Patricia M. Lee
Partner
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.
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Represented specialty chemical company, in connection with its $750 million unsecured revolving credit facility.
Represented graphite material science company, in connection with its private offering of $300 million Senior Notes.
Represented specialty chemical company, in connection with its public offering of $350 million Senior Notes.
State of New York, 1984
State of Connecticut, 2016
‘ISDA using Digital Asset clearing and DLT technical advances and international legal issues,’ Withers Insight - December 4, 2020, co-author
‘ISDA and Digital Asset Launch a CDM Clearing Pilot Using DAML with Distributed Ledger Technology,’ Withers Insight - October 12, 2020, co-author
‘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
‘Hot Securities Law Issues for Small Businesses’, ABA Section of Business Law Spring Meeting, Washington, D.C., February 1, 2007, panelist
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- English