William K. Lee

William Lee is an associate with the Banking & Finance team representing issuers, underwriters, lenders, mortgage servicers, investment banks, investors, funds and rating agencies. His practice involves asset sales, warehouse lending and securitization transactions with a focus on financing single family rental properties, mortgage loans and mortgage servicing rights.

• Represented iBuyers, start-ups, funds and alternative asset managers as borrowers and investment bank as lender on their respective SFR warehouse financings ranging from $50 million - $1 billion, many of which involve mortgages on Day 1.
• Represented 10+ investment bank lenders on their respective warehouse facilities involving EBO, fix-and-flip, nonperforming, re-performing, Agency, and non-QM residential mortgage loan collateral ranging from $50 million - $1+ billion.
• Represented a private investment banking company and multiple mortgage loan originators on their respective non-QM securitizations as sponsor and issuer’s counsel totaling $2+ billion.
• Represented a specialty financing company and real estate investment and development firm on their respective SFR and fix-and-flip securitizations.

• New York University School of Law, JD
• Cornell University, BA

• New York
• California

• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (“NAPABA”)
• Asian American Bar Association of New York (“AABANY”)
  
  
  • Student Outreach Committee, Advisor (current), Co-Chair (former), Vice-Chair (former)
  • Student Leaders Program, Founder and Director
  • APALSA Roadshow Program, Speaker
  • Legal Referral Information Service, Committee Member (former)
  • Pro Bono and Community Service, Committee Leader
    
    
• Represented NAPABA and AABANY at the 2021 Collaborative Bar Leadership Academy
• Columbia Law School APALSA 2021 Annual Conference: “Writing Your Own Script”, Distinguished Panelist
• Korean American Lawyers Association of Greater New York, Member