Gary S. Rothstein represents employers, acquirers, financial sponsors, executives, boards, and compensation committees in compensation and contractual arrangements. Gary is adept and known for his representation of executive teams in buyouts and other transactions, having represented executive teams in 100+ private equity buyout transactions (including the largest leveraged buyout ever completed), as well as multiple IPOs and other transactional matters. Gary also represents private equity sponsors in transactional matters and private equity portfolio companies and public companies on an ongoing basis.
Band 1, Executive Compensation: Mainly Executive Representation, New York, Chambers USA (2021–2023)
Ranked, Executive Compensation: Mainly Executive Representation, New York, Chambers USA (2024)
Ranked, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Nationwide, Chambers USA (2008–2019)
Ranked, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, New York, Chambers USA (2008–2020)
Leading Lawyer, Labor and employment: Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional, The Legal 500 US (2021, 2022)
Recommended, Labor and employment: Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional, The Legal 500 US (2018–2020, 2023, 2024)
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, New York (2008–2025)
Member, Practice Group of the Year, Benefits, Law360 (2022)
Member, Law Firm of the Year, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Chambers USA (2019)
Member, Law Firm of the Year, Employee Benefits (ERISA Law), US News/Best Lawyers – Best Law Firms (2019)
Recognized, Employee Benefits and Pensions, PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook (2008)