Education
- Hofstra University School of Law (J.D., With Distinction, 2001)
Hofstra Law Review, Articles Editor; Hofstra Honors Scholarship Recipient
- Pace University (B.B.A., Summa Cum Laude, 1998)
Trustee's Award Recipient (Valedictorian); Alpha Chi National H.Y. Benedict Graduate Fellowship Recipient
Bar Admissions
- Delaware, 2008
- New York, 2002
- New Jersey, 2001
Professional Experience
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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Associate (2002-2007)
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The Honorable Vice Chancellor John W. Noble, Delaware Court of Chancery, Judicial Law Clerk (2001-2002)
Bradley R. Aronstam
Partner
The Nemours Building
1007 North Orange Street
P.O. Box 2207
Wilmington, DE 19899
Bradley R. Aronstam is a Partner in the firm’s Business Law Group. He represents clients in a variety of areas, including corporate and commercial litigation; corporate governance; corporate counseling; and mergers and acquisitions.
In addition to regularly litigating business disputes before the Delaware Court of Chancery, Brad frequently advises directors and board committees on a wide variety of corporate matters, including internal investigations. Brad has extensive experience on matters concerning the business judgment rule and the fiduciary duties of directors and officers, interested director and controlling shareholder transactions, and corporate governance.
Brad is a frequent contributor to a number of corporate law blogs, including TheCorporateCounsel.net and DealLawyers.com, on developments in Delaware corporate law. In 2008, Brad was appointed Co-Vice Chair of an ABA Task Force established by the Corporate Governance Committee of the ABA's Business Law Section to examine the delineation of governance roles and responsibilities of shareholders and directors and the extent to which those roles and responsibilities have changed (or are changing) in light of current events. The Task Force's final report, which was presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the ABA in Chicago, was published in the November 2009 issue of the Business Lawyer.
Before joining the firm, Brad was an attorney with Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York. He also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Vice Chancellor John W. Noble of the Delaware Court of Chancery.
Representative Cases
News
Legal Publications
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Recent Proxy Amendments To The DGCL: While Stockholder-Friendly, Their Effect On The Traditional Allocation Of Power Between Directors And Stockholders Remains To Be Seen, Delaware Business Law & Litigation Report (June 2009)
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Delaware’s Business Judgment Rule and Varying Standards of Review, Canadian Institute’s Seventh Annual Advanced Forum on Securities Litigation (Nov. 2007) (with Irwin H. Warren)
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New Wave of M&A Litigation Attacks Private Equity Deals: Different Players But Guiding Legal Principles Remain the Same, N.Y. L.J., July 9, 2007, at 9 (with Joseph S. Allerhand)
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Revisiting Delaware’s Going Private Dilemma Post–Pure Resources, 59 Bus. Law. 1459 (2004) (with R. Franklin Balotti & Timo Rehbock)
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Delaware’s Going Private Dilemma: Fostering Protections for Minority Shareholders in the Wake of Siliconix and Unocal Exploration, 58 Bus. Law. 519 (2003) (with R. Franklin Balotti & Timo Rehbock)
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The Interplay of Blasius and Unocal–A Compelling Problem Justifying the Call for Substantial Change, 81 Or. L. Rev. 429 (2002)
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The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995’s Paradigm of Ambiguity: A Circuit Split Ripe for Certiorari, 28 Hofstra L. Rev. 1061 (2000)


