Wendy Lee is a Shareholder in the Firm’s Seattle office, a member of the Commercial Finance practice group and Chair of the Fintech and AI Practice Group.

Awards and Honors

  • Exceptional Women Alliance Awardee (2023)
  • Representative for Fintech awarded USFN Associate Member of the Year Award (2022)
  • USFN Member of the Year, the “Eddy” Award 2021
  • DSnews Top 25 Women of Law (2021)

Professional Involvement

  • Member, Mortgage Banker’s Association Data Protection Working Group
  • Past Board Member, USFN, Past Secretary, Vice President of Board of USFN, 2015-2022
  • Past Member, National Association of Professional Mortgage Women, 2004 -2005
  • Closed $250M acquisition of technology platform
  • Negotiated major Fintech/Financial Institution AI partnership and executed go to market strategy
  • Managed multi-million dollar defense of third party witness in largest mortgage tech FTC anti-trust matter
  • Negotiate and closed mortgage SaaS MSAs valued at over $750m in TCV
  • Chartered AI Ethics Committee risk management framework for Fintech in Mortgage SaaS niche
  • Advisor on compliance strategy for adaptation to FTC Safeguard Rules
  • Selected and implemented AI Solution for commercial contract lifecycle management
  • Launched, modified and elevated Third Party Risk Management program for hyper growth Fintech tackling assignment and negotiation of over 100 transition services related technology contracts
  • Remediated Data Protection Agreement program for SaaS provider
  • Advisor on early stage Fintech startups on topics including M&A, product/market fit, funding, international scaling, and regulatory compliance in consumer financial and AI related governance
  • Legal advisor on value creation initiatives related to fintech product offerings

Ms. Lee earned her J.D., magna cum laude from the Seattle University School of Law, where she served as a Research and Technical Editor for the Seattle University Law Review. She earned her B.A. in Political Science, magna cum laude from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

  • United States District Court for the State of Washington
  • United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Washington
  • United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington
  • United States District Court for the State of Oregon
  • United States Bankruptcy Court for Oregon

Additional Specialties

Regulatory Compliance
Commercial Transactions
Product Development
Data Governance and Protection
Real Estate
Insolvency