transferee vs recipient

transferee and recipient both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
transferee	Yes	No	No	No
recipient	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, recipient is a hypernym of transferee; that is, recipient is a word with a broader meaning than transferee:

Other hypernyms of transferee include receiver.

transferee (noun)	recipient (noun)
someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another	the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
(law) someone to whom a title or property is conveyed	a person who receives something