Ronald Bradford ("Brad") Malt (born August 1, 1954) is a prominent corporate lawyer and the former chairman of

Ropes & Gray LLP Ropes & Gray LLP is a global law firm with 13 offices located in the United States, Asia and Europe. The firm has more than 1,500 lawyers and professionals worldwide, and its clients include corporations and financial institutions, government agen ...

, whose practice focused on private equity transactions.

Early life and education

Ronald Bradford Malt was born in 1954 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the son of Geraldine and

Ronald A. Malt Ronald A. Malt (November 12, 1931 – October 5, 2002) was an American clinical surgeon and teacher at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School for over 40 years. Born in Pittsburgh, Malt attended Washington University and Ha ...

. Malt graduated from

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher ...

(1976) with a degree in applied mathematics and from

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class ...

(1979).

Career

Malt joined

in 1979. He became a member of the firm's management committee in 1993 and has served as Chair of the firm from 2004 through 2019 . Malt is a corporate lawyer who was founder of the private equity practice at Ropes & Gray. He has been called "one of the top lawyers in the country for handling leveraged buyouts and private equity deals." In 2003, when

Mitt Romney Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American politician, businessman, and lawyer serving as the junior United States senator from Utah since January 2019, succeeding Orrin Hatch. He served as the 70th governor of Massachusett ...

was elected Governor of Massachusetts, Malt became trustee of the

blind trust A blind trust is a trust in which the trust beneficiaries have no knowledge of the holdings of the trust, and no right to intervene in their handling. In a blind trust, the trustees ( fiduciaries, or those who have been given power of attorney) ...

s holding Governor Romney's assets. He continued to serve as sole trustee of the trusts during Governor Romney's presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.

References

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