Experience
Partner - Insurance Transactions & Regulatory Practice Group
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP
October 2007 – Present
As a senior partner in the firm's Insurance Transactions & Regulatory Practice Group, and a member of the Firm's Corporate, Capital Markets and Health Care Practice Groups, Brian focuses on corporate, M&A, corporate and structured finance and other transactional, and regulatory matters for corporate clients in the insurance, financial services and health care industries. His clients include insurance companies, insurance holding companies, managing general agents and insurance agencies, third party and claims administrators, banks and other financial institutions, investment banks and reinsurance companies. 

Representative Experience
•Anti-Money Laundering/Office of Foreign Asset Control compliance
•Bank insurance transactions, financial services modernization and CFPB
•Blockchain technology
•Captive insurance companies
•Consumer lending
•Corporate, transactional and business law 
•Corporate finance, venture capital, private equity and insurance structured finance transactions
•The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
•Extended warranties and service contracts
•Fintech
•Health care and health insurance
•Insurance analytics and big data
•Insurance company and product taxation
•Insurance linked securities, securitizations and related insurance capital markets and structured finance transactions
•Insurance telematics usage-based insurance (UBI)
•Insuretech
•Internet, electronic commerce, electronic signatures and records, electronic payments and other technology aspects of insurance, financial services and healthcare
•Life insurance
•Life settlements
•Long term care insurance
•Mergers and acquisitions of insurance companies (life & health and property & casualty) and agencies, third party administrators, financial services
•Multi-state insurance regulation and administrative law 
•Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
•Privacy and security
•Property and casualty insurance
•Reinsurance
•Smart contracts
•Social media
•Telemarketing compliance

Partner - Corporate & Regulatory Insurance Group
Lord, Bissell & Brook
August 2001 – October 2007 (6 years 3 months)
Greater Atlanta Area

Partner - Insurance & Reinsurance Group
Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP
May 1995 – August 2001 (6 years 4 months)
Greater Atlanta Area

Adjunct Professor of Risk Management
Georgia State University, Risk Management and Insurance Dept
1993 – 1997 (4 years)
Atlanta, GA

Partner - Corporate & Regulatory Insurance Group
Neely & Player
December 1994 – May 1995 (6 months)
Greater Atlanta Area

Associate - Corporate & Regulatory Insurance Group
Neely & Player
September 1987 – December 1994 (7 years 4 months)
Greater Atlanta Area 	

Education
The Ohio State University
Doctor of Law (JD), Law
1984 – 1987

Auburn University
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Accounting, Summa Cum Laude
1980 – 1984
Activities and Societies: Powerlifting Team

Emory University
Master's degree, Tax Law/Taxation
1989 – 1992

Organizations
American Bankers Insurance Association (ABIA)
Co-Chair, Compliance and Risk Management Best Practices Panel
2011 – 2013
Association of Life Insurance Counsel (ALIC)
Starting 2000
European Life Settlement Association (ELSA)
Member, Executive Committee
Federation of Regulatory Counsel (FORC), State of Georgia
Starting 2001
Georgia State University Risk Management Foundation
Board Member
Starting 2011
Institute of Warranty Chain Management
Legislation & Public Policy Committee Member
2011 – 2013
Life Insurance Direct Marketing Association (LIDMA)
Board of Directors
Starting 2006
Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA)
Board of Directors 2002 - 2013
National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)
Industry Participant
Starting 1989
Honors & Awards
100 Most Powerful People in the Insurance Industry - North America
2002 - 2010
Ten Most Influential People in Life Settlements
Life Settlement Review
2008 - 2010
The International Who's Who of Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers
2010
The Legal 500 - United States
2008
Acknowledged for accomplishments in Insurance Practice