O’Melveny Worldwide

Jeeho Lee

Partner

New York Office
Areas of Focus
Areas of Focus
Capital Markets
Strategic Counseling & Crisis Management
Data Centers
Emerging Companies
Public Company Advisory
Securities Regulation
Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainability
Overview Experience Insights News Credentials

Jeeho is Chair of O’Melveny’s Capital Markets Practice and has extensive experience representing US and foreign issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings, secondary offerings, private placements, debt offerings, including investment grade issuances and high-yield offerings, and debt restructuring transactions such as exchange offers. In addition, she assists public companies with securities law compliance, disclosure issues, and corporate governance matters. Jeeho also advises issuers, advisors, and funds with respect to the corporate, security law, and transactional aspects of financial restructuring matters and SPAC transactions.

Jeeho has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by the International Financial Law Review every year since 2014. Recently, Jeeho was one of five capital markets lawyers recognized by Law360 as a Rising Star under 40 and was named to both Lawdragon’s 500 Global Leaders in Crisis Management Guide and The American Lawyer's second annual list of Northeast Trailblazers, which recognizes “professionals in the Northeast who have moved the needle in the legal industry.”

Jeeho’s issuer clients include AFC Gamma, Inc., Air Lease Corporation, American Honda Finance Corporation, Care Trust REIT, Inc., Geneva Enterprises Inc., Liberty Broadband, Liberty Media, Microsemi Corporation, Qurate Retail, QVC, Sunrise Realty Trust, Inc., Synaptics Incorporated, and Verso Corporation. Jeeho also serves as designated underwriters’ counsel for Toyota Motor Credit Corporation.

Jeeho serves on O’Melveny’s Partner Admissions Committee, and formerly served as the firm’s Firmwide Hiring Partner, responsible for managing recruiting efforts across O’Melveny’s 17 offices.

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  • Representing issuers in a number of equity and debt offerings, including offerings in the retail, airline, broadcasting, financial services, technology, semiconductor, entertainment, biopharmaceutical, real estate development, and water industries.
  • Representing underwriters in a number of equity and debt offerings, including offerings in the entertainment, biopharmaceutical, cable, financial services, and real estate development industries.
  • Representing companies in venture capital and other private placements, including offerings for technology, aircraft leasing, and biopharmaceutical companies.

Admissions

Bar Admissions

  • New York
  • California

Education

  • University of California, Berkeley, J.D.: Prosser Prize in Asian Americans and the Law
  • Barnard College, B.A., Political Science: magna cum laude; Elizabeth Hughes Gosset Scholar; Recipient, Marion Churchill White Prize

Honors & Awards

  • Recommended by The Legal 500 US for Capital Markets: Debt Offerings (2024, 2026) and Capital Markets: Equity Offerings (2024-2026)
  • Recognized in Lawdragon’s 500 Global Leaders in Crisis Management Guide (2025)
  • Recognized in The American Lawyer’s second annual list of “Northeast Trailblazers” (2022)
  • Recognized in Business Insider’s list of the “nine go-to lawyers” advising companies in the electric vehicle industry (omm.com) (2021)
  • Named a “Rising Star” in Capital Markets by Law360 (2021)
  • Recognized as a “Rising Star” in IFLR1000 rankings (2014-2021)

Professional Activities

Co-Author

Member

  • Law360 Capital Markets Editorial Advisory Board

Speaker

  • Panelist, “Legal Advisor Insights: M&A Market Outlook,” American Bar Association (April 12, 2021)
  • Panelist, “Do I have the Right Legal Partner to Help Scale My Business?” COI Ladder Institute’s Unleashing the Power of Partnerships 2020 (August 10, 2020)
  • Panelist, “What Female Founders Want You to Know About Getting the Financial Support You Need,” The Riveter, founded by UBS (May 14, 2020)
  • Panelist, “What’s New in Accounting,” CFA Society New York (February 27, 2020)
  • Panelist, “Proxy Guideline and Voting Trend,” CFA Society New York (March 6, 2019)
  • Teacher, Project Entrepreneur 2020 NYC, presented by UBS in partnership with The Female Founder Collective
Related Practices
Capital Markets
Corporate & Transactions
Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainability
Emerging Companies
Public Company Advisory
Securities Regulation
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