Grace Lee

Grace Lee focuses her practice on general corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, venture capital financings and securities law compliance.

Grace works with a variety of public and private clients including tech companies and startups, primarily in the artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain/cryptocurrency, SaaS, semiconductor, life sciences, digital health and cybersecurity sectors.

Representative Experience

Represented Netskope, global cybersecurity leader, in its $300 million investment round led by ICONIQ Growth and $401 million oversubscribed investment round led by Morgan Stanley Tactical Value.
Represented Eat Just, Inc., a company that produces plant-based and cultured meat products, in its $200 million funding round led by the Qatar Investment Authority and in the $170 million funding round of GOOD Meat (a subsidiary of Eat Just Inc.).
Represented Everi Holdings Inc. (NYSE: EVRI), one of the largest suppliers of technology solutions for the casino floor, in its $6.2 billion definitive agreement to merge with International Game Technology PLC (NYSE: IGT).

Representative Mergers & Acquisitions Experience
- Represented Airgap Networks Inc., the leader in cybersecurity solutions for business-critical networks, in its acquisition by Zscaler, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZS).
- Represented Concentrix Corporation (NASDAQ: CNXC), a leading global provider of customer experience (CX) services and technologies, in its $4.8 billion agreement to combine with Webhelp SAS.
- Represented Acer Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACER), a pharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development and commercialization of therapies for serious rare and life-threatening diseases, in its $91 million merger with Zevra Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZVRA).
- Represented Blockchain Coinvestors Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: BCSA), a special purpose acquisition company, in its acquisition of Qenta Inc.
- Represented Movella Inc., a leading provider of sensors, software and analytics, in its $537 million business combination with Pathfinder Acquisition Corp. and definitive agreement to be publicly listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
- Represented Pluribus Networks, Inc., a unified cloud networking company, in its acquisition by Arista Networks, Inc.
- Represented Reflektion, Inc., the developer of an AI-powered customer engagement platform, in its acquisition by Sitecore.

Representative Venture Capital Financings Experience
- Represented Elisity, an identity-based micro-segmentation company, in connection with its $37 million Series B funding round led by Insight Partners.
- Represented Chevron Technology Ventures in connection with its investment in Sea Machines’ $12 million funding round.
- Represented HealthQuest Capital as lead investor in connection with its investment in Inbound Health’s $30 million Series B financing round.
- Represented Graphiant, Inc., a provider of next-generation edge services, in its $62 million Series B financing round led by Two Bear Capital.
- Represented Alongside Finance, Inc., a crypto index-focused platform, in its $11 million financing round.
- Represented HYPR Corp., an enterprise security software company, in its $35 million Series C financing led by Advent Tech and $25 million Series C1 financing led by Advent Tech.
- Represented Quino Energy, Inc., a clean-tech startup company, in its $3.3 million seed funding round led by ANRI.
- Represented iQuantum Inc., a market-leading end-to-end eProcurement solution built for global enterprises, in its $3 million Series Seed Preferred capitalization financing led by Naples Technology Ventures.
- Represented Airgap Networks, a ransomware prevention platform, in its $13.4 million Series A financing led by Storm Ventures.
- Represented Orkes Inc., an enterprise microservices and workflow orchestration platform, in its $9.3 million funding round co-led by Battery Ventures and Vertex Ventures.
- Represented Infermedica Inc., a digital health company, in its $30 million Series B financing led by One Peak.
- Represented Willow Industries, Inc., a cannabis decontamination and kill-step technology company, in its $2 million Series A financing led by a top-tier syndicate of institutional investors including Panther Group, LAGO Innovation Fund and PhytoPartners.
- Represented Alokai (formerly known as Vue Storefront Inc.), a global technology startup for ecommerce businesses, in its $17.4 million Series A financing led by Creandum and $20 million equity financing round led by Felix Capital.
- Represented Concept Art House, Inc., the creator of art for video games and nonfungible token collectibles, in its $25 million Series A financing from leading investors, NFT platforms, and angel investors including prominent CEOs and tech founders.
- Represented Manticore Games, Inc., a developer of user-built games, in its $100 million Series C financing led by XN.

Representative Securities Offerings Experience
- Represented Vincerx Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: VINC), a biopharmaceutical company, in its $16.5 million public offering of common stock and warrants.
- Represented Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO), a provider of storage, archive, and data protection, in its $67.5 million oversubscribed Rights Offering, a deal honored as the 2022 Best Governance Around a Corporate Transaction by Corporate Secretary.
- Represented TD SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX), a leading global distributor and solutions aggregator for the IT ecosystem, in its $885 million secondary public offering, $745.2 million secondary public offering and $87.3 million secondary public offering.

Professional Highlights

Judicial extern to Judge Ethan P. Schulman (Summer 2018)

Education

J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Berkeley Law), 2020

B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2015
Political Science and Media Studies, Dean's List

Admissions

California

Languages

Korean

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