Louis Rambo is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Capital Markets Group. He focuses his practice on counseling public companies and their boards of directors on corporate governance, capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation, disclosure and shareholder activism. Drawing on his previous tenure with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of Corporation Finance, Louis partners with clients on capital raising, including underwritten equity transactions, at-the-market offerings and high-yield and investment grade debt offerings, as well as on structuring M&A transactions, spin-offs, tender offers and going private transactions. He advises public companies on developing governance and disclosure matters, including director independence, compensation, insider trading issues, shareholder proposals and stockholder meetings, and advises on shareholder activism and takeover defense.
Louis also regularly advises hedge funds, private equity funds, family offices, private companies and other financial institutions on a wide range of transactional and securities regulatory compliance matters, including capital raising, PIPEs and secondary transactions, novel and complex beneficial ownership issues arising under the federal securities laws, derivative transactions, insider trading issues and policies and compliance programs.
Louis previously served as an attorney with the SEC in the Division of Corporation Finance. While at the SEC, Louis worked on a number of transactional and securities compliance matters.