David C Rieveschl

Practice Areas

Corporate and Business Law

Mergers and Acquisitions

Securities

Cannabis

Career

David Rieveschl has a diverse practice representing clients in a wide variety of transactional matters. His primary areas include corporate and business, mergers and acquisitions, and securities law. His clients include large and small companies, both public and private, as well as emerging companies, startups, and individual entrepreneurs. He counsels these companies on a wide variety of business issues including legal structure, financial transactions, contract negotiations, intellectual property rights, angel financing, venture capital, and private equity transactions.

Notable matters he has handled include the representation of multiple investors as Louisiana counsel in their successful acquisition and financing of a Louisiana public utility holding company in a $4.7 billion deal that spanned the course of multiple years.

David is head of the firm's Business Section and chair of its Emerging Companies Group.

Professional Memberships

Louisiana Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG Louisiana) Board Member and Past President.

Bureau of Governmental Research Board Member.

Council for a Better Louisiana's (CABL) 2021-2022 Leadership Louisiana participant.

David is also an active member of Louisiana's entrepreneurial ecosystem, and he works with several organizations that support emerging companies and startups, including the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Tulane University and the Louisiana Technology Park.

American Bar Association member.

Louisiana State Bar Association member.

New York Bar Association member.

State Bar of Georgia member.

Bar Association of the District of Columbia member.

He is also active in numerous other civic and community organizations, including the alumni associations of Tulane Law School, Tulane's A.B. Freeman School of Business, Duke University, and The Lawrenceville School.