Bryan Wells is a partner in Shutts & Bowen's Financial Services Practice Group in the Miami office. He serves as an Adjunct Professor of Banking Law at the University of Miami School of Law. His practice is focused on regulatory, transactional and corporate matters involving a wide range of domestic and international financial services firms and businesses, including banks, broker-dealers and investment advisory firms. Mr. Wells has extensive experience in mergers, acquisitions, establishments and expansions of financial institutions and in structuring and documenting a wide range of investment products and services. He also provides corporate counsel to a number of local and regional construction, real estate and technology companies. Mr. Wells is a frequent speaker on issues of relevance to the financial services industry.
Prior to joining Shutts & Bowen, Mr. Wells was law clerk to United States District Court Judge William M. Hoeveler.
Publications
- SEC Interim Final Rules Implementing the Securities Activities “Push Out” Provisions of the GLBA, with Bowman Brown and William McCullough, Banking and Financial Services Policy Report (July 2001).
- The Big Push in Private Banking Law: Implications of the “Push Out” Provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, with Bowman Brown, Latin Finance Magazine (May 2001).
- Making the Most of International Private Banking: Opportunities and Challenges for the Private Banking Client, with Raul Salas, LatinFinance Magazine (April 2000).
- Banking Across Borders: Regulatory Frameworks Dictate Business, with Bowman Brown and William McCullough, LatinFinance Magazine (January - February 1996).
Education
- University of Michigan School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1993
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., English, with highest honors, 1991
Bar Admissions
- The Florida Bar