Practice Areas
Education
- Hofstra University School of Law (J.D., With Distinction, 2001)
Law Journal: Hofstra Law Review, Articles Editor
Honors: 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 ExperienceWeil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Associate (2002-2008)
The Honorable Vice Chancellor John W. Noble, Delaware Court of Chancery, Judicial Law Clerk (2001-2002)
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Bradley R. Aronstam is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Business Law Group. He represents clients in a variety of areas including corporate and commercial litigation and corporate counseling. 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 currently serving as Co-Vice Chair of an ABA Task Force established by the Corporate Governance Committee of the ABA's Business Law Section to examine the traditional boundary between the role of shareholders and the role of directors. An overview of the Task Force's White Paper was presented at the 2009 Spring Meeting of the ABA Section of Business Law in Vancouver, BC and it is contemplated that the Task Force will issue its formal Report this upcoming August at the ABA's Summer Meeting in Chicago.
Before joining the firm, Brad was an associate in the Securities/Corporate Governance Litigation Group of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York.
Prior to his time at Weil Gotshal, Brad served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Vice Chancellor John W. Noble on the Delaware Court of Chancery.
Representative Cases
Merisel, Inc. v. American Capital Strategies, LTD, et al. [2009]- Rohm and Haas Co. v. Dow Chemical Co. [2009]
- Clear Channel Broadcasting, Inc. v. Newport Television, LLC, v. Wachovia Investment Holdings, LLC [2008]
- GE Funding Holdings, Inc. v. FGIC Corporation [2008]
- Williamson v. Cox Communication, Inc., et al. [2007]
- In re Kinder Morgan, Inc. Shareholders Litigation [2006]
- In re 7-Eleven Shareholder Litig. [2005]
- Williamson v. AT&T Corp., et al. [2005]
Legal Publications
- Aronstam, Bradley. "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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Revisiting Delaware’s Going Private Dilemma Post–Pure Resources, 59 Bus. Law. 1459 (2004) (with R. Franklin Balotti & Timo Rehbock)
- 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)
- The Interplay of Blasius and Unocal–A Compelling Problem Justifying the Call for Substantial Change, 81 Or. L. Rev. 429 (2002)
- The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995’s Paradigm of Ambiguity: A Circuit Split Ripe for Certiorari, 28 Hofstra L. Rev. 1061 (2000)
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