Experts
Bradley J. Bondi
Senior Fellow / Legal Studies
bbondi@the-cfs.org
Bradley Bondi is a senior fellow at the Center for Financial Stability, focusing on domestic and international securities and banking regulation, financial markets, corporate governance, and the financial crisis.
Outside his part-time role at the CFS, Mr. Bondi is a partner with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, working in the Washington, D.C. and New York offices. He focuses on securities, corporate, and financial laws (civil and criminal). He represents companies, financial institutions, and individuals at trial and on appeal and before regulatory agencies in a wide range of complex civil and criminal matters, including Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) enforcement actions, securities and financial litigation, commercial litigation, regulatory proceedings, and international disputes. In addition, he represents clients in grand jury investigations, congressional inquiries, and internal investigations. In a counseling role, he advises boards of directors, audit committees, and senior management of public companies and financial institutions on matters of corporate governance, securities and financial regulation, insider trading law, regulatory compliance under the Dodd-Frank Act, and crisis management.
Prior to joining Cadwalader, Mr. Bondi was a member of the executive staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, serving as counsel to SEC Commissioners Troy Paredes and Paul Atkins for enforcement actions and regulatory rulemaking. He routinely advised on SEC enforcement matters and regularly interacted with SEC Enforcement staff in the home and regional offices. He also served on the steering committee for the SEC’s “Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2010-2015” and on several working groups related to enforcement initiatives. While at the SEC, Mr. Bondi was detailed to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission(“FCIC”), a bipartisan commission established by Congress to investigate the causes of the financial crisis, where he served as deputy general counsel and assistant director. In that role, he led one of the three FCIC investigative teams. Mr. Bondi also served briefly as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for criminal prosecutions in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Before his government service commenced, Mr. Bondi was a litigation partner at Kirkland and Ellis LLP and an associate at Williams and Connolly LLP, where he was involved in high-profile criminal trials and civil litigation.
In addition to maintaining an active law practice, Mr. Bondi serves as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and George Mason University School of Law where he teaches classes on securities law and the SEC. He served two, three-year terms as an elected member of the steering committee for the Corporation Finance and Securities Law Section of the D.C. Bar. He is actively involved in international regulatory issues as a member of the Pallanza Group, an annual gathering of U.S. and European leaders hosted by the Istituto Bruno Leoni of Milan, Italy.
Mr. Bondi earned his LL.M (with distinction) in Securities and Financial Regulation from Georgetown University Law Center where he was honored with the Thomas Bradbury Chetwood, S.J. Prize for the most distinguished academic record. He earned his J.D. (with high honors, Order of the Coif), M.B.A. (Finance and Management), and B.S. (with highest honors) from the University of Florida. Following law school, Mr. Bondi clerked for the Honorable Edward E. Carnes, Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Recent Academic Work:
Facilitating Economic Recovery and Sustainable Growth through Reform of the Securities Class-Action System: Exploring Arbitration as an Alternative to Litigation
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy
Don’t Tread On Me: Has the United States Government’s Quest for Customer Records from UBS Sounded the Death Knell for Swiss Bank Secrecy Laws?
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
Dangerous Liaisons: Collective Scienter in SEC Enforcement Actions
New York University Journal of Law and Business
Evaluating the Mission: A Critical Review of the History and Evolution of the SEC Enforcement Program (co-authored with Paul S. Atkins)
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
Securities Arbitrations Involving Mortgage-Backed Securities and Collateralized Mortgage Obligations: Suitable for Unsuitability Claims?
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
No Secrets Allowed: Congress’s Treatment and Mistreatment of the Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work-Product Protection in Congressional Investigations and Contempt Proceedings
Journal of Law & Politics
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