Colleen T. Lee

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 collaboration with United Microelectronics Corporation to develop a 12-nanometer semiconductor process platform
  • 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

Ms. Lee was named by Best Lawyers as one of its Ones To Watch in 2023 and 2024, as well as a Rising Star in 2024 by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.

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 the firm’s award-winning Pro Bono Impact project, “Know Your Rights and Know the Law: Sex, Bullying and Social Media.”