Lee has a decade of experience advising clients through some of their most complex and high-stakes matters. Lee’s current and former clients cover the waterfront, ranging from Fortune 20 companies to institutional investors, developers, landlords, tenants, and more. In commercial real-estate matters, Lee helps guide his clients through deals across many types of asset classes and value ranges. Outside of real-estate transactions, clients have also looked to Lee for problem-solving guidance in various other types of matters, including contract negotiations, construction disputes, internal and external investigations, and regulatory-compliance issues.

Lee began his career by clerking for a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, where he assisted the judge in appeals of civil cases and criminal convictions. Lee then worked in Atlanta at the international law firm Alston & Bird, where he focused his practice on litigation and arbitration across the country. Lee’s experience included several matters that reached the U.S. Supreme Court, and his work touched on many sectors, including manufacturing, finance, technology, healthcare, and retail. Lee is admitted to the Georgia Bar, all levels of the state courts of Georgia, and many federal courts in Georgia and elsewhere.

After Alston & Bird, Lee served The Home Depot as in-house counsel at its Atlanta headquarters. At Home Depot, Lee managed and advised on many of the company’s most complex matters, including real-estate disputes, supplier disputes, class-action litigation, cybersecurity issues, and investigations. Lee also advised Home Depot’s government-relations team on legislative and policy matters involving the company, including those affecting its real-property interests.

Lee lived all over growing up, moving between South Carolina, San Francisco, and the south of France. For Lee’s undergraduate studies, he attended Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, where he graduated summa cum laude. Lee then attended the University of Georgia School of Law, where he served in leadership on the Georgia Law Review and graduated first in his class.

Lee and his wife Ella are grateful to have three young kids. Lee’s kids fill up most of his free time, and he loves to hike, fish, hunt, and otherwise enjoy the outdoors with his family. Lee also serves in leadership at his church, Brookhaven Presbyterian Church, and he serves on the board of the nonprofit Center for Global Strategies. Lee is fluent in French.

Advised a Fortune 25 company in all types of real-estate disputes, including on issues related to industrial properties, shopping-center developments, easement agreements, and more.

Managed a Fortune 25 company’s amicus-briefing program, which included filing briefs in significant cases in the federal appellate system, the Georgia Supreme Court, and the Georgia Court of Appeals. Those cases resulted in many favorable results.

Represented a manufacturer of chemical compounds in intellectual-property litigation with former company management.

Supervised multiple investigations related to potential employee theft, on behalf of a large company.

Represented a foreign sovereign in litigation involving a criminal subpoena; the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

Successfully defended a supplier of construction materials against antitrust-conspiracy allegations.

Supervised and won more than half-a-dozen arbitrations involving breach of contract claims against a Fortune 25 healthcare company.

Represented a technology company in international arbitrations that resulted in significant damages awards to our client.

Successfully defended a technology manufacturer against nine-figure damages claims.

Lee is active in multiple Atlanta-area nonprofits and ministries, including his church, Brookhaven Presbyterian Church; Young Life for the Perimeter North area, where his wife Ella serves on staff; and the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, where he serves on the Leadership Council. Lee also serves on the board of the nonprofit Center for Global Strategies, and he has previously been nominated to serve as a Barrister in the Clarke-Carley Inn of Court in Atlanta.