Brandon M. Hammer’s practice focuses on a broad range of creditors’ rights, netting, financial regulatory, bankruptcy, and market infrastructure issues.
His clients include U.S. and non-U.S. financial institutions, clearinghouses, and other financial market utilities, sovereigns, 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 regarding close-out netting 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 regulatory agencies and self-regulatory organizations.
Brandon joined the firm in 2014.
Publications
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CFTC Finalizes Swap Dealer Capital and Financial Reporting Rules
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CFTC Proposes Comprehensive Revision of FCM and DCO Insolvency Rules
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SEC Finalizes Security-Based Swap Capital, Margin, and Segregation Requirements
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The Potential Implication of the Supreme Court’s Holding in Merit Management
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Federal Reserve Board Proposes to Expand Netting Protections of FDICIA to Additional Institutions
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District Court Clarifies Application of Anti-Avoidance Safe Harbor
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CFTC Adopts Loan-Related Swap Exclusion from De Minimis Exception
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CFTC Adopts Permanent $8 Billion Swap Dealer De Minimis Threshold
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CFTC Proposes Amendments to Swap Dealer De Minimis Exception
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SDNY Rules on Scope of Section 560 Safe Harbor in Lehman Bankruptcy