Louis Y Fishman

Practice Areas

Fishman Haygood co-founding partner Louis Fishman is counsel to the firm. His transactional practice included corporation law, securities, and mergers and acquisitions. He also counseled clients on resolving disputes within family and other closely held businesses.

Career

Louis has been recognized by 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, calling him “without question one of the very best corporate transactional attorneys in the South.”

He 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 with the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Section on Corporation and Business Law, including chairman, 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.

For his distinguished professional achievements and his enduring dedication to the mission and students of Tulane Law School, Louis was inducted in 2024 into the Tulane Law School Hall of Fame.