Jennifer Kristen Lee is a corporate and securities attorney at DLA Piper. She provides skillful legal counsel to private technology companies in areas that are critical to their short term and ongoing success. Jennifer's practice focuses on counseling companies from formation to exit, representing emerging companies and investors in venture capital financings, representing buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions and advising on corporate governance matters. Jennifer serves on DLA Piper's Emerging Growth and Venture Capital National Leadership Group, the Northern California Culture Committee and the Silicon Valley Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Asian Law Alliance, an organization which has helped tens of thousands of people in obtaining decent housing, justice in the immigration process and access to basic human and legal rights.Jennifer received her undergraduate degree in Political Science, from the University of California at Berkeley, her law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law, where she was a member of the Santa Clara Law Review, and her Master of Business Administration from Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business.Jennifer has been selected by her peers as a Northern California Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine from 2016 to 2018. To be selected for the Rising Stars list, attorneys must be under the age of 40 or in practice for less than 10 years. No more than 2.5 percent of the region's attorneys are selected.