About Lee
Lee is Burr & Forman’s managing partner. Lee is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the General Corporate Law category. Lee is also listed in Chambers USA America’s Leading Business Lawyers. Lee and colleagues Louis Anders and Warren Matthews co-authored “Alabama Limited Liability Company Forms and Practice Manual”. Lee is a Fellow of the Alabama Law Foundation, which recognizes significant contributions to the legal profession and the community. In 1994, he served as Secretary Treasurer of the Birmingham Bar and as President in 2005. After law school, Lee served as law clerk to the Honorable Richard L. Jones, Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.
He served as Alabama counsel during the site selection and negotiation processes for Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, Inc., The Boeing Company, Mi-Tech Steel, Inc. and IPSCO Steel when these companies chose to locate their facilities in the State of Alabama. He assisted Honda Manufacturing of Alabama with the implementation of its incentives package with the State of Alabama for the development of its plant in Lincoln, Alabama. Lee also negotiated the incentives packages with the State for the recent Mercedes-Benz and Honda plant expansions in Alabama. Additionally, he assisted with negotiations on behalf of both Daimler-Chrysler AG and Michigan Automotive Compressor Inc. (an affiliate of Toyoda Industries) during their site selection and incentives negotiation processes with the State of Georgia. Lee also assisted Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama, LLC with the implementation of its incentive package with the State of Alabama for the development of its plant in Montgomery, Alabama. Lee oversaw the site selection process for a new transmission manufacturing facility being developed by Honda Motor Company in Tallapoosa, Georgia. In 2006, Lee and his partner, Warren Matthews, oversaw the site selection process for Kia Motors Corporation for a new automobile manufacturing facility to be located in West Point, Georgia. Most recently, Lee and Warren Matthews represented both ThyssenKrupp AG and National Steel Car, Ltd in their site selection and negotiation processes to locate manufacturing facilities in Mobile and Muscle Shoals, Alabama. To date, Lee has worked on new economic development projects and expansions representing over $12 billion of captial investment and the creation of over thousands of new jobs.
Lee currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Alabama Automobile Manufacturers Association, the Alabama Wildlife Federation and the Comprehensive Cancer Care Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Lee is the former Board of Directors’ President of Girls Incorporated of Central Alabama and previously served as a member of its National Board of Directors.
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