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

Neil represents a variety of equity sponsors and emerging and established companies in a wide range of transactions.

His equity sponsor clients include private equity, growth equity, and venture capital funds, and fundless sponsors and other market participants. He also represents emerging and established companies and their boards of directors.

Neil has broad experience across diverse sectors—including service, software, trade, B2B, and consumer products—and thrives on mastering the intricacies of new industries.

Recent substantive experience includes serving as lead counsel for transactions spanning a diverse array of industries, such as real estate valuations and originations, facilities and trades, higher education, artificial intelligence (AI), hospitality, healthcare, sporting goods, financial services, manufacturing, professional services, and fashion.

He has recently advised sponsors such as L Catterton, Gridiron Capital, and Dubin Clark.

Neil's regular engagements include:

• Acquisitions and sales

• Portfolio company add-on acquisitions

• Venture capital and growth equity and convertible note investments

• Efficient outside general counsel representation for governance, equity and other matters

• Joint ventures and “acquire-hire” transactions

• Coinvestments and SPV fundraising transactions

• Recapitalizations, restructurings, and dividends

• Corporate governance

• Dispute resolution

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.

Education

Awards