Lee Silver

Lee Silver is a partner in the Corporate & Finance group. He is recognized by Best Lawyers in America in the 2024-2025 “Ones to Watch” editions for Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law.

Lee represents founders, business owners, executives, and investors in connection with a range of corporate transactional matters. Lee regularly advises clients on business formation, corporate governance, and early stage financing transactions, with a particular focus on emerging growth companies in the media and technology industries. Lee’s practice also involves counseling parties in various industries in connection with mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, employment arrangements, and other general corporate matters. Lee also works closely with the Firm’s Entertainment group in counseling brands and talent regarding compensation and incentive arrangements.

Some of Lee’s recent transactional representations include:

• a leading interactive livestreaming technology and services company in its Series Seed, A, B and C investment rounds;
• a creative production company specializing in children’s entertainment in its joint venture with a global leader in live entertainment;
• a media investment fund’s formation and subsequent acquisitions of certain entertainment properties and other artist driven projects;
• a sports betting data services company in multiple financing rounds and the sale of the company;
• a top model in connection with compensation for endorsement services;
• an ed-tech public benefit corporation in multiple Series Seed investment rounds;
• a leading digital advertising agency in the sale of the company;
• an investment recovery adviser in its Series Seed and A investment rounds; and
• an independent game studio founded by industry veterans in its Series Seed investment round.

Lee provides pro-bono counsel to clients of the Safe Passage Project, a non-profit immigration legal services organization that provides free lawyers to refugee and immigrant children in the New York City-area who face deportation back to life-threatening situations. Lee also serves as a Mentor to the Columbia University Almaworks Accelerator and the CUNY CSI Tech Incubator programs.

Prior to joining Frankfurt Kurnit, Lee began his legal career as an associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions group at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.

Lee is admitted to practice in New York.