Bio

Lesley Attkisson Lewis has extensive experience advising private and public companies, private equity groups, and family-owned businesses in a broad range of corporate legal matters, from structuring and negotiating complex merger and acquisition transactions to advising founders and management teams in connection with their day-to-day business legal needs. Lesley’s practice includes a broad range of corporate transactional matters, with a focus on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carve-out transactions, and private equity investments. She also routinely advises clients in general corporate matters, such as the formation, structuring, and governance of privately held business entities, and the drafting and negotiating of commercial contracts. Lesley enjoys working with founders and management teams on all of their day-to-day legal issues, regardless of industry, and is frequently described as an “outside general counsel” to several of her clients. Lesley’s clients include businesses in a variety of industries, such as manufacturing, software, packaging, transportation and logistics, life sciences, and energy. Those clients appreciate her practical approach to resolving the unforeseen issues that invariably arise in corporate transactions to ensure that deals get done in a timely and efficient manner.