Vincent Louwagie

Practice Areas

Complex Commercial Litigation with an emphasis in Complex Investment Disputes and Complex Shareholder Disputes.

Career

Vincent Louwagie is a successful senior trial lawyer who practices in all areas of business litigation with an emphasis in complex investment and shareholder matters. During his 32-year career Vince has been consistently and widely recognized as one of the top business litigators in the state of Minnesota and has tried numerous cases to verdict or arbitration award in Minnesota and throughout the country.

Vince’s experience is enhanced by his previous work as a financial auditor with KPMG. That background allows him to better understand the transactions and financial reports that form the backbone of his clients’ investments. It also helps him probe those transactions for financial fraud. He has litigated disputes involving investments of all kinds, and has tried numerous cases to arbitration award, court or jury verdicts.

Professional Memberships

Past President, Board of Directors, Hennepin County Bar Foundation (HCBF)

Chair of the Development Committee (2014-2016), Hennepin County Bar Foundation (HCBF)

HCBA Representative, Minnesota State Bar Association Assembly

Member, Minnesota Chapter of the Federal Bar Association

Member, Hennepin County Bar Association Member, Minnesota State Bar Association

Member, Private Business Governance Committee, Minnesota State Bar Association’s Business Law Section

Member, Federal Bar Association

2016-2017 Chair, Partners in Excellence Annual Fund for University of Minnesota Law School

Publications

Unsettled: When Fraud Defeats The Effect of a Release, Minnesota Lawyer and Finance & Commerce – Partner Content, May 2021

OK Boomer, You Do Have Special Civil Remedies for Consumer Fraud; Minnesota Lawyer and Finance & Commerce – Partner Content, December 2019

Vincent Louwagie featured in Hennepin Lawyer: 2018-2019 HCBF President; November/ December, Vol. 87, Issue 6

Lessons From Jury Service, Attorney At Law Magazine – Twin Cities Edition, September 2015

Minnesota Public Benefit Corporation: Vehicle for Public Good or Abuse?, Attorney At Law Magazine – Twin Cities Edition, November 2014

Damages in Fraud Cases, Not Just Out-Of-Pockets, co-authored with Andrea Davenport, The Hennepin Lawyer, July 2013

Business Valuations in Marital Dissolutions, Attorney At Law Magazine – Twin Cities Edition, February 2013

Cutting the Cost of Derivative Claims: The Role of the Special Litigation Committee, co-authored with Cory D. Olson, Bench & Bar of Minnesota, March 2009

Will Counsel Please Take the Stand? The Hennepin Lawyer, February 2001

Minority Shareholder Disputes. Seminar – 2001, Minnesota Institute of Legal Education, 2001

When Abel Sues Cain: How Minority Shareholders Seek Redress for Corporate Wrongs in Light of Wessin v. Archives, The Hennepin Lawyer, September 1999

Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Investors’ Rights, The Hennepin Lawyer, March/April 1996

Personal

Committee Member, drafting or amending the Minnesota Business Corporations Code, Revised

Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, and the Minnesota Public Benefits Corporation Act