Louis Lehot

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 liquidity event. Louis Lehot’s experience includes successful public offerings of equity and debt securities, equity and debt private placements securities, mergers & acquisitions, dispositions, spinoffs, strategic investments, and joint ventures. He is also a corporate governance and securities law compliance resources. Louis regularly represents the US and non-US registrants before the SEC, FINRA, NYSE, and NASDAQ. Leading peer-reviewed industry guide Chambers USA recognized Louis Lehot for offering the highest quality of advice with a passion and responsiveness to meet a diverse mandate of client needs.

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.

Prior to joining Foley, Lehot was the founder of a Silicon Valley boutique law firm called L2 Counsel. He previously served as both the co-managing partner and co-chair of the emerging growth and venture capital practice of a global law firm in Silicon Valley. With a legal career in New York, London, Paris, and Silicon Valley spanning more than 20 years, Louis has worked in technology, health care, clean energy, and other innovative industries, leveraging the latest legal technology tools to drive strategies and solutions that make sense.