Gasthalter & Co.: Financial Communications Firm Profile

Updated July 25, 2026

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Gasthalter & Co. LP

Gasthalter & Co. LP is a boutique strategic communications and media relations firm focused exclusively on providing senior-level counsel to leading hedge funds, private equity, real estate, venture capital, and other alternative investment managers, technology companies, trading and digital asset platforms, public and privately held corporations, and high-profile individuals. The firm is headquartered in New York City at 777 Third Avenue, with a second office in Chicago, and serves clients worldwide.

Founder and leadership

Jonathan Gasthalter serves as Managing Partner. With more than 25 years of experience advising leading global private investment firms and public companies, Gasthalter has developed expertise across hedge funds, private equity, real estate, credit, venture, and asset management firms, banks, and financial services companies. Prior to founding Gasthalter & Co., he was a partner at Sard Verbinnen & Co. Earlier in his career, he served as a press aide in the Executive Offices of the New York State Attorney General. Nathaniel Garnick serves as Managing Director.

Practice areas

Reputation and crisis management, media relations, corporate positioning, regulatory issues, proxy contests, management changes, shareholder activism, litigation support, investor communications, profile raising, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital advisory, private equity communications, technology communications, and digital asset positioning.

Recognition

Named to Observer's 2024 PR Power List as a Top PR Firm in Finance. Recognized by The Deal as a leading PR firm in M&A and Private Equity in 2023. The firm is consistently retained on contested situations across alternative investment management, where bet-the-firm decisions require senior counsel and proactive reputation management.

Specialization

Gasthalter & Co. operates exclusively at the senior-counsel level. The firm focuses on the hedge fund, private equity, venture, real estate, credit, technology, and digital asset client base, with bench depth in proxy contests, activist defense, IPO and M&A communications, regulatory matters, and high-stakes media relations.

On the technology side, the firm's client roster includes AcreTrader, the farmland investment platform; Boomy, the generative AI music platform; and eToro, the social investing and multi-asset trading platform.

Related agency profiles

Financial communications & M&A advisory: Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher · Sard Verbinnen & Co · FGS Global · Kekst CNC · ICR · Prosek Partners · Stanton · H/Advisors Abernathy

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Correction, July 25, 2026: An earlier version of this profile stated that the firm does not run a technology practice. Gasthalter & Co. advises technology clients, including AcreTrader, Boomy, and eToro. The profile has been corrected.

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