Sammy Tak Lee

Samuel "Sammy" Tak Lee or Samuel "Sammy" Lee Tak-Yee (born April 1939) is a London-based Hong Kong billionaire property developer.

Early life

Samuel Tak Lee was born in April 1939.[1]

Career

One of his most prominent acquisitions was his purchase of London's historic Langham Estate for $75 million in 1994. He then developed The Knightsbridge Apartments in Knightsbridge, London.[2]

According to Forbes, he had a net worth of $2.8 billion in April 2015, and was ranked 19th on Forbes' list of Hong Kong's wealthiest people.[3]

Philanthropy

In 2007, he donated $9 million to Hong Kong's Diocesan Boys' School, of which he was a student between 1951 and 1958.[4]

In 2015, Lee donated $118 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to be used to establish a real estate entrepreneurship lab focused on China.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Langham Estate Management Limited". Companies House. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Ross Clark, They huff and they puff...but will they deliver? Ross Clark reports on an absurdly over-the top marketing ploy, The Daily Telegraph, 17 August 2002
  3. ↑ "Samuel Tak Lee". Forbes. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Real Estate Billionaire Donates $118 Million to MIT". Forbes. 10 January 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "Hong Kong tycoon Samuel Tak Lee donates US$118m to MIT for real estate studies". South China Morning Post. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2015.


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