Robin J. Lee is a partner in the Technology Transactions practice group and a member of the Cooley Business department. He joined the Firm in 1999 and is resident in the Palo Alto office.

Mr. Lee specializes in transactions in which critical technology is being shared and fine-grained control over the technology's use is vital. On the deal side, he handles license agreements, joint development agreements, and similar arrangements involving "crown jewel" intellectual property. On the analytic side, he conducts "deep look" IP/commercial due diligence in connection with major business lifecycle events. On the remedial side, Mr. Lee produces practical options for herding unstructured problems into a form that can be managed.

On a knowledge specialty level, Mr. Lee maintains substantive expertise in several areas. He provides counsel regarding the use of free/open-source software (FOSS), and has advised on FOSS compliance assessment, copyleft contamination risks, FOSS business models, internal policies, and remediation. He also is a subject matter expert in "legal productization," which involves structuring the full range of legal relationships (supply-chain, customer/end-user, channels, etc.) necessary to roll out new product offerings. As a negotiator with a commercial background, he develops, implements, and trains others on "design-for-negotiation" techniques.

Finally, Mr. Lee has had lengthy involvement with the cyber problem. He has worked on information-sharing issues for over a decade with the SF/Silicon Valley element of the FBI's InfraGard public-private partnership, where he serves on the board of directors. He has worn the "private sector hat" at various activities of the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center over a number of years. As a professional worrier and "risk scout" for decision-making principals, Mr. Lee is interested in bridging the present gap between the technical security community and the executive actors who manage resources and risks. To that end, he is a thought leader on the topics of cybersecurity risk vocabulary, adequate warning intelligence for the private sector, and a practical concept of "actionability" for threat analysis.

Mr. Lee is a frequent speaker on all of these subjects for both public and private audiences, and currently serves as a Lecturer-in-Law at Stanford Law School.