ABOUT LANSING LEE

During his tenure at Squire Patton Boggs over three decades, Lansing Lee concentrated his practice in a full spectrum of international business, sovereign representation and public policy matters.

Lansing was born in Augusta, Georgia in 1948. He graduated in 1965 from the Academy of Richmond County in Augusta (established 1783) and was later inducted into the Academy's Hall of Fame.  His undergraduate and professional education was completed when he  graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1969 and earned his Juris Doctor degree from the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta in 1974. 

He began his career in public policy and later law, working in Georgia for then-Governor Jimmy Carter following his election in 1970, ultimately becoming Administrative Assistant to Governor Carter and later Executive Director of the Democratic Party of Georgia in the 1980s. 

Also, during the 1970s and 1980s, Lansing was a lawyer in Georgia and the South, serving as Law Assistant to Justices of the Georgia Supreme Court, and later as Assistant District Attorney in the Augusta Judicial Circuit. He entered private practice as a partner in his family’s law firm in Augusta; then served as Of Counsel to a medium-sized Atlanta law firm whose primary representation was Emory University; and ultimately moved his practice to Washington DC in the late 1980s. 

In the international arena, Lansing provided strategic counsel and relationship advisory work for the largest infrastructure multinational in the world, including for both the delivery of Program Management and Delivery Partner services to sovereign nations, at the Presidential/Prime Minister level, and their management of financing, construction and delivery of airports, ports, pipelines, roads, railroads, power and water.

Lansing served as counsel to the largest private school system in India, with more than 200,000 students, as it was expanding in India and globally. Further in Asia, Lansing represented the Government of Vietnam in the US at the Prime Minister/Ambassador level. 

In Russia and the former Soviet Union, Lansing also led a team of lawyers representing a New York international financier’s interest in a dispute involving a major Siberian oil field and its dealings with an international financial institution. Further in Russia, he represented an independent nationwide television network and two large investment banking firms, one Russian/American-owned and one British-owned. He also represented a large NGO in its operations in one of the former Soviet republics dealing with the Inspector General of a major US agency. 

Lansing served as Washington DC counsel for one of the East African Presidents. In this role, he identified business development opportunities and worked on formulating strategies to improve human rights relationships between the host country and multinational human rights organizations. Lansing further served as international business counsel for one of the West African Presidents, working on procuring business investments for that country. Lansing served as US counsel for one of the leading East African businesses in their dealings with international financial institutions. He also represented a pan-African business coalition in its advocacy for the original passage of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act. He has also worked on renewable energy projects in Northwest Africa. 

In the domestic arena, Lansing has counseled local governments in collaboration with the business community to affect federal legislation and regulations for their benefit, and he has represented multinational corporations in their dealings with state and local governments, including state governors and legislators, mayors, and local councils. Lansing has represented counties, cities, museums, chambers of commerce, and an international airport in the US which serves as a hub for one of the largest air carriers in the country. He has also represented one of the largest banks in the United States as well as one of the country's largest high-end retailers. 

Lansing was recently included in the legacy program of the prestigious Marquis Who’s Who in America, the world’s premier biographer since 1899, which includes profiles of the most accomplished individuals in all fields of endeavor.

Lansing's family has had a deep involvement with Washington National Cathedral, for multiple generations, and, beyond his professional life, he serves as a Lay Eucharistic Minister at the Cathedral. 

In every advisory representation that Lansing Lee has undertaken in his over 40 year career, he has endeavored to adhere to the highest standards of integrity and honesty.