• Legal 500
    Legal 500 US, M&A: Middle-Market, 2023-2024
  • Best Lawyers
    Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law, 2023-2025

Overview

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

J.D., Vanderbilt University, 2003

B.A., University of the South, 2000, summa cum laude; with departmental honors

Attended, University of Edinburgh, 1999

  • North Carolina, 2005
  • Georgia, 2003
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"Rob Rust has helped us invest in or acquire over 50 companies over the past 5 years. He works to understand our model and craft the legal strategy accordingly." - Legal 500, 2024

Legal 500 US, M&A: Middle-Market, 2023-2024

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