
Colleen T. Lee
Counsel, Corporate
Colleen Lee focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and startup investments, spin-offs, carve-outs and other corporate matters.
Bio
Ms. Lee represents public and private buyers, sellers and target companies, and private equity firms in a variety of U.S. and cross-border acquisitions and dispositions, restructurings and minority strategic investments.
Ms. Lee’s matters include representing:
- Intel Corporation in several matters, including:
- its proposed but terminated $5.4 billion acquisition of Tower Semiconductor
- its acquisition of Granulate Cloud Solutions Ltd.
- the sale of its 5G smartphone modem business to Apple, Inc.
- the sale of its home gateway platform division to MaxLinear, Inc.
- Western Digital Corporation in its ongoing evaluation of strategic alternatives and its $900 million convertible preferred investment from Apollo and Elliott
- Bright Lights Acquisition Corp. in its proposed, but terminated, $1 billion merger with MANSCAPED
- View in its $1.6 billion merger with CF Finance Acquisition Corp. II
- PayPal Holdings, Inc. in several matters, including:
- its $4 billion acquisition of Honey Science Corporation
- its acquisition of Hyperwallet Systems Inc.
- its acquisition of Simility Systems
- Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. in several matters, including:
- its $14.3 billion acquisition by affiliates of Digital Colony Partners and the EQT Infrastructure IV fund
- its sale of zColo, including certain U.S. and European data center assets, to DataBank Holdings, Ltd.
- Sabre Corporation in its sale of the AirCentre suite of flight and crew management software solutions to CAE Inc. for $392.5 million
- Fortive Corporation in the separation and spin-off of its Automation and Specialty Platform (A&S Platform) and a $3 billion reverse Morris trust transaction involving the merger of its A&S Platform business with Altra Industrial Motion Corp.
- SJW Group in its $1.1 billion acquisition of Connecticut Water Service Inc. and its defense against a hostile takeover attempt by California Water Service Group
- Permira Funds in its $1.75 billion acquisition of Duff & Phelps
- Danaher Corporation in the separation and spin-off of its communications business and a $2.6 billion reverse Morris trust transaction involving the merger of its communications business with NetScout Systems, Inc.
- TAL International Group, Inc. in its $8.7 billion merger-of-equals transaction with Triton Container International Limited
- Endo International in a variety of transactions, including its sale of the American Medical-Systems male urology portfolio for $1.6 billion
- Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany in its $17 billion acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation
Ms. Lee also has represented companies in a variety of minority strategic investments, including:
- Mubadala Investment Co. in its investment in Waymo
- Tencent in various investments, including in Empower and Serverless
- PayPal in various investments, including in Anchor Labs
- Foot Locker, Inc. in its investment in Carbon38
- Peet’s Coffee in its investment in Revive Kombucha
In recognition of her work, Ms. Lee was named one of Best Lawyers’ 2023 and 2024 Ones To Watch.
Ms. Lee is a member of the Palo Alto office’s Diversity Committee and Skadden’s Global API Committee. She also is a leader in Skadden’s award-winning Pro Bono Impact project “Know Your Rights and Know the Law: Sex, Bullying and Social Media.”
Credentials
Education
- J.D., New York University School of Law, 2013 (cum laude; New York University Law Review)
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2010 (magna cum laude)
Admissions
- California
- New York
Colleen T. Lee
Counsel, Corporate
colleen.lee@skadden.com