For nearly 25 years, Ashley Hess has been helping clients execute their strategic growth opportunities, whether through mergers and acquisitions, new investments in, or acquisition of, technology assets, or starting or expanding manufacturing capabilities.
Ashley is a corporate transactional attorney with broad experience representing public and private companies on matters ranging from mergers, acquisitions and divestitures to joint ventures, corporate governance and complex corporate transactions. He has extensive experience in the automotive industry, including advising clients on issues related to autonomous vehicles, technology acquisitions, supply chain matters, joint ventures and other collaborative development relationships. Ashley’s practice has developed at the intersection of technology and manufacturing, including transactions involving SaaS businesses, robotics, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. His experience includes acquisitions involving government contracting entities and acquisitions of technology assets developed pursuant to government contracts.
Ashley is the Cincinnati Business Leader, chairs the firm’s Technology in Manufacturing national industry and is recognized as a leading corporate and M&A attorney in Ohio. He regularly speaks and writes on transactional legal issues and is active in the ABA’s M&A Committee where he serves as the Chair of Programs and Publications.
Ashley is the Partner-In-Charge of the Cincinnati office and serves on the firm’s Operating Group.