Melvin (Mel) A. Brosterman
Senior Counsel Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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An accomplished litigator, Melvin Brosterman represents trading firms, banks, energy companies, and other public and private companies in a range of disputes. Mel regularly appears for clients in investigations and proceedings before the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and various exchanges and other self-regulatory organizations. He has also appeared before several of the United States Courts of Appeals and the New York State appellate courts.
Mel has an active trial practice and has tried dozens of jury and non-jury cases in state and federal courts nationwide, and has represented parties in arbitrations before domestic and international tribunals. He has successfully advocated for both plaintiffs and defendants in numerous disputes, including actions arising from the purchase and sale of securities, physical commodities, and derivatives. Additionally, he has tried enforcement proceedings brought by the SEC and the CFTC.
Mel began his career in the Office of the General Counsel of the SEC. During that time, he represented the SEC in appeals and as amicus curiae 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.
Mel regularly lectures on securities, commodities and corporate law topics, and conducts compliance seminars in each of these areas.
Credentials
- J.D., Brooklyn Law School, Editor, Brooklyn Law Review
- B.A., State University of New York at Albany
- New York
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- American Bar Association