ASHE LOCKHART — Partner, LOCKHART, pllc (formerly, Lockhart Hornby, PLLC and The Business Law Advisors)
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Ashe is a business lawyer and has been with the firm since 2005. He has a business, corporate and technology practice focused on working with small business and startup, emerging growth, technology and privately owned middle-market companies. He provides general business, corporate and technology legal services, including business organization and reorganization; private placement, venture capital and loan financing; mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances; simple and complex business, sales, e-commerce and internet 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 University of North Carolina 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 his personal website at AsheLockhart.com.
