Sammy Tak Lee – Billionaire

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.

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.

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.

Philanthropy

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

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.

Source:wikipedia