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Brian G. Barrett

Partner

Brian advises (re)insurers, banks, broker-dealers, fintech companies and pension sponsors on transactional, regulatory and compliance matters.

With more than 25 years of experience as a lawyer and investment banker, Brian’s transactional practice includes assisting:

  • Pension sponsors and (re)insurers in connection with pension risk transfer transactions, including buyouts/liftouts, longevity swaps and reinsurance of annuity blocks;
  • Financial-technology companies with respect to charter and state licensing and examination matters and banks, payment processors and payroll processors in connection with credit/debit prepaid cards, ACH transfers and mobile payments;
  • Issuers, underwriters, sponsors and asset managers in connection with ILS securitizations, CLOs and sidecars;
  • Life and non-life (re)insurers in connection with collateralized reinsurance transactions, reserve financing structures and RBC-driven transactions;
  • Lenders and borrowers in connection with syndicated and bilateral loan and LoC facilities and loan warehouse facilities; and
  • Dealers and end-users on derivatives and margin documentation, prime brokerage agreements and repo, securities lending and collateral management transactions.

Brian’s regulatory advisory work extends to insurance, banking and money transmitter laws, the Dodd-Frank Act, the National Bank Act, the Bank Holding Company Act, the FDIA, the Insurance Holding Company System Regulatory Act, U.S. securities laws, the Basel 3 risk-based and leverage capital rules, NAIC’s RBC rules, the Insurers Rehabilitation and Liquidation Act, BSA/AML and OFAC rules, federal and state privacy rules (including GLB restrictions), FCRA, EFTA and Regulation E, and Durbin/Regulation II.

Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland (US), Brian served as Vice President for Global Liquidity Products at Goldman Sachs in New York, where he developed products and executed transactions in which banks, insurance companies, catastrophe bond issuers, money market funds and pensions deployed liquidity.

  • Represented IGM Financial, one of Canada's largest diversified wealth and asset management companies, in its purchase of an approximately 20.5 percent equity interest in Rockefeller Capital Management, for consideration of approximately $622 million.
  • Represented Empower in its acquisition of Prudential’s retirement plan business for a total transaction value of $3.55 billion.
  • Represented a leading global insurer with respect to the US legal and regulatory issues presented by a venture-capital backed subsidiary engaged in the business of providing short-term installment loans to US employees.
  • Advised a leading global insurer on the roll-out of a student debt refinancing and advisory product offered on its electronic retirement services platform by a marketplace lender backed by venture capital investors.

A Survey of the Different Licensing and Chartering Options for FinTechs 
May 1, 2018
2018 ACI Fintech and Emerging Payments Conference

Webcast: De-Risky Business: Legal and Practical Issues in Pension Settlements 
November 12, 2014
CLE Presentation

  • Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of capital markets: equity offerings (2015) and fintech (2021-2023)
  • Honored with BTI Consulting Group's Client Service Award for delivering unsurpassed client service (2016-2017)
  • New York
  • J.D., Columbia University School of Law,

    Stone Scholar 1987-1989

  • B.A., summa cum laude, Yale College
Brian Barrett

Partner

Brian Barrett

Partner

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