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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).
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.
Brian has been recognized as a leading lawyer in Derivatives and Structured Products by Legal 500 USA and is ranked Tier 2 for Capital Markets: Structured Products in Chambers USA and the Chambers Global Guide. In the Chambers USA 2023 edition, clients note that Brian is, “respected for his ability and depth of knowledge” and “valued and respected by clients for his effective and commercial approach.” In 2024, Brian was recognized by Lawdragon as one of the “500 Leading Dealmakers in America.”
Brian received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Santa Clara University, and his J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center. He speaks Spanish and has studied and worked in Latin America. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
