practice areas
honors + affiliations
Listed, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2009–2011)
Listed, Elite Leading Lawyers List for M&A, Legal 500 United States (2011)
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association
Member, Philadelphia Bar Association - Business Law Section
Member, Board of Directors of the Institute for Law and Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Former Chair, Philadelphia Bar Association - Business Law Section, Mergers & Acquisitions Committee
bar admissions
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
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1701 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2921
Phone: 215.963.4829
Fax: 215.963.5001
Richard B. Aldridge is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Transactions Practice and serves as co-chair of the Group's Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. Mr. Aldridge counsels clients in a wide range of complex business law matters, with an emphasis on both public and private company merger and acquisition transactions. He regularly advises clients with respect to takeover preparedness matters, corporate governance issues and obligations under securities laws, particularly in connection with acquisitions of publicly and privately held companies and public and private securities offerings, in addition to other general corporate matters.
Mr. Aldridge represents clients in a variety of fields, including the financial services, energy, telecommunications, technology, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and electric utility industries.
Mr. Aldridge is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania.
education
- University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1993, J.D.
- Duke University, 1989, A.B.

