Lee read law at
Clare College, Cambridge and joined Addleshaw Sons & Latham, specialising in corporate finance. He became a managing partner at the firm in 1991, then senior partner in the post-merger
Addleshaw Booth & Co in 1997, and finally a senior partner in
Addleshaw Goddard in 2001, until he retired in May 2010. Lee is a board member of the
Confederation of British Industry, and was the Chairman of CBI North West. He has also served as Trustee and later Chairman of the
Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester (1991–2016), as the Chairman of the
Feoffees of
Chetham's School of Music, and on the boards of the
Hallé Concerts Society,
Opera North, the
Northern Ballet, the
University of Manchester, and other cultural institutions. Lee was appointed as Chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board by the
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport starting from 1 October 2009, succeeding
Robert Valentine Hughes. He was appointed an
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the
2020 Birthday Honours. == References ==