Helping businesses and ventures with compelling technologies reach their growth objectives with sound legal strategies and solutions.

Louis brings his unique experience to bear in advising the innovation, R&D, corporate development and corporate venturing functions of large corporations by combining his skills advising venture groups in venture investments, corporate development teams in acquiring businesses, commercial groups in partnering and commercializing products and technology transactions—to help structure and execute smart deals to enable innovation from the outside to the inside.

Services include:

• Negotiating initial non-disclosure agreements
• Drafting term sheets for investment
• Drafting side letters for specific corporate venturing group rights
• Drafting cooperation, R&D and commercialization agreements

Representative Clients:

• AIG
• Atomico
• Robert Bosch Venture Capital
• CBRE Group
• Daimler
• GE Ventures
• Group PSA
• Hanwha
• Lenovo
• LG Technology Ventures
• MS&AD Ventures
• Next47
• OSRAM
• Salesforce Ventures
• Samsung Venture Investment Corp
• Samsung Catalyst Fund
• Samsung NEXT
• SK Gas

Recent Representations:

• Counseled LG Technology Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of LG Group, in its venture investment in Claroty, an Israeli industrial cybersecurity company (2021)
• Represented LG Technology Ventures in its venture investment in Airalo (2021)
• Guided Samsung Venture Investment Co. in its Series A investment in Soundable Health (2021)
• Counseled Samsung Venture Investment Co. in its Series A financing of NEX Labs (2021)