Mrs Lori Lesser > Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Offices
425 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10017-3954
NEW YORK
United States
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Mrs Lori Lesser
Work Department
Litigation/Intellectual Property
Position
Intellectual Property and Litigation Partner. Heads the Firm’s IP Practice and Co-Chairs the Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice. Advises on all aspects of intellectual property, technology and privacy/cybersecurity law, including corporate transactions, licensing, counseling and litigation, in fields including media and entertainment, computer software and technology, financial information, apparel, consumer products, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, online, mobile and social media, and non-profits. Served as lead IP lawyer in hundreds of public and private transactions.
Career
Partner since 2003.
Education
A.B., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University (1988); J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School (1993).
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
(Leading lawyers)Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has a highly experienced New York-based team that is ‘very quick in understanding complex technological and legal issues‘. The practice provides critical support to the firm’s highly active corporate finance team, with good experience of M&A, financings, capital markets listings and restructurings. This is in addition to an active standalone offering that is regularly involved in significant IP, technology and privacy/cybersecurity transactions, including collaboration and licensing agreements. The IP transactions department is led by the highly regarded and versatile Lori Lesser who also co-chairs the firm’s privacy and cybersecurity practice. Other key individuals include counsel Genevieve Dorment and associate Alysha Sekhon, who is singled out for praise by clients.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers - United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Technology transactions - United States > Media, technology and telecoms
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Industry focus > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Industry focus > Insurance: advice to insurers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: electric power
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Industry focus > Insurance: non-contentious
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- International Trade > International trade
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Project finance