Gary Ross

Gary J. Ross focuses his practice on securities law, venture capital and private equity, corporate governance, and general corporate matters. Gary has extensive experience representing small- to large-cap companies in public securities offerings, including initial public offerings of common equity, follow-on common stock offerings, preferred stock offerings, offerings of convertible and exchangeable securities, and offerings of senior and subordinated debt securities. He has spent his legal career providing advice to clients as to the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Gary also regularly counsels private companies and investors in structuring private venture capital investments, including cross-border investments. He is particularly active in West Africa and India. He has worked with companies in many sectors, including entertainment, real estate, and FinTech. His experience includes expert witness engagements in commercial litigation matters.Gary is the creator and host of the American Bar Association podcast series VC Law. Gary is active in the Business Law Section of the ABA, and has participated in the drafting for several of the ABA’s comment letters to various SEC proposed rules or requests for comments. He is the current ABA Editorial Board Producer for Securities Law. Prior to founding RLG predecessor firm Jackson Ross PLLC in 2013, Gary worked in the Capital Markets practice group at Sidley Austin LLP, a practice group which is consistently considered one of the top capital markets practices in the world. He also worked in the Corporate Transactions & Securities group at Alston & Bird LLP. From 2009 to 2012, Gary served in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he oversaw contractors and financial agents engaged by Treasury to provide asset management, advisory, and other services relating to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Gary has been an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School for the past five years, has lectured at institutions such as the World Bank and schools such as Northwestern University School of Law, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, Fordham University School of Law, Penn State Dickinson Law and The New School, and frequently teaches Continuing Legal Education programs on securities laws relating to public and private offerings. He has been quoted in articles in MarketWatch, Corporate Counsel, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times and the Associated Press. He has been quoted in articles in Law360, MarketWatch, Corporate Counsel, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times and the Associated Press.