Brandon M Hammer
FinTech Guide 2025
Band 3 : 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 extremely responsive, extremely sophisticated in his thinking/analysis, and has a good sense of the practical versus the theoretical."
"Brandon is exceptional, a go-to for issues at the intersection of TradFi and FinTech."
"Brandon is an exceptional lawyer with a unique understanding of financial regulatory regimes, insolvency regimes and practices, and the realities of complex financial transactions and operations."
"Brandon is extremely responsive, extremely sophisticated in his thinking/analysis, and has a good sense of the practical versus the theoretical."
"Brandon is exceptional, a go-to for issues at the intersection of TradFi and FinTech."
"Brandon is an exceptional lawyer with a unique understanding of financial regulatory regimes, insolvency regimes and practices, and the realities of complex financial transactions and operations."