Kate J. Lee is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation and White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Groups.
Named a 2023 BTI Client Service All-Star, Kate has represented individuals and multi-national corporations in pending and active international investigations and cross-border lawsuits. Kate has represented clients in shareholder disputes, complex civil litigation, licensing and contract disputes, securities enforcement proceedings, and criminal investigations and prosecutions by U.S. government agencies, including the SDNY, DOJ, SEC, FTC, and FINRA.
Kate regularly advises clients on proactive compliance assessments, compliance policies and programs, and pre-acquisition due diligence projects in connection with cross-border corporate acquisitions, private equity investments, and other business transactions. Kate has conducted risk assessments spanning multiple jurisdictions, and has advised corporations in formulating policies, procedures, and training materials related to intellectual property and trade secrets, data privacy and data protection, labor and employment, safety, health, and environment, document management, anti-bribery and anti-corruption, sanctions and export controls, and antitrust. Kate regularly conducts corporate compliance training on behalf of global corporations.
Kate received her Juris Doctor in 2019 from Columbia Law School, where she was a James Kent Scholar, a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and the Editor-in-Chief of the American Review of International Arbitration. Kate represented Columbia at the 24th and 25th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, placing 3rd and 5th and winning the Pieter Sanders Award for the Best Memorandum. She also represented Columbia at the 2018 Judith S. Kaye Arbitration competition, winning first place.
Kate is the 2019 recipient of the Carol B. Liebman Mediation Prize, and a Peace Institute Certified Mediator. While in law school, she led the Conflict Resolution, Mediation, and Multilateral Negotiations workshops at the United Nations.
Kate is fluent in Korean and conversant in Mandarin Chinese and Indonesian. Kate is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
Capabilities
- White Collar Defense and Investigations
- Class Actions
- Crisis Management
- International Arbitration
- National Security
- Securities Litigation
- Transnational Litigation
- Trials
Credentials
Education:
- Columbia University - 2019 Juris Doctor
- Columbia University - 2014 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- New York Bar