ABOUT
Gary J. Ross is a leading securities law practitioner in both the investment fund and the venture capital spaces. Gary is the managing partner of Ross Law Group, PLLC, a securities law boutique focused on venture capital and private equity, public and private securities offerings, and general corporate matters. He has substantial experience structuring domestic and cross-border investments and advising as to SEC-registered and exempt capital markets transactions. His experience includes testifying in court as an expert on securities law matters.
Gary is the host of the American Bar Association Business Law Section podcast VC Law. Gary is active in the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, and has participated in the drafting for several of the ABA’s comment letters to various SEC proposed rules or requests for comments, primarily relating to exempt offerings.
Prior to founding RLG predecessor firm Jackson Ross PLLC in 2013, Gary worked in the Capital Markets and Corporate Transactions & Securities practice groups at Sidley Austin LLP and Alston & Bird LLP, respectively. 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 was an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School for five years, has lectured at institutions and schools such as the World Bank, 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 various aspects of securities laws. He has been quoted in articles in Law360, MarketWatch, Corporate Counsel, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times and the Associated Press.
Gary has also served as a consultant (Senior Legal Counsel) to the World Bank. Gary has advised the World Bank on legal and regulatory frameworks for venture capital, including the development and implementation of venture capital legislation and regulatory structures in emerging market economies.
Gary received his Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University School of Law and his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami. He is admitted to practice law in New York, Georgia, and the District of Columbia.
