W Ashley Hess

Practice Areas

For nearly 25 years, Ashley Hess has been helping clients execute their strategic growth opportunities, whether through mergers and acquisitions, investments in new technologies or starting or expanding manufacturing capabilities.

Ashley is a corporate transactional attorney with broad experience representing public and private companies on matters ranging from mergers, acquisitions and divestitures to joint ventures, corporate governance and complex corporate transactions. He has extensive experience in the automotive industry, including advising clients on issues related to autonomous vehicles, technology acquisitions, supply chain matters, joint ventures and other collaborative development relationships.

Ashley is the Cincinnati Office Business Practice Group Leader, chairs the firm’s Technology in Manufacturing national industry team and is recognized as a leading corporate and M&A attorney in Ohio. He regularly speaks and writes on transactional legal issues and is active in the ABA’s M&A Committee where he serves as the Chair of Programs and Publications.

Ashley is the Partner-In-Charge of the Cincinnati office and serves on the firm’s Operating Group.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

-- Business Law Section: Mergers and Acquisitions Committee

-- Market Trends Subcommittee

Ohio State Bar Association

Kentucky Bar Association

State Bar of Texas

Cincinnati Bar Association

Cincinnati Academy of Leadership for Lawyers (Class of 2004)