Overview

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.

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Experience

  • 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

  • Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. in connection with a preferred equity commitment 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

Education

  • New York University School of Law, LL.M, Tax, 2026
  • Stanford Law School, J.D., 2012
  • Yale University, B.A., Political Science, cum laude, 2009

Admissions

  • New York

Recognitions

  • Chambers USA, “Up and Coming” in Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (New York), 2025 and 2026
  • Legal 500 U.S., Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation & Retirement Plans: Transactional, 2023, 2024, and 2026
  • Selected to the New York Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2023
News & Achievements

Deals & Cases

Vinson & Elkins Advises Funds Managed by Affiliates of Apollo Global Management in Acquisition of Maverick Water Group

Vinson & Elkins advised funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. in the acquisition of Maverick Water Group, …

August 3, 2026

August 3, 2026 • 1-minute read

Deals & Cases

Vinson & Elkins Advises Blackbeard Holdings in $2.2 Billion Combination

Vinson & Elkins advised Blackbeard Holdings, LLC (“Blackbeard”), a portfolio company of NGP Energy Capital Management, in its entry into …

July 29, 2026

July 29, 2026 • 2-minute read

Deals & Cases

Vinson & Elkins Represents Tidewater in Sale to FTAI Infrastructure

Vinson & Elkins represented AP Shale Logistics ManagementCo LLC, doing business as Tidewater Logistics, a barge and rail transloading company with …

June 29, 2026

June 29, 2026 • 1-minute read

Awards & Rankings

The Legal 500 US 2026 (Legalease Ltd.) Recognizes Vinson & Elkins in 47 Practice Categories, 146 Lawyers Recommended

The Legal 500 US 2026 recommended Vinson & Elkins as a leading law firm in 47 practice categories. In total, …

June 10, 2026

June 10, 2026 • 3-minute read

Awards & Rankings

Chambers USA 2026 Recognizes Vinson & Elkins in 66 Practice Categories, 170 Individual Lawyer Rankings

Vinson & Elkins announced today that it achieved 20 Band 1 rankings in Chambers USA 2026: Nationwide: Energy Transition; Energy: …

June 4, 2026

June 4, 2026 • 3-minute read