Bio

Layla Dotson Lumpkin is a partner in the firm’s Corporate Transactions & Securities practice group. She draws upon her diverse corporate legal experience to counsel clients on transactions throughout the business lifecycle. Layla focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions and emerging company and venture capital transactions. Layla counsels clients acquiring and selling companies, including private equity buyers and sellers, as well as strategic acquirers and operator sellers. She focuses on middle-market transactions, and her experience includes closing deals across industries. She has extensive experience advising emerging companies and venture capital funds. She counsels investors and growth companies through the venture capital financing process and advises fund managers on structuring and forming investment vehicles. She also serves as outside general counsel to early stage and emerging companies without in-house legal support, including advising them on structuring complex commercial arrangements. Her work with entrepreneurs began as a law student clinician at the Bluhm Legal Clinic Entrepreneurship Law Center. Layla remains committed to serving her community and increasing opportunities for underrepresented founders. She has mentored startups and often been invited to speak on early-stage company legal issues. Layla’s diverse deal experience also includes debt financing, such as representing lenders in commercial loan transactions. Her role as a business adviser is further enhanced by her experience acquired before law school in finance and accounting at a global consumer products company.