Following graduation from law school in 1974, Mr. Brosterman joined the Office of the General Counsel of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.) in Washington, D.C. As an attorney in that Office for three years, he represented the S.E.C. as a party and as amicus curiae in appeals before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth and D.C. Circuits and in actions before the United States District Courts.

Mr. Brosterman joined Stroock & Stroock & Lavan L.L.P. in 1977 and has been a partner in the litigation practice group since January 1983, specializing in commodities, securities and general corporate litigation. He has served as counsel for plaintiffs and defendants in actions arising from contracts for the purchase and sale of power, natural gas, crude oil, petroleum products and coal. He has also represented defendants, or groups of defendants, in class and individual actions arising under the federal securities laws, the federal commodities laws, and in actions involving power marketers, traders and generators, securities firms, commodity trading firms, service and manufacturing companies, hedge funds, banks, and other public and private companies and their officers and directors. He acts as principal litigation counsel to several firms which regularly consult with him on a wide range of matters.

Mr. Brosterman has also represented businesses and individuals as defendants and plaintiffs in state and federal court actions involving a wide range of areas of law, in addition to the securities and commodities laws. Mr. Brosterman has appeared on behalf of clients in investigations and proceedings before the S.E.C., the Justice Department, various U.S. Attorneys’ offices, The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, The New York and American Stock Exchanges, The Chicago Board of Options Exchange, the National Association of Securities Dealers, and substantially every commodity exchange in New York and Chicago.

Mr. Brosterman has an active trial practice and has tried jury and non-jury cases in state and federal courts in New York, Florida, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Kansas, Texas and Washington State. He has also tried enforcement proceedings brought by the S.E.C. and the C.F.T.C. In addition, he has appeared on behalf of clients in numerous state and federal courts, including courts located in California, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico, handled appeals before several of the United States Courts of Appeals and in the New York State appellate courts, and represented parties in arbitrations before the International Chamber of Commerce, the American Arbitration Association, the New York and American Stock Exchanges, the National Association of Securities Dealers, and the various U.S. commodity exchanges. Mr. Brosterman regularly lectures on securities, commodities and corporate law topics, and conducts compliance seminars in each of these areas.

Memberships

Committee on Federal Courts, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1981-1983; New York State Bar Association; Federal Bar Council; American Bar Association

Admitted to Practice

New York, 1975

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1976

U.S. Supreme Court, 1982

Education

J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 1974; Editor, Brooklyn Law Review, 1973-1974; Member, Brooklyn Law Review, 1972-1973

B.A., State University of New York, Albany, 1971