Glen Barrentine is special counsel in the Securities and Financial Institutions Regulation Department in the New York office of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP. Mr. Barrentine's practice focuses broadly on legal and regulatory matters affecting brokerdealers and other financial institutions. His background includes extensive experience involving the regulatory inspection and examination process, responding to SRO and SEC regulatory inquiries, conducting internal investigations and compliance reviews, and drafting policies and procedures to ensure compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

Mr. Barrentine was formerly the Chief Regulatory Officer of the American Stock Exchange. While at the Amex, he supervised the Exchange's enforcement, options and equities surveillance and other regulatory programs. He also managed the Exchange's response to multiple SEC inspections and undertook a comprehensive review of Amex’s existing regulatory program, resulting in significant changes to its structure, procedures, and surveillance routines.

Before joining the Amex, Mr. Barrentine was an Assistant General Counsel with Bank of America, where he was the principal attorney for compliance and regulatory issues affecting the Bank's institutional brokerage firm, Banc of America Securities. Mr. Barrentine also supported several business units within Banc of America Securities including Clearing, Prime Brokerage, and Private Client Services.

He also previously served at the Securities and Exchange Commission as an Assistant Director with the Commission's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, and before that with the Division of Market Regulation. He participated in the Division of Market Regulation's administration of the net capital, customer protection and other financial responsibility rules and the review and approval of new and amended SRO rules.

He is the author of Equity-Indexed Annuities: Regulatory Trouble for the Unwary, The Review of Securities and Commodities Regulation, Vol. 39, No. 6 (2006) (with Thomas Kuczajda).

Mr. Barrentine earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston University School of Law and a B.A. from St. John’s College in New Mexico. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York.