Some of Brian’s recent experience includes working on Weil teams representing:
- Brookfield Asset Management and certain of its affiliates in a stockholder class and derivative action in the Delaware Court of Chancery arising out of Brookfield Renewable’s acquisition of TerraForm Power.
- Dun & Bradstreet and its directors and officers in a Delaware Court of Chancery stockholder class action arising out of its $7.7 billion sale to Clearlake Capital Group.
- The Kroger Company and its directors and a senior officer in stockholder derivative litigation in Ohio state court.
- lululemon athletica and its senior officers and directors in a securities class action and stockholder derivative actions.
- Mudrick Capital in Delaware Court of Chancery litigation arising out of Mudrick Capital Acquisition Corporation’s (a SPAC sponsored by Mudrick Capital) acquisition of substantially all of Hycroft Mining Corporation’s assets.
- Pilgrim’s Pride in a securities class action related to alleged industry-wide price fixing.
- Public companies and their boards on disclosure obligations and stockholder demands related to pending M&A transactions.
Brian maintains an active pro bono practice, including work for the Anti-Defamation League, the Innocence Project, Lubavitch of Cambridge, and the American Folk Art Museum.
He is also a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Securities Litigation Committee.
Brian received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Butler Fellow, a James Kent Scholar, and the Senior Notes Editor of the Columbia Business Law Review. During law school, he served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Diane Gujarati of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He earned his B.A., with highest distinction, from the University of Michigan, where he served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Dena E. Douglas of the New York State Supreme Court, Kings County.