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AI, Automation, and Robotics Are Reshaping Value Creation for Private Equity
I have spent close to three decades sitting across deal tables from private equity sponsors, and for most of that time the game looked the same.
May 25 • Louis Lehot
The Weekly Docket
By Louis Lehot, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP. Garage to global, since Y2K. #AskASiliconValleyLawyer · Vol. I, No. 22 · May 23, 2026
May 23 • Louis Lehot
One Week Left to Sign Up for This Month's Hard Things Event
As a reminder, Hard Things is an ongoing, invite-only event series co-organized by Mavka Capital and Foley & Lardner LLP, dedicated to the founders…
May 22 • Louis Lehot
From Punchline to Platform: Hard Things Round Two and the Real History of Robotics
Coming out of our Hard Things series, I wrote a piece for JD Supra highlighting that physical AI isn’t emerging because of hype alone.
May 19 • Louis Lehot
The Weekly Docket
By Louis Lehot, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP. Garage to global, since Y2K.
May 18 • Louis Lehot
When the Ground Moves Beneath Your Feet: Notes from a PE-Backed CFO Forum
By Louis Lehot
May 18 • Louis Lehot
What We Took Home From Milken Week
Three of us spent last week in Beverly Hills for the Milken Institute Global Conference.
May 13 • Louis Lehot
21x for Three Companies, 3.1x for Everybody Else: Quick Take on the May 2026 Technology Market
Written for founders, CEOs, CFOs, and directors who actually have to decide something.
May 12 • Louis Lehot
The Weekly Docket
By Louis Lehot, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP. Garage to global, since Y2K.
May 11 • Louis Lehot
Business & Legal Developments May 2026
Friends,
May 6 • Louis Lehot
The Weekly Docket - Legal, Business and Technology News From the Heart of the Silicon Valley
The Weekly Docket
May 5 • Louis Lehot
Foley Represents VC Firm Mighty Capital in $91M Fund III
Excited to share that Foley & Lardner LLP recently represented Mighty Capital, a venture capital firm specializing in product-led investing, in the…
May 2 • Louis Lehot
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