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Patricia M. Lee
Secretary Joyce Davis
Patricia is a partner in our corporate team.
Her practice focuses on corporate finance and securities, debt financing, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate counseling. She has extensive experience in cross-border secured and unsecured credit agreements including revolvers, term facilities, asset-based loans and bridge facilities, international project financings, high yield debt offerings, acquisition financings, corporate restructurings, securities offerings and cross-border acquisitions and divestitures.Her experience spans a wide variety of industries including basic manufacturing, technology, telecommunications, logistics, petrochemical, financial institutions and media.
Patricia has represented banks, administrative agents, investment banks, borrowers, finance companies, sellers and buyers. She regularly represents multinational and US-based corporations in lending and capital raising work, as well as M&A transactions. She has extensive experience in representing both lenders and borrowers in art loans.
Patricia has presented or been a panel member at conferences and CLEs on such topics as telecommunication financing, SPACs, and corporate governance.
Prior to joining Withers, Patricia was a partner at Kelly, Drye & Warren LLP. She began her legal career as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.
Experience
Track record
Specialty chemical company
Represented specialty chemical company, in connection with its $750 million unsecured revolving credit facility.
Graphite material science company
Represented graphite material science company, in connection with its private offering of $300 million Senior Notes.
Specialty chemical company
Represented specialty chemical company, in connection with its public offering of $350 million Senior Notes.
Specialty chemical company
Represented specialty chemical company, in connection with its $750 million commercial paper program.
Refinancing and restructuring
Represented lenders in the refinancing and restructuring of $200 million of a pulp facility.
Project financing
Represented lenders in the project financing of a $500 million newsprint facility and a $750 million pulp facility.
Graphite materials science company
Represented a graphite materials science company in multiple cross-border secured financings ranging in size from $400 million to $570 million.
Logistics company
Represented a logistics company, owned principally by private equity, in multiple secured credit agreement financings of bolt-on acquisitions.
Talks
'Hot Securities Law Issues for Small Businesses', ABA Section of Business Law Spring Meeting, Washington, D.C., February 1, 2007, panelist
Insight
External publications
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'ISDA using Digital Asset clearing and DLT technical advances and international legal issues,' Withers Insight - December 4, 2020, co-author
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'ISDA and Digital Asset Launch a CDM Clearing Pilot Using DAML with Distributed Ledger Technology,' Withers Insight - October 12, 2020, co-author
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'Your lenders have called - What should you do now? Insights for US businesses navigating the impact of the coronavirus,' Withers Insight - May 5, 2020, co-author
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'The Art Market Adjusts: Banks loan consideration in times of market dips,' Withers Insight - March 25, 2020, co-author
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'Checklist of Routine Annual and Other Activities to be Completed by Voluntary Filers,' Withers Insight, December 2017, co-author
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'Going-dark-presents-traps-for-unwary-companies-following-an-acquisition', New York Law Journal, October 2015, co-author
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'Corporate Governance Update: Developments at the SEC, ISS and More," The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, March 21, 2014, co-author
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'NASDAQ Files Rule Change with SEC Concerning Internal Controls', Lexology, March 8, 2013, co author
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'Rule 506 Offerings: Advertising and General Solicitation Permitted, "Bad Actors Disqualified" -- Advance Notice Requirement Proposed', Lexology, July 23, 2013, co-author
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'The Monthly Corporate Governance Update', Lexology (Kelley Drye), October 2012 - January 2015, co-author
Admissions
State of New York, 1984
State of Connecticut, 2016
Education
Fordham University School of Law, cum laude, J.D.
Smith College, B.A.
The MacDuffie School
Languages
- English
Key dates
- Year joined: 2015
- Year became partner: 2015