Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Finance

Brian Foster is co-head of Cadwalader’s Fund Finance Group. 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).

Prior to joining Cadwalader, Brian worked at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in connection with the unwinding of its derivatives book in bankruptcy. He also worked as a structurer in Global Fund Derivatives at Deutsche Bank, where he arranged fund finance transactions and fund-linked structured product transactions.

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude

B.A., Santa Clara University, magna cum laude