
Joo Hyun Lee

The Grace Building
1114 Avenue of the Americas
32nd Floor
New York, New York 10036

Joo Hyun Lee’s principal area of practice is Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits. Joo provides guidance on a wide range of compensation and employee benefits issues arising in mergers and acquisitions, sales, and equity offerings, among others. She also advises public and private companies on a range of compensatory and benefit arrangements.
Joo is recognized by Chambers USA 2025 where one client notes “Joo Hyun Lee is a very talented lawyer. She thinks holistically and weighs in on the big picture to fit things into a global framework.”
Experience Highlights
Baytex Energy Corp. (TSX:BTE) in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Ranger Oil Corporation, a pure play Eagle Ford company
E-3 Tech, LLC in its acquisition of BCPS FMS Holding, Inc. d/b/a Sylvan Inc., a leading-edge industrial services contractor serving Fortune 100 and government clients throughout North America
Enbridge (US) Inc. in its $1.2 billion acquisition of seven operating U.S. landfill gas-to-renewable natural gas facilities in Texas and Arkansas from Morrow Renewables
Total Operations and Production Services, a leading provider of contract gas compression services for the Permian Basin, in its acquisition by Archrock in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $983 million
Affiliates of Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. in its preferred equity commitment of $1+ billion to Origis USA, a portfolio company of Antin Infrastructure Partners
Flogistix Holdings, LLC, a White Deer Energy portfolio company, in its formation of Flowco, Inc. in combination with GEC Estis Holdings LLC and Flowco Production Solutions, L.L.C., each a portfolio company of Global Energy Capital
A BlackRock Diversified Infrastructure fund and a Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners fund in their $1.14 billion joint acquisition of the Portland Natural Gas Transmission System from TC Energy Corporation and its partner Northern New England Investment Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Énergir L.P.
Enbridge Inc. in a joint venture with WhiteWater/I Squared Capital and MPLX LP to develop, construct, own, and operate natural gas pipeline and storage assets connecting Permian Basin natural gas supply to growing LNG and U.S. Gulf Coast demand (pending)
EQT Corporation in the $1.8 billion acquisition of upstream and midstream oil and gas assets in Pennsylvania from Olympus Energy (pending)
Credentials
- Stanford Law School, J.D., 2012
- Yale University, B.A., Political Science, cum laude, 2009
- Chambers USA, “Up and Coming” in Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (New York), 2025
- Legal 500 U.S., Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation & Retirement Plans: Transactional, 2023 and 2024
- Selected to the New York Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2023
- New York
- Korean (fluent)
- Deals & CasesJune 11, 2025
- Rankings & AwardsJune 5, 2025
- Deals & CasesMay 7, 2025
- Deals & CasesApril 24, 2025
- Deals & CasesMarch 18, 2025
- Deals & CasesJanuary 15, 2025
- Deals & CasesDecember 4, 2024
- Deals & CasesSeptember 11, 2024
- Deals & CasesJune 21, 2024
- Rankings & AwardsJune 12, 2024
- Enbridge to Enter into JV Connecting Permian Basin Natural Gas Supply to Growing LNG and USGC DemandDeals & CasesMarch 27, 2024
- Rankings & AwardsSeptember 22, 2023
- Rankings & AwardsJune 12, 2023
- Deals & CasesMay 3, 2023
- Deals & CasesApril 19, 2023
- Deals & CasesMarch 2, 2023
- Deals & CasesFebruary 28, 2023