Bio

Richard Brand is co-chairman of Cadwalader's Corporate Group and a member of the firm's Management Committee. Richard is widely recognized as a leading advisor to public companies, hedge funds, private equity firms and investment banks. His experience includes mergers and acquisitions, takeover preparedness and defense, shareholder activism and defense, general corporate advisory work and securities offerings. Richard also advises clients on complex transactions involving distressed companies and assets, including mergers, acquisitions, investments and financings, as well as restructurings. Before joining Cadwalader, Brand was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and, previously, an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and a staff writer for The Miami Herald. Richard has been described by The American Lawyer as "a takeover and defense specialist" who is "no stranger to billion-dollar deals" and by Chambers USA as “an extremely talented and bright” practitioner who is “very creative and tailors his advice to what is needed for the situation.” He has been recognized in the New York edition of Super Lawyers consistently since 2011 for his corporate practice, was named a leading M&A practitioner by Who’s Who Legal from 2017 to 2022, and was recognized by Lawdragon as one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” in each year from 2017 to 2023 and as one of the “500 Leading Dealmakers in America” in 2021 and 2022. Richard serves on the advisory boards of Harvard Law School's Program on Corporate Governance and of New York University’s Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance, and was recognized in 2016 by Columbia Law School’s Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership as a “Rising Star of Corporate Governance.” He holds a B.A. from Princeton University and received his J.D., cum laude, from New York University.