Brandon M Hammer

Practice Areas

Brandon M. Hammer’s practice focuses on a broad range of creditors’ rights, netting, financial regulatory, digital assets, bankruptcy, and market infrastructure issues.

His clients include U.S. and non-U.S. financial institutions, clearinghouses, exchanges, custodians, investment managers, sovereigns, market disrupters and end users. He is frequently counsel to leading financial market trade associations and ad hoc coalitions on major industry initiatives and industry-standard opinions.

He regularly advises clients on close-out netting and custodial rights under a variety of different U.S. insolvency regimes, including the Bankruptcy Code, the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, the Securities Investor Protection Act, the New York Banking Law, and the Orderly Liquidation Authority title of the Dodd-Frank Act, and represents clients before federal and state regulatory agencies and self-regulatory organizations.

Career

Brandon joined the firm in 2014. J.D., magna cum laude, Harvard Law School (2013); B.A., summa cum laude, Columbia University (2010).

Professional Memberships

Member, New York Bar.