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Mr James Frazier

+1 212 504 6963 [email protected]

Work Department

Financial Services

Position

Jamie Frazier, co-chair of the Financial Services Group, focuses his practice in the area of ERISA and employee benefits. A large part of his practice is devoted to advising clients with respect to the application of ERISA’s fiduciary standards and prohibited transaction provisions to their activities in transactional and regulatory matters.

Jamie regularly advises financial services firms with respect to the structuring of investment vehicles and other investment products, including complex structured products and derivatives, offered to employee benefit plans and entities deemed to hold the assets of such plans. He routinely advises financial services firms in connection with the provision of services, such as investment management and brokerage services, to such plans or entities. Jamie also advises clients regarding issues that arise under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code in the context of corporate transactions. He also routinely represents clients before the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration.

Education

LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center, with distinction

J.D., University of Arkansas, School of Law, cum laude

B.A., University of North Carolina