Louis Y. Fishman

Fishman Haygood co-founding partner Louis Fishman is counsel to the firm and a member of our Business Section. 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 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.

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 is ranked by Chambers and Partners in Corporate/M&A (Senior Statespeople).

Louis has also been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Corporate Law since the publication’s first edition in 1983. In 2009, he was named the 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.”