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Louis Lehot

  • Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
California
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I am a Silicon Valley M&A, venture capital and corporate lawyer, and I help tech, life science, healthcare and clean energy companies go from garage to global.

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Louis Lehot is a partner within the Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and Los Angeles offices of Foley & Lardner LLP. Louis specializes in advising his clients at all stages of company growth from garage to global. Louis Lehot offers business and legal advice for entrepreneurs, executive management teams, investors, financial sponsors and their advisors. He specializes in helping emerging private companies secure venture capital financing, prepare for an IPO or de-SPAC, and navigate an exit or liq…

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Winston Continues Investment in West Coast M&As With Addition of Corporate Chair | The Recorder

Winston Continues Investment in West Coast M&As With Addition of Corporate Chair | The Recorder

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Automation is poised to lead us out of the crisis, and empower people - here is how | Louis Lehot

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Leader of New Boutique Blends BigLaw & Silicon Valley Experience to Serve Clients of All Sizes

Leader of New Boutique Blends BigLaw & Silicon Valley Experience to Serve Clients of All Sizes

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Leader of New Boutique Blends BigLaw & Silicon Valley Experience to Serve Clients of All Sizes

Leader of New Boutique Blends BigLaw & Silicon Valley Experience to Serve Clients of All Sizes

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Leader of New Boutique Blends BigLaw & Silicon Valley Experience to Serve Clients of All Sizes

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It's Time To Get Going

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By Louis Lehot
| Mondaq
Louis Lehot’s articles from Foley & Lardner are most popular: with readers working within the Utilities industries Foley & Lardner are most popular: within Wealth Management and Coronavirus (COVID-19) topic(s) Notes from the Sidebar Summit at Nasdaq, where the IPO conversation finally stopped being theoretical Friends, I spent yesterday afternoon in New York at the Nasdaq MarketSite for the Sidebar Summit, and I moderated a panel on markets, AI, and capital formation.
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What Cross-Border M&A Teaches About the Limits of Legal AI

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By Louis Lehot
| Legaltech News
Credit: Sebastian/Adobe Stock For two years, the legal technology conversation has turned on a single premise, that artificial intelligence can read a contract. It can. In due diligence, where the review of hundreds or thousands of agreements once set the cost and the calendar, a well-pointed model now does in an afternoon what a team of associates needed two weeks to finish. The most labor-intensive phase of diligence has become, for practical purposes, nearly free.
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DExit One Year Later: An Assessment of SB21, the Continuing Pace of Reincorporation and the Maturation of Texas as a Corporate Domicile

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By Louis Lehot, Patrick Daugherty, Christopher Converse, Christopher Babcock
| Delaware Business Court Insider
(l-r) Louis Lehot, Patrick Daugherty, Christopher Converse, and Christopher Babcock of Foley & Lardner. Courtesy photos When I last addressed the so-called DExit phenomenon, Delaware’s General Assembly had just enacted Senate Bill 21 in response to the growing concern that public companies, prompted by a series of decisions from the Delaware Court of Chancery, most prominently Tornetta v. Musk, were reconsidering their historical preference for incorporation in Delaware.
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