Louis Y. Fishman
Recognized since 1983
New Orleans, Louisiana
Banking and Finance Law
Corporate Law
Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Securities / Capital Markets Law
Louis Fishman is a founder and former partner and senior partner of Fishman Haygood, who now serves as counsel to the firm. His transactional practice includes corporation law, securities, and mergers and acquisitions. He also counsels clients on resolving disputes within family and other closely held businesses.
Louis has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America®, in Corporate Law, since that publication’s first edition in 1983. In 2009, he was named that publication’s first New Orleans Corporate Lawyer of the Year and its first New Orleans Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year in 2010. In 2011, Lawdragon named Louis to its “500 Leading Lawyers in America” guide, which represents far less than 1 percent of the legal profession, and called him “without question one of the very best corporate transactional attorneys in the South.”
For his distinguished professional achievements and his enduring dedication to the mission and students of Tulane Law School, Louis was selected for induction into the 2024 Tulane Law Hall of Fame Class.
Louis was a founder and has served since 1988 on the planning committee of Tulane’s Corporate Law Institute, and as a member of the Advisory Board of Editors for the Tulane Law Review since 1991. He has held several key posts, including chairman, of the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Section on Corporation and Business Law and has served as a member of that Section’s Corporate Laws Committee. Louis is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Tulane Law School, where he currently teaches a mini-course on corporate governance.
- Direct Phone Number: 504-586-5252
- Phone Number: 504-586-5252
- Lawyer Page: https://fishmanhaygood.com/attorneys/louis-y-fishman/
- 201 Saint Charles Avenue, Suite 4600
New Orleans, LA 70170-4600
- English
- Tulane University, J.D., graduated 1965
- Louisiana, 1965
21 The Best Lawyers in America® awards
8 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America awards
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law, New Orleans (2014)
- Corporate Law, New Orleans (2013)
- Banking and Finance Law, New Orleans (2012)
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law, New Orleans (2010)
- Corporate Law, New Orleans (2009)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Banking
- Capital Markets
- Corporate Compliance
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Regulatory
- Securities
- Transactions
- Listed, Louisiana SuperLawyers
- Chambers Corporate/M&A Level 1
- Best Lawyers first M&A Lawyer of the Year for New Orleans, 2010
- Best Lawyers first Corp Lawyer of the Year for New Orleans, 2009
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