David Lee, a partner in the firm’s Silicon Valley office, is a member of Orrick’s Emerging Companies Group, which advises emerging companies and venture capital firms. Mr. Lee practices in the areas of corporate formation, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, and technology licensing transactions.
Mr. Lee has an active practice representing China-focused emerging companies, both in the United States and in China, and heads Orrick's China Emerging Companies Group. Mr. Lee has represented one of China's leading Internet companies, Sina Corporation, since its initial public offering. In addition, Mr. Lee's practice involves a broad network of entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalists that are active in developing China-focused companies.
Mr. Lee's company clients have been backed by, among others, Accel, ComVentures, Doll Capital, Draper Fisher, Gobi Partners, Granite Global, GSR Ventures, Hummer Winblad, Lightspeed, Mayfield, NEA, Redpoint, Sequoia,  Walden, and Venrock.
Before joining Orrick, Mr. Lee was a founding member of Venture Law Group.
Representative engagements include:
• Sina Corporation, in its initial public offering.
• Sina Corporation, in its $100 million convertible bond offering.
• Foundry Networks, in its initial public offering.
• Flash Electronics, in its restructuring from a California corporation to a Cayman Islands corporation.
• Ramp Networks, in its initial public offering, and in its acquisition by Nokia.
• Quality Semiconductor, in its initial public offering.
• Quality Semiconductor, in its acquisition by Integrated Device Technology.
• Triscend Corporation, in its acquisition by Xilinx.
• Transmedia, in its acquisition by Cisco.
• Ardent Communications, in its acquisition by Cisco.
• Picasa, in its acquisition by Google.
• Ganji, in its acquisition by Google.
• Marvell Technology, in its Series C Preferred Stock financing.
• Motorola, in its acquisition of Indala, Lexicus and RadioMail.
• Motorola, in its corporate partnering deals with MCSI and Interactive Network.
• ESS Technology, in its acquisition of OSEE Technology and its acquisition of VideoCore.