Perkins Coie announced that Jill Louis has joined the firm’s Corporate and Securities practice as a partner in the Dallas office as of May 22. Her addition to the Dallas office follows the opening of the firm’s Austin office in February and the recent addition of John Treviño in Dallas, a privacy law attorney, as Perkins Coie continues to grow and expand its Texas operations.

Louis advises public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, franchise transactions, corporate governance matters, and commercial contracts across a wide range of industries, including industrial, retail, technology, healthcare, and business services. She also advises on road transportation issues, project infrastructure matters, and the creation and implementation of contract management processes for public and private companies. Louis has worked with companies of all sizes, from start-ups to Fortune 50 corporations. She served in the corporate legal departments of major Dallas-based corporations for more than 15 years before returning to private practice in 2016. Louis received her J.D. from Harvard University and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Howard University. She is well known in Dallas civic and philanthropic circles and serves on several boards, including as a director at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, an executive board member of PBS television station KERA, and as a member of the board of trustees for Howard University.