Joo Hyun Lee
The Grace Building
1114 Avenue of the Americas
32nd Floor
New York, New York 10036
Joo Hyun Lee’s principal area of practice is Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits. Joo provides guidance on a wide range of compensation and employee benefits issues arising in mergers and acquisitions, sales, and equity offerings, among others. She also advises public and private companies on a range of compensatory and benefit arrangements.
The following experience was completed prior to joining Vinson & Elkins.
Experience Highlights
A leading American private equity firm in connection with a number of transactions, including its investment in an American home security system company and its acquisition of an application security testing company; as well as its portfolio company, a leading provider of insurance technology and software, in its acquisition of an insurance application company
One of the largest independent fiber infrastructure bandwidth companies in its acquisition of a telecommunications service provider
A major REIT in its acquisition of a luxury hotel and casino and in its joint venture to acquire two additional luxury hotels and casinos
A British private equity firm in its sale of a global medical device company
A financial services company in its merger with a multinational financial technology services company
Credentials
- Stanford Law School, J.D., 2012
- Yale University, B.A., Political Science, cum laude, 2009
- Legal 500 U.S., Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation & Retirement Plans: Transactional, 2023 and 2024
- Selected to the New York Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2023
- New York
- Korean (fluent)
- Deals & CasesSeptember 11, 2024
- Deals & CasesJune 21, 2024
- Rankings & AwardsJune 12, 2024
- Enbridge to Enter into JV Connecting Permian Basin Natural Gas Supply to Growing LNG and USGC DemandDeals & CasesMarch 27, 2024
- Rankings & AwardsSeptember 22, 2023
- Rankings & AwardsJune 12, 2023
- Deals & CasesMay 3, 2023
- Deals & CasesApril 19, 2023
- Deals & CasesMarch 2, 2023
- Deals & CasesFebruary 28, 2023
- Press ReleaseNovember 1, 2022