Waylon Bryson

• Advised investment management boutiques and legacy private banking feeder business.
• Structured cross-border asset management to meet international regulatory requirements.
• Supported an international compliance investigation on a complex tax matter.

Waylon Bryson is a senior associate in the Investment Funds Group. Waylon’s practice includes all aspects of fund formation, investment advisory, transactional, regulatory compliance, and enforcement matters. He handles complex corporate and regulatory enforcement matters relating to international, national, and small-firm broker-dealers, investment advisers, and their agents and affiliates.

Waylon is recognized in the 2023 and 2024 editions of The Best Lawyers in America^® “Ones to Watch” in the Banking and Finance Law category.

Before joining the firm, Waylon was a vice president and counsel for a global investment and financial services firm, where he advised on various matters related to the bank’s asset management and private banking divisions.

Languages

• Japanese

Bar Admissions

• New York
• North Carolina

Education

• Vanderbilt University (J.D., 2014)
• Wayne State University (B.A., 2007)