Mr. Brandow is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department and heads the firm’s Equity Derivatives Group, which includes over 35 securities and tax lawyers. The group advises a wide variety of market participants—commercial and investment banks, issuers, hedge funds and institutional and individual holders of equity positions—on a complex array of equity-related transactions.

Mr. Brandow has been actively involved in the design of exchangeable securities containing imbedded options or forward contracts on the underlying equities, the development of mandatory and optional convertible securities that are issued in tax- or accounting-driven capital-raising transactions, and the structuring of public and private hedging transactions using collars and variable prepaid forward contracts.

He joined Davis Polk in 1981 and became a partner in 1989.

Mr. Brandow earned bachelor’s degrees from Yale University in 1975 and Oxford University in 1977. He received his J.D. in 1980 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an articles editor for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He clerked for the Honorable Irving R. Kaufman, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, from 1980 to 1981.

He is listed in Chambers Global—Leaders in Their Field (2005-06), PLC’s Cross-Border Finance Handbook (2006), Chambers USA (2005) and Legal Media Group’s Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Capital Markets Lawyers (2005).