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Lisa Fontenot
Work Department
Corporate and Securities
Position
Lisa A. Fontenot has advised clients as to mergers and acquisitions, investments and other complex corporate transactions, and securities regulation and corporate governance matters for 30 years.
Lisa is ranked as a leading attorney in the Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law categories of The Best Lawyers in America© 2019-2024 and is repeatedly shortlisted for the ‘Media and Entertainment Lawyer of the Year’ Euromoney Women in Business Law Award. She is a Thomson Reuters ‘Stand Out Lawyer’ and has been named an expert in Capital Markets and M&A by Euromoney Women in Business Law Expert Guides, a Woman Leader in Tech Law by The Recorder – San Francisco, and a Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. She is a certified Corporate Governance Professional, accredited by the Society for Corporate Governance.
Career
Lisa advises U.S. and international companies, with a focus on the technology and media sectors, to successfully execute their strategic transactions, including public and private M&A, cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, joint ventures and investments. Lisa also advises issuers as to securities transactions, securities regulation and corporate governance or activism matters and represents investors in connection with their investments in, and equity dispositions of, portfolio companies.
Lisa is also a Steering Committee leader of the Interactive Entertainment Sector group.
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- California State Bar Association
- Society for Corporate Governance – Member
- American Heart Association Go Red for Women movement, Greater San Francisco Bay Area – Executive Leadership Team
- UPWARD Inc. (non-profit) – Former member of Board of Directors
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Finance > Fintech
- Finance > Project finance
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- International trade and national security > National Security
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense