Steve Lee Email & Phone Number

United States

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Seoul, Korea

Draft, review, and negotiate contracts, licenses, including distributorship agreements, cross border e-commerce agreements, promotion, sponsorship and influencer agreements, consultant and service provider agreements, SaaS, and technology agreements, etc.Provide legal advice to business, support functions and risk partners in connection with company’s investments and mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) (over US$139M in transactions).Provide litigation support, including managing outside counsels, and ensure matters are handled proficiently, efficiently and cost‐effectively.Oversee company implementation of measures in relation to website compliance for Personal Data/Privacy, California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), Americans with Disabilities Act remediation, etc.

Jung-Gu, Seoul, Korea

Responsible for the company’s global IP anti-counterfeiting and brand protection.Develop and enforce offline and online enforcement programs in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore.Strategize, communicate and negotiate all global intellectual property (“IP”) settlements and dispute matters, including assignments, co-existence, licenses, cancellations, invalidations, etc.Oversee company’s global trademark portfolio (over 35 brands) and provide risk analysis, filing strategy and legal advice on IP protection and infringement issues across branding, packaging, and marketing worldwide.Manage outside counsels with respect to trademark prosecution, trademark and patent litigations, oppositions, domain name disputes, and international IP portfolio matters, including developing case strategies and providing litigation support.Draft, review and negotiate contracts, design services agreements, license agreements and other IP-related agreements involving many multi-national companies.Coordinate with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, Singapore, France, the United Arab Emirates and the United States to address the company’s supply-chain/distribution issues in the respective regions.Administer all domain name disputes, including negotiations and administrative actions, such as UDRP.

Seoul, South Korea

Counseled and administered trademark portfolio for over 50 clients.Performed legal research and writing, conduct legal analyses, and draft legal opinion on administrative disputes.Managed multiple anti-counterfeiting enforcement programs for multi-national clients in diverse fields, including luxury and fashion, general retailing, technology and software, among others.Drafted complex intellectual property licensing and assignment agreements.Served as the regional outside counsel covering the Asia Pacific region for a multi-national client.

Seoul, South Korea

Assisted attorneys engaged in ongoing legal matters, client communication,and portfolio management.Researched and drafted client letters and memoranda for use in drafting briefsin civil lawsuits.Advised clients on Korean trademark laws and developed litigation strategiesfor trademark actions.Managed client portfolios, including administrative and accounting matters.

Assisted legislative and provincial leaders from the region with several working groups including health care, energy and tourism.

Worked with various NGOs, multinational corporations and local governments to organize professional appointments and create full itineraries for international visitors, bringing high-level professionals from all over the world to Seattle to meet with their professional counterparts.

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Activities and Societies: Board member of International Law Society, APALSA, MLSA, Law in Intellectual Property Group

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Activities and Societies: Korean Student Union