Rishi K. Sodhi

Rishi Sodhi is a business lawyer who prides himself on solving complex tax issues and structuring transactions to maximize tax benefits and efficiencies while protecting clients from unnecessary risk.

A partner with Foley & Lardner LLP, he is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office and a member of the firm’s Taxation Practice Group.

Rishi’s transactional practice focuses on advising clients on the tax aspects of a wide range of business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, and strategic investments. He represents private equity funds and public multinational corporations on numerous complex domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, serving as the deal lead on all tax-related matters.

Rishi also has significant experience in the tax insurance space, and has worked with some of the world’s leading insurance companies and managing general underwriters assisting in the assessment and underwriting of hundreds of tax risks with collective policy limits in the billions of dollars.

Prior to Foley, Rishi worked as a partner at a large law firm in its office in Los Angeles. He also spent 13 years providing M&A tax advice in the offices of “Big 4” accounting firms in New York and Los Angeles.