Brant Imperatore

Brant D. Imperatore is an American lawyer and lobbyist. He was formerly Counsel, House Financial Services Committee, 2000-02. He is currently with the Washington, D.C. lobby shop, BGR Holding, LLC.
Experience on Capitol Hill
A graduate of Tulane University's School of Law and the University of Virginia, he most recently served on Capitol Hill as Counsel on the House Committee on Financial Services in the 107th Congress for then-House Committee Chairman Michael G. Oxley and then-House Subcommittee Chairman Richard H. Baker.
Imperatore came to Capitol Hill in 2000 as Senior Counsel to the United States House Banking Subcommittee/House Banking Committee on Capital Markets, Securities & Government Sponsored Enterprises. He served as legal and policy advisor to Subcommittee Chairman Richard H. Baker.
Professional Background
Prior to working on Capitol Hill, he practiced for three years in the New Orleans law firm of Frilot, Partridge, Kohnke & Clements. He was a volunteer for the Bush legal team during the contested ballot counting in Florida that marked the 2000 presidential election, which Mr. Bush eventually won with a ruling from the United States Supreme Court.
Imperatore frequently appears as an expert commentator on policy and market matters.
Barbour, Griffith & Rogers, LLC
He left (a Washington, D.C. law firm), and moved his practice to [http://www.bgrdc.com/bios.asp Barbour, Griffith & Rogers (BGR)], bringing FHL Bank of Dallas, the Coalition of Community Bankers and the Gray Insurance Co. with him as clients. At Barbour, Griffith, Imperatore heads a specialty practice comprising financial services issues at BGR.
Imperatore is one of two lead lobbyists for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, which oversees the over-the-counter derivatives industry. This places him at the center of one of the most critical legislative areas in the financial services arena for Congress in the year 2010: regulating the currently unregulated market for OTC derivatives.
Family
Of Italian and Polish extraction, Brant Imperatore currently resides in McLean, Virginia with his wife and two children. One of his sisters, Leah Imperatore, is married to Chris Albright, New York Red Bulls soccer player, which makes the men brothers-in-law.
Membership/Affiliations
*Member, Louisiana State Bar Association
*Member, District of Columbia Bar Association

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