Louis Lehot is a founding partner at L2 Counsel, P.C., an elite boutique law firm based in Palo Alto, in the heart of northern California’s Silicon Valley. Louis works with both private and public companies, with his experience extending across all stages of a company’s life cycle, from small teams in a garage to venture capital or private equity backed companies, all the way through IPO and beyond. Louis also has experience with entrepreneurs, founders, management teams and investors with building, financing, scaling, governing, buying, and selling companies. Louis has assisted companies across a wide range of industries, focusing on technology, life science, medical device and clean energy. His global legal career has supported him as an expert in cross border transactions. L2 Counsel is positioned to serve innovators of all kinds, whether they be from global public companies or entrepreneurs bootstrapping their first venture.
Building the Perfect Pitch Deck
By Louis Lehot of L2 Counsel, P.C. I’m often asked by clients, in the initial fundraising process how to build a pitch deck. As a recent outside general counsel to well over a hundred emerging growth private companies in the technology, life sciences, medical device, and clean energy industries, in all stages of growth (from formation to liquidity), I am sharing my observations on what works.
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Louis Lehot has formed L2Counsel, P.C., an elite boutique law firm in Palo Alto, California, to serve the innovators, disruptors, entrepreneurs and their investors. Whether your company is two people just getting off the ground, or a large publicly traded company, Louis’ team has the experience and expertise to serve your interests. L2 Counsel specializes in representing high growth, innovative companies, helping them at all stages of development. From assisting with financing from seed or venture capital investors, to preparing for a public financing on a major international joint venture, Louis takes pride in assisting companies as they grow. Helping a business get big, go public, or get acquired, is his specialty. Louis has worked across sectors, from artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, fintech, enterprise software, real estate, life sciences, to clean energy technologies and projects. His broad experience uniquely positions him to provide tailored advice to drive outcomes for his clients. Louis is widely known for his expertise in cross-border transactions, and has been a prominent leader in Asian investment in US based companies. L2Counsel is positioned to serve innovators across a wide range of sectors and Louis welcomes conversations to help ideas reach their growth objectives.
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Louis Lehot has formed L2Counsel, P.C., an elite boutique law firm in Palo Alto, California, to serve the innovators, disruptors, entrepreneurs and their investors. Whether your company is two people just getting off the ground, or a large publicly traded company, Louis’ team has the experience and expertise to serve your interests. L2 Counsel specializes in representing high growth, innovative companies, helping them at all stages of development. From assisting with financing from seed or venture capital investors, to preparing for a public financing on a major international joint venture, Louis takes pride in assisting companies as they grow. Helping a business get big, go public, or get acquired, is his specialty. Louis has worked across sectors, from artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, fintech, enterprise software, real estate, life sciences, to clean energy technologies and projects. His broad experience uniquely positions him to provide tailored advice to drive outcomes for his clients. Louis is widely known for his expertise in cross-border transactions, and has been a prominent leader in Asian investment in US based companies. L2Counsel is positioned to serve innovators across a wide range of sectors and Louis welcomes conversations to help ideas reach their growth objectives.
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BC Law Magazine, the alumni magazine of Boston College Law School, began publication in 1992 and chronicles the life of one of America’s leading professional academies. As the face of BC Law, the magazine endeavors to to depict who we are, what we believe in, and what distinguishes us as a law school.
Law Firm Partner- Louis Lehot
Today, my guest is Louis Lehot, Partner, Co-Chair, US Emerging Growth and Venture Capital and Co-Managing Partner of the Silicon Valley office of DLA Piper where his practices focuses on corporate, securities and M&A for public and emerging private companies and their venture capital and private equity investors from formation to liquidity.
Law Firm-Louis Lehot
Louis Lehot has formed L2Counsel, P.C., an elite boutique law firm in Palo Alto, California, to serve the innovators, disruptors, entrepreneurs and their investors. Whether your company is two people just getting off the ground, or a large publicly traded company, Louis’ team has the experience and expertise to serve your interests. L2 Counsel specializes in representing high growth, innovative companies, helping them at all stages of development. From assisting with financing from seed or venture capital investors, to preparing for a public financing on a major international joint venture, Louis takes pride in assisting companies as they grow. Helping a business get big, go public, or get acquired, is his specialty. Louis has worked across sectors, from artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, fintech, enterprise software, real estate, life sciences, to clean energy technologies and projects. His broad experience uniquely positions him to provide tailored advice to drive outcomes for his clients. Louis is widely known for his expertise in cross-border transactions, and has been a prominent leader in Asian investment in US based companies. L2Counsel is positioned to serve innovators across a wide range of sectors and Louis welcomes conversations to help ideas reach their growth objectives.
co-managing partner-Louis Lehot
DLA Piper recently named Louis Lehot co-managing partner of its Silicon Valley office. The firm has a prominent global network spanning more than forty countries, including those in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. Lehot is co-chair of the firm’s US Emerging Growth and Venture Capital practice and focuses primarily in the areas of corporate, securities and mergers and acquisitions law, advising public.
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Louis Lehot has formed L2Counsel, P.C., an elite boutique law firm in Palo Alto, California, to serve the innovators, disruptors, entrepreneurs and their investors. Whether your company is two people just getting off the ground, or a large publicly traded company, Louis’ team has the experience and expertise to serve your interests. L2 Counsel specializes in representing high growth, innovative companies, helping them at all stages of development. From assisting with financing from seed or venture capital investors, to preparing for a public financing on a major international joint venture, Louis takes pride in assisting companies as they grow. Helping a business get big, go public, or get acquired, is his specialty. Louis has worked across sectors, from artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, fintech, enterprise software, real estate, life sciences, to clean energy technologies and projects. His broad experience uniquely positions him to provide tailored advice to drive outcomes for his clients. Louis is widely known for his expertise in cross-border transactions, and has been a prominent leader in Asian investment in US based companies. L2Counsel is positioned to serve innovators across a wide range of sectors and Louis welcomes conversations to help ideas reach their growth objectives.
A Silicon Valley Dealmaker Sizes Up US-China Trade Tensions
One person tracking these developments closely is Louis Lehot, DLA Piper’s co-managing partner in Silicon Valley, who specializes his practice on cross-border transactions. Lehot has been spending much of his time facilitating U.S.-China deals, and he talked with Law.com’s California-based publication, The Recorder, about his recent trip to China and what he has learned about Chinese investors.
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