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Ashe has a business and corporate practice focusing on startups,
small business, emerging growth and mid-size privately owned
companies and technology businesses. He assists clients with
business organization and reorganization; private placement, venture
capital and loan financing; mergers, acquisitions, strategic
alliances and joint ventures; simple and complex business, sales and
technology transactions; and intellectual property, software and
technology transactions, including development, licensing, data
management, application hosting, outsourcing, tech transfer,
copyright and trademarks. Following graduation from law school,
Ashe was a law clerk to Burley B. Mitchell, Jr., Chief Justice of
the
Supreme Court of North Carolina. He later practiced in business,
government relations and litigation with The Sanford Holshouser Law
Firm in Raleigh. Ashe returned to Charlotte and started Lockhart +
Hoffman, PLLC, a boutique law firm working with startups and
technology companies. After building the practice for two years, he
merged L+H with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, and continued
to provide a wide variety of business, corporate and intellectual
property legal services. Ashe serves on the boards of the
Charlotte Region of the Small Business and Technology Development
Center (SBTDC) and
the North Carolina
Journal of Law & Technology. He has lectured on Internet law at
UNC School of Law
and at Mecklenburg County Bar CLE programs. Ashe was on the board of
directors of the Business Innovation and Growth Council (BIG,
formerly known as the Metrolina Entrepreneurial Council or MEC),
where he led the MEC’s reorganization as the Interim Executive
Director. He later developed the new name and branding concept for
BIG. Ashe’s diverse background includes six years in banking
following completion of the management training program at First
Union National Bank (now Wachovia). Ashe was an electronic warfare
intelligence operator in the
U.S. Army,
Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM).
In 1983, he served in the Invasion of Grenada as a paratrooper in
the 82nd Airborne Division. Ashe received his JD from the
UNC School of Law
in Chapel Hill and his BA from
UNC-Charlotte with a
major in History and a minor in International Studies. He is
licensed to practice in North Carolina. Ashe is a native Charlottean
and fourth generation North Carolina lawyer. He maintains a website at
AsheLockhart.com. |
Direct (704) 496-2862
PRACTICE AREAS
Business
Corporate
Technology
EDUCATION
University of North
Carolina, JD, 1997
Univ of North Carolina at
Charlotte, BA, 1988
BAR ADMISSION
1997 North Carolina |
