Noah Kressler has a national practice advising clients on a wide range of business and financing transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, securities law, and corporate governance matters. He has advised clients on over $50 billion in transactions.
Noah counsels middle-market companies, family businesses, financial institutions, multinational corporations, private equity sponsors and sponsor-backed companies, non-profits, and high-growth startups on complex corporate and financing transactions. These clients operate across a variety of industries, including health care, technology, hospitality, manufacturing, life sciences, financial services, insurance, franchising, gaming, consumer products, food and beverage, entertainment, and media. He represents clients across the country, including many of Louisiana's most well-known established and emerging companies. He has been listed annually in Chambers USA as a leading Corporate/M&A lawyer in Louisiana since 2020 and is regularly recognized as one of the state's most prominent transactional lawyers.
He brings deep, nationwide experience advising clients on complex mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. His practice spans work with private equity firms, joint ventures, strategic investments, public and private offerings of equity and debt – from initial public offerings and venture capital financings to private placements, municipal bond offerings, and acquisition and commercial financings.
Since 2014, Noah has been an adjunct professor of law at Tulane Law School. Prior to joining Baker Donelson, he practiced in New York and London at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP for nearly a decade. Noah serves as chair of BakerPride, Baker Donelson's LGBTQ employee resource group, and on a number of strategic firm initiatives.