Rob Rust

Rob Rust represents clients on a variety of transactional matters, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, commercial contract work and joint ventures. Representation includes Fortune 150 companies, private equity clients and privately held entities operating across various industries and market segments, including manufacturing, professional services and digital consulting with the scope of such representation encompassing complex domestic and cross-border transactions.

Representative Experience

• Regularly represents private equity clients in initial platform investments and tuck-in acquisitions involving complex regulatory compliance and earn out obligations, as well as exit events
• Represents manufacturing clients in a downstream business segment acquisitions and divestitures
• Regularly represent clients on industry-specific roll-up acquisitions
• Represents the founders of digital design and development companies in liquidity events

Notable

• Legal 500 US, M&A: Middle-Market, 2023-2024
• Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law, 2023-2025
• Business North Carolina Legal Elite, Corporate, 2023; Hall of Fame: Corporate Law, 2024
• Member, Phi Beta Kappa
• Past Member, Envision Board of Directors, 2013-2018
• Past Member, Vanderbilt Moot Court Board 
• Past Member, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
• Studied abroad at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland

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Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• North Carolina Bar Association
• Georgia Bar Association (inactive)