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Louis F.Solimine

Partner
Cincinnati

O 513.352.6784

Louis F.Solimine

Partner

Louis is a partner who focuses his practice on corporate transactions and commercial law with extensive experience in general corporate representation of publicly and privately held businesses including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; formation of corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and joint ventures; bank and venture capital financing; Uniform Commercial Code; executive employment consulting and noncompetition agreements; license agreements; and service as corporate director and secretary.

Louis also has extensive experience in major Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases throughout the United States, workouts, other corporate reorganizations and creditors' rights including secured financing and letters of credit; commercial foreclosures; secured party sales and assignments for the benefit of creditors; rights of secured and unsecured creditors, landlords and equipment lessors in bankruptcy.

Chambers USA First-Tier Rankings
Best Lawyers 2025

Selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® for 30 years or longer and named the Best Lawyers® 2018 Litigation-Bankruptcy "Lawyer of the Year" in Cincinnati.

Focus Areas

  • Selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Bankruptcy/Restructuring, Ohio, 2006-2024
  • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® more than 30 years for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, and Litigation-Bankruptcy; named the Best Lawyers® 2018 Litigation-Bankruptcy “Lawyer of the Year” in Cincinnati
  • Selected to the Ohio Super Lawyers list, 2004-2016
  • Listed in Legal 500 in Mergers and Acquisitions, 2014
  • Selected to Top 50: Cincinnati Super Lawyers List, 2004
  • Named a Cincy Leading Lawyer by Cincy Magazine
  • AV® Preeminent Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Professional Associations

  • Ohio State Bar Association
  • Cincinnati Bar Association
  • Corporate and Securities Law Committee
  • Bankruptcy Committee
  • Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, chair 2006 to 2008

Community Activities

  • St. Ursula Villa School, past vice chairman and secretary

Professional Activities

  • Tri-State Association for Corporate Renewal
  • Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas,  Arbitration Panel, chairman

Education

  • University of Cincinnati College of Law, J.D., 1976,

    executive editor, University of Cincinnati Law Review, 1975-1976

  • Wright State University, B.A., 1973,
    summa cum laude

Bar Admissions

  • Ohio