Lou serves as co-founder and principal at Valiant Litigation Finance, LLC. He is an entrepreneur, business executive, and securities attorney, who has been in practice for nearly two decades. He currently is a founding member of two nationally recognized law firms and a financial consulting firm. Besides his substantial legal experience, he has more than fifteen years of management and executive level business experience at a number of large national and multinational corporations.

Prior to Lou’s present career as an attorney, his business experience included the following: In the technology industry, he held engineering, senior engineering and executive level management positions at numerous large and respected national and international companies, to include, Unisys, NGK/ NTK, Motorola, and Varta Gmbh. In the banking and financial services industry, he began his career as a mortgage broker and ascended to becoming an executive level manager at a major national bank. In addition, he served as managing partner of a boutique securities broker dealer, where he had responsibility for all operations of the office, including management of registered representatives, profit and loss responsibility, and oversight of day to day activities.

Lou holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, and three advanced degrees, including a Master of Science, a Master of Arts, and a Juris Doctor. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, New York University-Polytechnic Institute, and University of Illinois School of Law at Chicago, where he was an honored recipient of the Ronald Rosenberg academic scholarship, and where he graduated with Dean’s List honors. He has also been an active member of the Illinois and New York Bar associations, and he is a former graduate level college professor of corporate and employment law.