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Frank
Lee
Partner
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Co-Chair, Energy Practice Group
Frank Lee focuses his practice principally on corporate finance and securities, mergers and acquisitions, SEC compliance and corporate governance, with particular emphasis on the utility and renewable energy industries. Over the last decade, Mr. Lee has advised publicly traded and privately held energy companies and their boards of directors or shareholders in fourteen completed merger, acquisition or asset transactions involving publicly traded energy companies. His practice also includes regulatory matters in connection with energy mergers, acquisitions and finance.
Mr. Lee has extensive experience representing issuers and underwriters in securities offerings and other financing matters, including public offerings, private placements, and Rule 144A distributions of secured and unsecured debt, common and preferred equity, hybrid securities, tax-exempt securities, trust preferred securities, public/private debt exchanges, issuer tender offers, and consent solicitations. He acts as regular underwriters’ and issuer’s counsel for a number of energy and utility companies in the U.S. and has been involved in the issuance of over $5 billion of securities in the last decade.
Mr. Lee recently represented a publicly held U.S. electric utility company in its merger with a Canadian utility holding company, a major investment bank in several tax/equity investments in renewable energy assets, a Canadian utility holding company in its acquisition of a controlling interest in a Caribbean utility, a U.S. utility holding company in its acquisitions of five publicly held utility holding companies, a U.K. gas utility company in its merger with another U.K. utility company having major operations in the U.S. and an infrastructure fund in its acquisition of a transmission company.
Mr. Lee has also represented owners, purchasers, developers, sponsors, investors and financing entities in the financing, development, acquisition or sale of transmission facilities and all manner of generation facilities, including merchant and peaking fossil fuel fired facilities, and renewable generation facilities, including solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and waste-to-energy facilities. He has also advised utility and non-utility companies on the corporate and regulatory aspects of energy industry restructuring. His clients include investor owned utilities, investment banks, private equity funds, renewable energy developers and project sponsors, solar panel manufacturers and private companies.
Prior Work Experience
Prior to joining Loeb & Loeb LLP, Mr. Lee was Administrative Partner of the New York office of Day Pitney LLP.
Representative Experience
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Represented investor owned utility in $700 million merger with a Canadian utility holding company
- Represented major shareholder of a European investor owned utility in $13.7 billion acquisition of a U.K. energy holding company with U.S. utility operations
- Represented investor owned utility holding company in $960 million merger with another investor owned utility holding company
- Represented infrastructure fund in $213 million acquisition of a transmission company
- Represented investor owned utility holding company in $1.8 billion merger with another investor owned utility holding company
- Represented major investment bank in tax equity investments in wind and geothermal generation facilities
- Represented investor owned utility holding company in $436 million merger with another investor owned utility holding company
- Represented U.K. investor owned utility holding company in $9.4 billion merger with another U.K. investor owned utility holding company
- Represented investor owned utility holding company in $350 million merger with another investor owned utility holding company
- Represented Canadian investor owned utility holding company in $22 million acquisition of a controlling voting interest in a Carribean investor owned utility company
- Represented Canadian energy investment fund in acquisitions of U.S. hydro facilities
- Represented investor owned utility holding company in $96 million merger with another investor owned utility holding company
- Represented investor owned utility holding company in $2 billion sale of generation assets
Publications/Speeches
- Speaker, Infocast Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit, San Diego, California (March 21-24, 2011)
- Speaker, Infocast Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit, San Diego, California (March 17-19, 2010)
- Speaker, Infocast Transmission Summit, Arlington, Virginia (March 12-13, 2007)
- Speaker, Infocast Transmission Summit, Arlington, Virginia (March 13-14, 2006)
- Speaker, Infocast Energy Policy and Regulation Summit, Washington, DC (November 1-2, 2005)
- Speaker, Wall Street Forum Utility Mergers & Acquisitions Conference, Boston, Massachusetts (June 6-7, 2005)
- Speaker, Infocast Transmission Summit, Arlington, Virginia (March 7-9, 2005)
Affiliations
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, New York State Bar Association, Committee on Securities Regulation
- Member, Bar Association for the City of New York
Distinctions
- Named in The Legal 500 US in Mergers & Acquisitions, published by Legalease Limited and John Pritchard (2010 edition)
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