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Mr Brian Foster

Work Department
Finance
Position
Brian Foster is a partner in Cadwalader’s Finance Practice and a member of Cadwalader’s market leading fund finance team. Brian focuses on financing, derivatives and structured products transactions involving financial institutions and investment funds. His experience covers a broad range of derivatives (including OTC trades, structured notes, options, forwards and swaps, with particular focus on equity- and fund-linked derivatives) and financing arrangements (including secondaries financing, fund of hedge fund and single manager hedge fund leverage, management company loans, dividend recapitalizations, NAV facilities, subscription lines, hybrid transactions, preferred share issuances, collateralized fund obligations, margin loans, securities lending and repo facilities and prime brokerage arrangements).
Education
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude
B.A., Santa Clara University, magna cum laude
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
(Leading partners)Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP‘s derivatives and structured products practice is a key point of contact for banks, investors, hedge funds, commodity pools, private equity funds, issuers and many other actors for expertise in the full range of asset classes and product types. The team fields heteregenous OTC derivative experience, having previously operated in caps, floors, forwards, swaps, and other options linked to equity, currency, interest rate, income, and other underlying asset classes. Ivan Loncar is a fields a strong track record in unfunded derivatives, such as interest rate and total return swaps, along with funded derivatives such as credit linked notes. He co-heads the team with Lary Stromfeld , who has extensive experience in credit derivatives, swaps and other transactions, along with a strong track record in ISDA and Dodd-Frank regulatory queries. Jed Miller is turned to by clients for his risk transfer expertise. Brian Foster’s practice encompasses OTC trades, forwards, swaps and equity derivatives, while Peter Malyshev is highly active in the cross-border OTC derivative transaction space, including including those involving fintech and digital assets. All lawyers mentioned are in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners United States > Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Structured finance: derivatives and structured products United States > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Tax > Financial products
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Tax > International tax
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: plaintiff
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism