Brandon M Hammer
FinTech Guide 2024
Band 4 : FinTech Legal: Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies
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About
Provided by Brandon M Hammer
Practice Areas
Brandon M. Hammer’s practice focuses on a broad range of financial regulatory, market infrastructure, creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, digital asset, and netting issues.
His clients include financial institutions, clearinghouses, asset managers, hedge funds, FinTech firms, 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.
Clients regularly turn to Brandon to help them address many of their highest stakes issues, including fundamental market changes and financial distress scenarios. Brandon is a go-to counselor on complex issues that span multiple practice areas and disciplines. His areas of expertise include the application of regulatory, commercial law, and bankruptcy rules to digital assets; close-out netting rights under a variety of different insolvency regimes; derivatives and securities regulatory matters; and the Uniform Commercial Code.
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.
Chambers Review
FinTech
Brandon Hammer is a regulatory expert in the derivatives market, and is particularly well regarded for bankruptcy matters. Hammer has additional capabilities in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a specific focus on digital assets.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Brandon is efficient, super sharp and quick to understand the underlying technology and business considerations. He is also always responsive."
"Brandon is an excellent lawyer and adviser. He has a comprehensive understanding of financial regulation, commercial law, and bankruptcy issues, and also has a keen sense of how these issues can affect businesses in practice. Brandon provides expert guidance on technical questions of law as well as higher-level strategic decisions."
"Brandon is extremely responsive, thoughtful and insightful. He provides clear practical answers and I trust Brandon's judgement immensely."
"Brandon is efficient, super sharp and quick to understand the underlying technology and business considerations. He is also always responsive."
"Brandon is an excellent lawyer and adviser. He has a comprehensive understanding of financial regulation, commercial law, and bankruptcy issues, and also has a keen sense of how these issues can affect businesses in practice. Brandon provides expert guidance on technical questions of law as well as higher-level strategic decisions."
"Brandon is extremely responsive, thoughtful and insightful. He provides clear practical answers and I trust Brandon's judgement immensely."