- Brant Imperatore
Brant D. Imperatore is an American lawyer and lobbyist. He was formerly Counsel, House Financial Services Committee, 2000 - 2002. 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 theUniversity of Virginia , he most recently served onCapitol Hill as Counsel on theHouse Committee on Financial Services in the 107th Congress for then-House Committee ChairmanMichael G. Oxley and then-House Subcommittee ChairmanRichard H. Baker .Imperatore first 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 Baker.“At the end of the 106th Congress, he played a key role in advocating and organizing the transfer of jurisdiction over securities and insurance from the Committee on Commerce to the newly formed Committee on Financial Services. While on Committee staff, he worked on a broad range of issues affecting the financial markets, including the
Commodities Futures Modernization Act , theTerrorism Risk Protection Act , GSE reform, securities analyst conflicts of interest, and merchant banking regulatory relief.”Professional Background
Prior to working on
Capitol Hill , he practiced for three years in the marine and energy insurance litigation group of theNew Orleans law firm, Frilot, Partridge, Kohnke & Clements. He also volunteered as part of theGeorge W. Bush legal team inFlorida in November 2000 (Victory 2000).Barbour, Griffith & Rogers, LLC
He left O'Connor & Hannan (a Washington, D.C. law firm), and moved his practice to Barbour, Griffith & Rogers, 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.
Personal
Of Italian and Polish extraction, Brant Imperatore currently resides in
McLean, Virginia with his wife.One of his sisters, Leah Imperatore, is married to
Chris Albright ,New England Revolution soccer player; making the men brothers-in-law. Fact|date=October 2007Membership/Affiliations
*Member, Louisiana State Bar Association
*Member, District of Columbia Bar AssociationLinks
*http://www.bgrdc.com/bios.asp
*http://www.penncharter.com/content/alumni/senioraward.asp
*http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34515-2004Feb11?language=printer
*http://www.pli.edu/product/bio.asp?fid=PE00000000009020
*http://www.oconnorhannan.com/attimperatore.htm
*http://www.isda.org/conf/conf-09-26-07.html
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