Jay Rothman
Chairman &CEO
Foley & Lardner
Jay is a partner, business lawyer, and the chairman and CEO of Foley & Lardner LLP. Jay practices primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities law, takeover defense, and general corporate and business law. He is a member of the firm’s management committee and the former chair of the transactional and securities practice.
Among other transactions, he has structured and negotiated numerous acquisition transactions in various industries and has represented both underwriters and corporate issuers in various public offerings of both debt and equity securities.
Jay is a member of the Milwaukee Bar Association, the State Bar of Wisconsin and the American Bar Association. He graduated,
cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1985 and received his B.A.,
summa cum laude, from Marquette University in 1982.