Louis Lehot Joins Venture Variety Show to Unpack Market Conditions

Foley & Lardner LLP partner Louis Lehot joined The Venture Variety podcast to discuss IPOs, M&A, and navigating venture in 2025.

Lehot shared insights on the market outlook, highlighting an uptick in dealflow and expressing optimism for IPOs in the year ahead but noting that the “levers of the venture capital system have been gummed up” due to market conditions, the blockage of distributed proceeds to investment, a closed IPO window, and regulatory headwinds in M&A.