Bradley R. Aronstam

Bradley R. Aronstam specializes in Delaware corporate law and represents clients in a variety of areas, including corporate and commercial litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery, corporate counseling, and mergers and acquisitions. 

Brad began his legal career as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Vice Chancellor John W. Noble of the Delaware Court of Chancery.  Following his clerkship, Brad practiced for five years at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in the firm's Securities and Corporate Governance Litigation Group in New York.  He returned to Delaware in 2008 and practiced in the Business Law Group of Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP before becoming a founding partner of Seitz Ross.

Brad is recognized in Chambers USA as an “up and coming” practitioner in the Court of Chancery.  He is currently representing defendants in class and derivative litigation in that Court challenging Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s $2.1 billion acquisition of McMoRan Exploration, Leucadia National’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Jefferies Group, and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners’ $5 billion acquisition of Copano Energy.  He also recently represented Complete Genomics and its directors in opposing efforts to preliminarily enjoin Complete Genomics' acquisition of BGI-Shenzhen, as well as Cypress Semiconductor in defeating a stockholder challenge to Cypress's acquisition of Ramtron International.

In addition to litigating disputes before the Court of Chancery, Brad frequently advises directors and special committees on litigation, transactional and corporate governance issues, pre-suit litigation demands, and internal investigations.  He also regularly writes on developments in Delaware corporate law and contributes to corporate law blogs, including TheCorporateCounsel.net and DealLawyers.com.  Recent publications include Caveat Emptor: Contractual Indemnification Provisions in Acquisition Agreements and Resulting Acquirer Risk for Unknown Actions of Target Fiduciaries (M&A Lawyer 2013); Post-Closing Litigation Risk in M&A Actions (Insights 2012); and Retracing Delaware’s Corporate Roots Through Recent Decisions: Corporate Foundations Remain Stable While Judicial Standards of Review Continue to Evolve (Delaware Law Review 2010).

In 2009, Brad was appointed Co-Vice Chair of the 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 in light of the then unraveling financial crisis.  The Task Force’s final report, which was delivered to Congress and the SEC, was published in the November 2009 issue of the Business Lawyer.

Brad is admitted to the bars of Delaware, New York and New Jersey.  He is a member of the Rodney Inns of Court in Delaware, the Delaware Bar Association, and the American Bar Association.