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"Edward Lee is described by sources as "a leader in his field." He recently acted on the USD15 million sale of a software supplier to a BVI company." (Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the Legal Profession 2011)
 
"The “excellent” Edward Lee leads the team and remains a stalwart in the area; he recently advised on the £10 million asset sale of a medical service business." (Chambers UK, A Client’s Guide to the Legal Profession 2010)
 

Edward Lee is head of the Corporate Finance team and a specialist M&A partner.

His practice covers all types of corporate and commercial transactions, including domestic and international corporate finance, joint ventures, MBO/MBIs, refinancings and start-up investments. He has special expertise in transactions involving US companies making acquisitions in the UK.

Edward spent six months on secondment at Dun and Bradstreet as head of legal UK.

His clients include major corporations who he advises at Board level on corporate matters (some non-UK, some FTSE listed), serial acquirers, banks and major accountancy practices.

He is noted as a corporate finance expert in Chambers and Legal 500 legal directories and has a reputation for having a strong technical skill-set coupled with effective communication and people skills. He was described in Chambers as "a leader in his field".

Legal 500 has described him as "honest, straight and highly intelligent", "contactable day or night" and "an asset that enables the firm to compete with any London firm, but at a reasonable and realistic cost".

He is currently listed for Corporate Finance in "Best Lawyers" which is regarded by some as the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession in the US.

His recent experience includes advising:

  • DHL in its completion of the disposal of a number of UK and African companies · Meetic SA, Europe's largest online dating agency, on its purchase of Dating Direct, the UK target online dating agency. The deal was one of Acquisition Monthly's deals of the year
  • a German listed company on its c£50million acquisition of a UK company
  • on a multijurisdictional (four countries) reorganizational refinancing for a c €40million facility of a financial products company
  • the sellers of a Scottish software company to a US buyer backed by a US VC fund. Sale consideration included US promissory notes, an earn out and quoted shares
  • on the acquisition of a PSP (credit card software) company for a listed FTSE 250 PLC for c£11million
  • a top 15 global accountancy firm on its acquisition of a software supplier
  • on a c£100million disposal of a company to a PE house
  • on the disposals of dealerships for Inchcape plc in relation to a $1billion synthetic CDO product for a financial products company.