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

Louis provides buy- and sell-side representation in mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, spinoffs, strategic investments and joint ventures. He focuses on M&A transactions for strategic and financial buyers, excelling in cross-border transactions where structure and execution require high-touch service and tactical solutions that make sense. He has served as company- and investor-side counsel in angel, seed and venture capital financings and M&A transactions.

Louis additionally counsels on public offerings, including SPACs and direct listings, as well as private placements of equity, equity-linked and debt securities. He advises on corporate governance and securities law compliance matters. He has frequently represented U.S. and non-U.S. registrants before the SEC, FINRA, NYSE and NASDAQ.

Buy-Side M&A:

• Buy-side representation since 2000
• M&A representation of public and private global multinationals and emerging companies in more than 200 deals
• Transaction values have ranged from multi-millions to multi-billions
• Aggregate deal total of >USD 80 billion
• Deep industry focus – technology, healthcare, clean energy, and real estate

Comprehensive M&A Services:

• Cross-border transactions
• Spin-offs and divestitures
• Restructurings
• Private equity transactions
• Joint ventures
• Buyout transactions
• Tender offers, exchange offers and proxy solicitations
• Recapitalizations and financing
• Control, non-control and minority investments
• Distressed acquisitions transactions
• Takeover defenses and initiatives
• Bolt-on acquisitions

Representative Clients:

• 174 Power Global, the power project development arm of Hanwha Energy Corp., in negotiating a joint venture with Total SE to develop utility-scale solar and energy storage projects of 1.6 GW cumulative capacity in North America
• Affiliates of the Samsung Group
• AOL (now part of Oath) in multiple acquisitions or AOL LLC (now known as OATH), in the acquisitions of Sphere Source, Inc. and Goowy Media Inc.
• Avnet (NASDAQ: AVT) in acquisitions of Dragon Innovation and Solaris and in numerous strategic investments in technology businesses
• Binatone Global in multiple acquisitions or Binatone Global in its acquisition of the companion products business of Motorola Mobility 
• Brioche Pasquier, S.A. in acquiring Galaxy Desserts in California
• CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE: CBG) in dozens of acquisitions over the past decade for regional real estate brokerages, property management businesses, technology platforms and adjacent services, including Floored.com, Forum Analytics, Brenner Real Estate Group, Capstone Financial, Skye Group, CAC Group, Fameco, KLMK Group, U.S. Equities, UCR and many more
• CHC Helicopter and CHC Group Ltd. (formerly NYSE: HELI)
• CSR plc (sold to Qualcomm)
• Dasan Zhone Solutions (NASDAQ: DZSI) in the acquisition of Keystone
• Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) in acquisitions of Cyphort, Aurrion (now OpenLight Photonics, Inc.) and Appformix as well as in other strategic transactions
• Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) in numerous strategic and financial transactions
• STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) in numerous strategic and financial transactions
• Penn National Gaming (NYSE: PENN) in the acquisition of Rocket Games
• CheckALT LLC in the acquisitions of ERAS from Diebold (NYSE: DBD) and Klike Technologies from MUFG Union Bank
• CVC and QA Analytics in its buyout of Cloud Academy
• Symphony Technology Group and Bond International Software in the acquisition of Erecruit
• Tecan Group AG (SIX:  TECN) in its acquisition of SpeWare Corp.
• Sanpower Group Co., Ltd., one of the largest privately owned conglomerates in China, on its entry into a definitive agreement to acquire Dendreon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for US$819.9 million
• Flurosat, a crop science company, in its all-stock acquisition of soil health startup Dagan to form Regrow Agriculture focusing on resilient agriculture solutions

Sell-Side M&A:

Louis provides sell-side representation in mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, spinoffs, strategic investments and joint ventures. He focuses on M&A transactions for strategic and financial buyers, excelling in cross-border transactions where structure and execution require high touch service and tactical solutions that make sense. He has served as company- and investor-side counsel in angel, seed and venture capital financings and M&A transactions.

Louis additionally counsels on public offerings, including SPACs and direct listings, as well as private placements of equity, equity-linked and debt securities. He advises on corporate governance and securities law compliance matters. He has frequently represented U.S. and non-U.S. registrants before the SEC, FINRA, NYSE and NASDAQ.

• Sell-side representation since 2000
• M&A representation of public and private global multinationals and emerging companies in more than 200 deals
• Transaction values have ranged from multi-millions to multi-billions
• Aggregate deal total of >USD 80 billion
• Deep industry focus – technology, healthcare, clean energy, energy services and real estate

Comprehensive M&A Services:

• Cross-border transactions
• Spin-offs and divestitures
• Restructurings
• Private sales
• Joint ventures
• Buyout transactions
• Tender offers, exchange offers and proxy solicitations
• Recapitalizations and financing
• Auction sales
• Distressed transactions
• Takeover defenses and initiatives
• Take private transactions

Representative Clients:

• Zonehaven, the SAAS solution for emergency evacuation and community support, in its sale to Genasys (NASDAQ: GNSS), the critical communications systems and solutions company
• doc.ai Incorporated, the digital health transformation company, in negotiating strategic investment, commercial and licensing deals with Anthem, and in its subsequent 2021 sale to Sharecare and pending combination with Falcon Capital Acquisition Corp
• Semarchy, the Intelligent Data HubTM company and a disruptive provider of master data management software, in a significant investment from funds advised by Providence Strategic Growth (“PSG”), the growth equity affiliate of Providence Equity Partners
• Semarchy SAS and Semarchy, Inc. in their 2021 sale to Provident Strategic Growth, the growth equity arm of Providence Equity Partners Riverwood Capital in its buyout of Forecast5 Analytics and numerous other attempted buyout deals
• SoftBank Group International in the sale of 99 Taxis, the largest ride-sharing company in Brazil, to Didi
• Centric Software, a global enterprise SAAS PLM company (backed by venture capital firms Oak Investment Partners and Fung Capital) based in Silicon Valley in the sale of a majority stake to Dassault Systemes SE, a French public company listed on Euronext Paris, in a cash and stock deal
• The League App, Inc. in its sale to Match Group, Inc. (NYSE:  MTCH)
• Docea Power SAS in its sale to Intel (NYSE:  INTC)
• Kerensen Consulting (sold to salesforce.com, NASDAQ: SFDC)
• Stackstorm (sold to Brocade, now part of Broadcom)
• 99 Taxis (sold to Didi Global, NYSE: DIDI)
• AdoTube (sold to Exponential Interactive)
• CSR plc (sold to Qualcomm)
• Tuplejump in its sale to a Cupertino based company
• DoubleBeam (sold to Verifon, then public, now owned by Vista)
• Metric Test (sold to Microlease, a Lloyds portfolio company (now part of ElectroRent)
• Tongjitang Chinese Medicine (sold to affiliates of CITIC in China’s going private deal of the year in 2012) or The special committee of the board of directors of Tongjitang Chinese Medicines, an NYSE-listed public company, in negotiating an agreement and plan of merger with a bidder group led by its chairman and Fosun Industrial in a going-private transaction (recognized by China Business Law Journal as 2012’s Going Private Deal of the Year)