Joshua A. Apfelroth

Joshua A. Apfelroth is a business lawyer at Proskauer Rose LLP, who advises clients on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and other major business transactions. His work covers public and private acquisitions, sales, tender offers, exchange offers, spinoffs, joint ventures, and corporate control contests. He also guides companies, investors, hedge funds, investment banks, and family offices on governance and securities issues. Clients rely on his steady advice when transactions involve difficult rules, competing interests, and time-sensitive business decisions across active markets.

Joshua earned his J.D. from American University Washington College of Law. He also earned his B.A. from American University in Washington, D.C. This education supports his work with contracts, company structures, finance issues, and legal duties. His training helps him explain complex deal terms in clear language, review risks, and support leaders as they make choices that can affect companies, investors, workers, and business partners across many industries during important corporate changes. It also supports detailed negotiations, governance questions, transaction documents, and decision-making with focus and sound judgment.

Joshua has built a practice that reaches infrastructure, energy, shipping and logistics, technology, media and entertainment, life sciences, real estate, and financial services. He has notable experience with cross-border transactions involving hard infrastructure assets. His work also includes distressed companies and assets, including workouts, distressed investments, and mergers and acquisitions. In these matters, he helps clients protect value, manage risk, and move through difficult situations with practical legal guidance and organized deal support from start to finish.

Joshua A. Apfelroth helps people by giving business leaders, boards, and investors the legal direction they need before making major decisions. He advises on directors’ duties, board composition, public disclosure, state law compliance, shareholder activism, and commercial matters. His guidance can help clients avoid disputes, complete transactions, respond to pressure, and follow legal obligations. Through careful corporate counsel, he supports stronger planning, clearer decisions, and more secure outcomes in complex business matters with lasting commercial impact.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP
• Member, New York State Bar Association

Licensed State

• New York

Education

• American University Washington College of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• American University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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