Mr. Altschuler is a partner in Weil’s Litigation Department and Securities Litigation practice group in New York City. He has extensive experience litigating corporate, securities, and complex business matters at the trial and appellate levels in state and federal jurisdictions across the US. Mr. Altschuler’s practice includes defense of shareholder derivative actions, federal and state securities class actions, commercial litigation and arbitrations, mergers and acquisitions, and bankruptcy-related litigation, as well as counseling boards of directors with respect to corporate governance, business judgment, and regulatory and related issues.
Mr. Altschuler has successfully litigated cases relating to multi-billion dollar buyouts, investment stakes, tender offers and contests for corporate control, breach of fiduciary duty, financial and accounting fraud, insider trading, contests for company books and records, stock option “backdating,” and many of the largest corporate bankruptcies in history. Mr. Altschuler has represented such clients as Archstone, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Staples, Inc., The Walt Disney Company, Panasonic, Tyco International Ltd., Enron, Vivendi, The Estée Lauder Companies, Brookfield Asset Management, Inc., outside directors of Regis Corp., Global Crossing, Thomas H. Lee Partners, LP, Lee Equity Partners, Providence Equity, Perry Capital, and Berkshire Partners.
Mr. Altschuler is a member of the Board of Advisors of the University of Delaware Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance. He has lectured on corporate governance and securities topics at The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management, and also has been a speaker at the American Bar Association, Practicing Law Institute, New York State Bar Association Business Law Section Securities Regulation Committee, Audit Committee Institute Issues Conference, and private client presentations.
Mr. Altschuler is the author of No Second Bite at the Apple for Allergan Plaintiffs, Delaware Business Court Insider (2013); Will Delaware Give Derivative Plaintiffs a Second Bite of the Apple?, Delaware Business Court Insider (2012); and a co-author of Fiduciary Duties Under U.S. Law, American Bar Association, International Developments Sub-Committee on Corporate Governance (2011); How to Win in Delaware – A “Top Ten,” Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division (2008); and Corporate Social Responsibility for Human Rights: Comments on the UN Special Representative’s Report Entitled “Protect, Respect and Remedy: a Framework for Business and Human Rights” (2008).
Since 2001, Mr. Altschuler has served as Pro Bono General Counsel to the Council of Senior Centers and Services of New York City, Inc. (CSCS), which awarded him the 2011 Good Citizen Award for his “exemplary efforts in assisting CSCS navigate the complexities of legal issues as Pro Bono General Counsel since 2001.” Mr. Altschuler also has been honored by Lawyers Alliance for New York as the recipient of its Award for Pro Bono Leadership (2009) and Cornerstone Award (2004). In 2012, he was recognized by Weil as a “Super Legend” for his extensive pro bono service during the last decade.
Before joining Weil in 1999, Mr. Altschuler served as Judicial Clerk to The Honorable E. Norman Veasey, former Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court and current Senior Partner at Weil, and as Legislative Correspondent to The Honorable Michael N. Castle, former Delaware Governor and US Congressman. Mr. Altschuler is a 1994 graduate of Trinity College (with honors) and received his JD from Georgetown University Law Center in 1998. He is a member of the bars of New York and Delaware.