Louise K.Y. Ing is a partner in Dentons' Honolulu office. Louise believes the better you know the community, the more you can help your client. Her deep connections to local businesses and nonprofits allow her to make the most of relationships relevant to her clients’ business.

Louise’s practice focuses on helping businesses, nonprofits and individuals resolve disputes, and get back to work as well as prevent future conflict. Her litigation and dispute resolution experience includes contracts, commercial transactions, leases, employment, real estate, creditors’ rights and bankruptcy law, proprietary rights, board governance, and intellectual property matters.

To help strengthen Hawaii's communities, Louise has devoted considerable energy serving on nonprofit and for-profit boards.  She currently serves on the boards of Child & Family Service and Kristi Yamaguchi’s Always Dream.  She is a past director of The Tradewind Group, American Savings Bank and Aloha Airlines. She also served as a past president of the Hawaii State Bar Association and the Hawaii State Bar Foundation. She currently co-chairs the Hawai`i chapter of Women Corporate Directors, the world’s largest community of women corporate directors.

Louise's awards and recognitions include: Best Lawyers in America’s® 2015 Hawai‘i Lawyer of the Year for both Bankruptcy Litigation and Bet-the-Company Litigation; Benchmark Litigation's Top 250 Women in Litigation; Best Lawyers in America® in the categories of Commercial Litigation, Bet–the-Company Litigation, Bankruptcy Litigation, Labor and Employment Litigation, and Real Estate Litigation; Chambers USA™; Martindale-Hubbell AV rating; Super Lawyers; National Asian and Pacific American Bar Association’s Daniel K. Inouye Trailblazer award; the Patsy T. Mink PAC award for her legislative advocacy work on women’s reproductive health issues; and leadership awards from Hawaii Women Lawyers, Hawaii State Bar Association, the YWCA of O`ahu, Girl Scouts of Hawaii, and Pacific Business News.

Born in Honolulu, Louise earned her JD from UC, Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, and her BA, magna cum laude, in American studies, from Yale University. She is married with two children—a daughter pursuing her passion for dance and a son who is a proud employee of the Boston Red Sox.