Lee
Weinberg

Clients’ goals and needs are never “cookie-cutter”.

Lee Weinberg has helped a wide range of clients meet their personal, financial and business goals, including “Business Divorces”, first-time liquidity events, and domestic and international financings and transactions.

Clients know they can count on Lee for individually-tailored options, thoughtful and practical guidance, and creative solutions (as well as access to his broad network) as they navigate all manner of issues and situations.

 

Practice Areas:

• “Business Divorces” and Partner Disputes
• Sales and Purchases of Businesses (M&A)
• Joint Ventures and Partnerships
• Financings (Capital, Debt, and Bank)
• Liquidity Events, Cash-out Transactions
• Entity Selection, Structuring & Advisory
• Private Equity and Venture Capital
• Licensing and Endorsements
• IP, Software and Government Contracts
• C-Suite Employment & Board Agreements
• CEO and Board Counseling
• Outside General Counsel

Representative Industries:

• Brand-focused products and services
• Hospitality and Restaurant
• Fashion and Beauty
• Food and Beverage
• Cannabis & Cannabis Ecosystem
• Health and Wellness
• Entertainment and Sports
• Aerospace and Electronics
• Technology, Mobile and Communications
• Media, Marketing and Distribution (mobile, internet, and traditional)

Experience:

• Director (Board) of Umami Restaurant Group
• Director (Board) and Officer of YouMail
• Advisor, AEi Systems, space electronics analysis
• Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan LLP (later Dreier Stein Kahan Browne Woods George LLP)
• Co-founder and CEO, SalesMountain, mobile & internet infomediary
• SMG, artist management & music publishing firm
• Riordan & McKinzie
• Debevoise & Plimpton
• Sullivan & Cromwell

Speaking/Writing/Quoted:

• Published/Quoted by Bloomberg, Thompson/Reuters, Euromoney, Investor’s Business Daily, The Los Angeles Times, Yale University Press, Business Law News, The National Law Journal, and SoCal Tech
• Lecturer and Panelist on 1st-time Sellers/Liquidity Events, “Business Divorces, Marriages and Spin-offs,” Media and Technology, Music Publishing, Start-ups, Entity Selection, and Structuring, and Business and Investing, including for
• USC’s Marshall School of Business
• USC’s Annenberg School of Communications
• UCLA’s Anderson School of Business
• CFA Society of Los Angeles, and
• Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA)
• Featured guest on business radio broadcasts

Community Service:

• March of Dimes (Board); Yale Alumni Schools Committee

Outside Interests:

• Family, international travel, music, food