Kevin Loechl Bio

Kevin has more than 30 years of experience advising U.S. and international clients on a wide range of transactional, corporate, intellectual property and employment matters. Kevin’s clients include startup, emerging-growth and mature companies, with a focus on privately held companies, along with charitable and religious organizations and individual entrepreneurs and executives. Kevin has advised for-profit and nonprofit clients on domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions and sales, joint ventures, and debt and equity financing transactions. Kevin also has extensive experience counseling investment advisory firms on matters ranging from regulatory compliance and data protection to risk management and corporate governance. Kevin is regularly called upon by clients to develop and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including joint venture, affiliation, licensing, distribution, services, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and AI agreements. Kevin regularly advises business owners on corporate and equity structure, compensation arrangements, and buy-sell agreements. In addition, Kevin advises employers and professionals with respect to employment, severance, restrictive covenants agreements, workforce restructuring and other employment matters. Kevin also represents authors and media and intellectual property owners in connection with publishing and licensing agreements. Kevin’s clients span a wide array of industries including financial services, technology, manufacturing, construction, managed services, publishing, durable medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, professional services and private equity funds, as well as schools, churches, public charities and private foundations. Kevin most enjoys serving in the role of outside general counsel to his clients. In that role, Kevin is able to develop a comprehensive understanding of his clients’ businesses and deep relationships with client leadership teams. This understanding allows him to add greater value by proactively identifying and addressing legal issues and advancing his clients’ goals and missions. While at the firm, Kevin was seconded to serve as general counsel to a major independent national financial advisory and wealth management firm with four divisions and thirteen offices nationwide and over $6.5 billion in assets under management. In that role, Kevin served on the company’s management and risk management committees, assumed responsibility for legal matters involving data protection, regulatory compliance, employment and litigation, oversaw contracting and corporate transactions including a spinoff of the firm’s national accounting practice, led a complete rewriting of the firm’s client agreements and positioned the company’s legal matters for the eventual sale of the company. Kevin began his law practice at the Chicago headquarters of Baker & McKenzie, LLP, one of the five largest law firms with offices across the U.S. and in more than 40 countries. While at Baker & McKenzie, Kevin focused on international banking and finance law and served as counsel to financial institutions including banks, global custodians and securities exchanges in connection with exchange-traded derivative financial instruments, global regulatory compliance programs, securities lending, and corporate transactions. He also advised clients with respect to syndicated lending, cross-border credit facilities, structured financing and other complex debt financing. Kevin subsequently moved to Atlanta to join the firm and assume leadership of the firm’s corporate and securities practice and became a partner in 2003. Kevin assumed the role of managing partner of the firm in 2020. Kevin was the recipient of the DeKruyger-Monsman Prize in Political Science, an endowed prize for distinguished academic work in the political science field, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Kevin was a National Merit Scholar during his full tenure at Calvin. He was elected as a Senator to the Student Senate in his first and second years of college, as Vice President of the Student Senate in his third year and as President of the Student Senate in his fourth year. He also served on various student-faculty committees while serving as President of the Student Senate. Kevin attended law school at the University of Chicago where he served as President of the Christian Law Students Association. Kevin was named a 2005 Georgia Rising Star Attorney by Super Lawyers and Atlanta Magazine. In his spare time, Kevin enjoys hiking, traveling, reading and gardening.