Neil Ruben

Practice Areas

Private Equity

Growth and VC Investments

Mergers & Acquisitions

Corporate Governance

Securities & Equity Financing Transactions

Fund Formation & Capital Raising

Family Offices & Institutional Investors

Insolvency & Creditors' Rights

Independent Sponsors & Co-Investments

Career

Previous: Corporate Associate, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY

Professional Memberships

NY, Connecticut, American and Fairfield County Bar Associations

Vice Chair of the New York State Bar Association Business Law Section M&A Committee (2024)

Publications

“Fiduciary Duty And Drag-Along Pitfalls And Drafting Tips,” Deal Points, Newsletter of the ABA Mergers and Acquisitions Committee (Fall 2017);

"Duty to Creditors in Insolvency and the Zone of Insolvency: Delaware and the Alternatives," NYU Journal of Law & Business, Volume 7-1 (2010), as cited in Quadrant Structured Products Co., Ltd. v. Vertin, 102 A.3d 155 (Del. Ch. Oct 01, 2014).

Personal

Past Member, Board of Directors of the American Friends of the Jordan River Village Foundation, part of Paul Newman’s world-wide SeriousFun Children’s Network.

Work Highlights

Neil’s sponsor clients include private equity, growth equity, and venture capital funds, fundless sponsors and other market participants. He represents both emerging and established companies as well as their boards of directors. He has broad experience in diverse industries that include higher education, technology, hospitality, healthcare, media, consumer products, financial services, professional services and fashion. Neil's regular engagements include: portfolio company acquisitions and sales; portfolio company add-on acquisitions; venture capital, growth equity and convertible note investments; joint ventures and “acquire-hire” transactions; securities transactions and co-investments; recapitalizations; corporate governance and complex dispute resolution matters. He also provides efficient “outside general counsel” representation for funds and companies that do not employ in-house general counsel.

Neil is the Vice Chair of the New York State Bar Association Business Law M&A Committee. He is a frequent speaker at NYSBA Business Law Section M&A Committee events.

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