Winthrop Brown is a partner in the Washington, DC office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and a member of the firm’s Leveraged Finance Group.
Primary Focus & Experience
Mr. Brown concentrates on US regulatory issues affecting foreign and US commercial banks, bank holding companies, broker-dealers, investment advisers and their affiliates. He has over 30 years of experience in advising leading banking organizations on a wide range of matters involving complex structured finance transactions, novel financial products and services, acquisitions of and non-controlling investments in banking institutions, bank and broker-dealer formations and changes in control, and ongoing compliance with US banking and securities laws and regulations, including with the recently enacted Dodd-Frank Act.
Recognition & Accomplishments
Mr. Brown frequently lectures and participates in panel discussions and seminars on these issues. He also has been active in, and served on the boards of, various local nonprofit organizations. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar. Before joining Milbank, Mr. Brown was partner and chair of the financial institutions practice group at Shaw Pittman, resident in its Washington, DC office. Mr. Brown is an adjunct professor at the Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Mr. Brown received his Juris Doctorate from the George Washington University School of Law in 1974 where he was a member of the Order of the Coif. He also received a Masters of Science degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1971 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University in 1970.