Z. Julie Lee is a partner and business lawyer in the Milwaukee office of Foley & Lardner LLP. Ms. Lee has extensive experience representing clients with their cross-border transactions, with an emphasis on China. She counsels clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and commercial transactions such as supply agreements, licensing arrangements, distributorship agreements, cross-border technology transfer and practical ways to protect intellectual property transferred to a foreign country. Additionally, Ms. Lee provides tax and business law advice relating to the formation, operation, termination and reorganization of corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships in the U.S. She represents taxpayers in administrative and judicial disputes with the Internal Revenue Service and the Wisconsin Department of Revenue on income tax, sales/use tax and property tax matters. She has also done a significant amount of international tax work, including assisting U.S. clients to structure acquisitions and reorganizations outside the U.S., structuring foreign clients’ investments in, and acquisitions/dispositions of, U.S. businesses and real estate, and advising foreign clients on U.S. estate tax matters. She is a member of the International, Taxation, and Transaction & Securities Practices and the Automotive, Energy and Sports Industry Teams.

Ms. Lee received her undergraduate degree from Beijing University in 1991. She joined Foley & Lardner after receiving her J.D. degree, cum laude, from Northwestern University School of Law in 1998. During law school, Ms. Lee served as co-president of the Northwestern International Law Society, co-founded the Northwestern Small Business Legal Clinic, and was an articles editor of the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business.