About

Alethea Lee is a senior corporate transactional and commercial legal adviser, with extensive governance and company secretarial experience having developed an extraordinary amount of experience during her career to date. She serves as senior legal counsel and assistant company secretary at Nine Entertainment following its merger with Fairfax Media. Her skills and experience in strategic M&A and restructures led to her playing the key legal and company secretarial role in managing the merger and, prior to that, the demerger and subsequent public listing of Fairfax’s highly successful business, Domain.com.au. Lee is well-versed in guiding businesses through disrupted industries and has been actively involved in the execution of digital transformation strategies. She has advised on and managed joint venture partnerships across various industries, most recently playing an active role with the management of Fairfax’s Digital Ventures portfolio. She demonstrates her rising star qualities by having had in-depth experience working with iconic brands belonging to ASX100-listed entities, and is acutely aware of the complexities surrounding brand reputation. She has developed skills to become adept at working closely with boards, and investor-and public-relations advisors. Furthermore, she has specialist skills in corporate governance, competition law, advertising and consumer law, data protection regulation, and contract law. Lee is known as a skilled negotiator and proficient influencer who is highly commercial and collaborative. She is respected as a strategic legal advisor to senior management, executives and board members, and is poised to become one of Australia’s top general counsels in the future.