A. Arnold Gershon

Partner | New York, NY

Biography

A. Arnold Gershon, a partner in Barrack, Rodos & Bacine’s New York office, focuses his practice on representing plaintiffs in class and individual actions under the federal securities laws, state corporations laws, and similar matters in state and federal courts throughout the United States for more than 40 years.   He is an experienced civil litigator and has helped to establish important statdards in shareholder derivative actions, acontributed to the establishment of the important standards for corporate disclosures related to executive compensation, and has contributed to the jurisprudence of class action settlements in federal courts.

 

Notable Cases

  • Public Employees’ Retirement System of Mississippi v. Leonard S. Schleifer, et al. (Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Derivative Case), No. 656813/2017, Part 39 (N.Y. Supreme Ct.), which resulted in significant reductions in compensation over five years to its non-employee directors and the chairman of its board, changes to rules for voting on compensation and additional governance reforms concerning director compensation.
  • Resnick v. Occidental Petroleum, et al., Case No. 10-cv-00390, before the Honorable Robert Kelly (sitting by designation) in the District of Delaware, which resulted in corporate governance and excessive excutive compensation reforms at the company.

Education

  • New York University
    New York, NY | L.L.M. 1966)
  • Emory University School of Law
    Atlanta, GA | L.L.B. 1964
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
    Atlanta GA | B.S. 1962

Admissions

  • New York, 1966
  • Georgia, 1964 (Emeritus)
  • Unites States Supreme Court
  • United States Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • United States District Court for the Western District of New York