Catherine H. Lee

Catherine Lee is a partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Corporate Department, Capital Markets Practice, and Financial Institutions Industry Group. Catherine serves on the firm’s Opinions committee.

Catherine advises clients on the structuring, negotiation, and execution of equity-linked capital markets transactions, structured repurchase transactions, issuer forward transactions, and complex over-the-counter derivative transactions for various hedging and monetization strategies, and equity and other derivative finance transactions, including margin loans secured by publicly traded shares, pre-IPO shares, and convertible and/or debt instruments. Catherine provides comprehensive market knowledge and valuable insights to both corporate and institutional clients on derivative, broker dealer and bank regulatory issues, insolvency and credit support concerns, as well as compliance matters.

In addition to derivatives, Catherine has practiced in the areas of cross-border corporate finance, private equity, strategic investment, joint ventures structured finance, investment management, and banking, covering a wide variety of commercial law issues.

Catherine has represented a number of global financial institution clients, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan, and Morgan Stanley.

Catherine also represents numerous “buy-side” clients of the firm on equity derivatives transactions and related issues, including corporate issuers like a public global biotechnology company, private equity and asset management funds, and sovereign wealth clients.

Catherine serves on the firm’s Opinions committee and previously served as Co-Chair of the firm’s Women Enriching Business (WEB) committee.