergers and AcquisitionsShareholder Activism DefenseSecurities LawCorporate GovernanceCrisis Management

Education

Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude
Cornell University, B.S.

Languages

English (inferred)