Layla Lumpkin
Partner, Thompson Hine’s Corporate Transactions and Securities Practice
Layla Dotson Lumpkin is a partner in Thompson Hine’s Corporate Transactions & Securities Practice. She focuses her legal practice on venture capital and emerging company transactions and mergers and acquisitions. Layla has extensive experience advising early-stage companies and venture capital investors through the venture capital financing process. She also serves as outside general counsel to early stage companies and helps form emerging manager funds.
Layla counsels clients acquiring and selling companies in middle-market transactions, including private equity buyers and sellers, strategic acquirers and operator sellers.
Layla invests her funds and time in the early stage company ecosystem, including mentoring startups. She regularly presents on early-stage company and small business legal issues and teaches a course in entrepreneurship law and venture capital finance to law students.