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Andrew S. Baer

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Andrew S. Baer

Counsel
Financial Institutions
Washington DC

Advises banks and other financial institutions on a wide range of regulatory, compliance, transactional, governance and enforcement matters

Andy advises banks and other financial institutions on a wide range of regulatory, compliance, transactional, governance and enforcement matters.

For over 12 years, Andy was a managing director at Morgan Stanley, where he led the firm’s bank regulatory legal function. In that role, he advised all business segments (institutional securities, wealth management and investment management) and geographies on the application of U.S. banking laws and interactions with federal banking agencies. He also served as general counsel of Morgan Stanley Bank. Andy was previously counsel in the Legal Division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an attorney-adviser in the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Trading and Markets.

Education

J.D., University of Michigan Law School
A.B., Brown University

Prior experience

  • Managing Director and Head of Bank Regulatory Legal, Morgan Stanley, 2012-2025
  • Special Counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell, 2007-2012
  • Counsel, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1999-2007
  • Attorney-Adviser, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 1996-1999

Qualifications and admissions

  • District of Columbia
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