Partner at Foley & Lardner LLP
Helping businesses and ventures with compelling technologies reach their growth objectives with sound legal strategies and solutions.
Louis Lehot is a partner and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP, based in the firm’s Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Los Angeles offices, where he is a member of the Private Equity & Venture Capital, M&A and Transactions Practices and the Technology, Health Care, and Energy Industry Teams. Louis focuses his practice on advising entrepreneurs and their management teams, investors and financial advisors at all stages of growth, from garage to global. Louis especially enjoys being able to help his clients achieve hyper-growth, go public and to successfully obtain optimal liquidity events.
To assist his clients in realizing their objectives, Louis brings to bear a broad array of legal and business instruments, processes and strategies, from formation to liquidity. He guides emerging private companies as they secure venture capital financing, prepare for IPO or de-SPAC, and navigate the exit. His domain experience in public offerings and private placements of equity, equity-linked, and debt securities, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, spinoffs, strategic investments, and joint ventures, as well as corporate governance and securities law compliance matters, serves his clients well. Additionally, Louis regularly represents US and non-US registrants before the SEC, FINRA, NYSE and NASDAQ.
Articles Published:
Startup Filing Essentials: Federal, State, and Corporate Filings- Louis Lehot
“Looking for A Lawyer? Choose wisely, your business is at stake,” says Louis Lehot
4 Tips For Becoming a Successful Attorney In Silicon Valley
Running an Effective Board of Directors
Building the Perfect Pitch Deck
8 Questions to ask before raising your first round of venture capital — Louis Lehot
Early-Stage Investment Rounds to Fund Your Startup
Corporate & Securities Filings For a Startup
Electronic Signatures Simplified
SBA Provides NEW Updates on the PPP: Good Faith Certification and Amnesty
What every emerging growth company needs to know about the CARES Act
Clearing and Protecting the use of Brand Names, Logos, and Domain Names before Creating Value in Them