Bio

Gary Bronstein is a Team Leader of the firm's Financial Services team. Gary provides a broad spectrum of strategic advice to financial institution and public company clients. He concentrates on initial public offerings and other specialized public and private capital raising transactions, mergers and acquisitions, proxy contests, and a host of other corporate and securities law matters that arise during the life of clients. Gary has had extensive experience with financial institution enforcement cases creating resolution strategies, negotiating settlements and leading internal investigations. He also advises on corporate governance for public company clients and clients that have been the subject of enforcement proceedings. Some highlights of Gary's career include representing dozens of corporate clients with public and private equity and debt financings; assisting in the structuring, negotiation and completion of dozens of merger transactions involving both public and private companies; representing both corporate clients and dissident shareholders in defending against and waging proxy contests; representing several fintech and start-up companies on a variety of transactions, including corporate mergers and several rounds of equity and debt financings; and leading multiple internal investigations of financial fraud involving management of private and public company clients. Prior to entering private practice, he served as an attorney with the Division of Corporation Finance and Division of Market Regulation at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Gary has been recognized in 2021 and the eight years immediately preceding as a Washington D.C. “Super Lawyer” in the area of Securities & Corporate Finance by Super Lawyers magazine. He has led or co-led many of the Financial Institutions team’s merger and acquisition and capital-raising transactions for which the firm has been consistently recognized, including national practice area recognition by Chambers USA (2014–2022). He was recommended by Legal 500 US for Mergers & Acquisitions in 2022 and also in 2020 and the four years immediately preceding and is AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.*