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Brian S. Korn is a Chambers-rated partner in Manatt’s New York office and leads the firm’s fintech and blockchain and cryptocurrency practices. His practice focuses on corporate finance transactions. Over the past five years, Brian has led initial public offerings (IPOs), early-stage and start-up venture financings, fund formations, private equity and high-yield debt financings. He also advises clients on SEC and broker-dealer/investment advisory compliance, corporate swap transactions, and blockchain tokenology. Brian regularly advises lenders and borrowers in warehouse lines of credit and asset-backed financings, focused on the fintech consumer and small business lending industries.
Brian has extensive experience representing issuers and underwriters in investment banking and capital markets transactions, including special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), spin-offs, split-offs and carveout/tracking stock transactions. He also has extensive experience in sponsor-leveraged buyouts and bank/bond acquisition financing.
His deep technical knowledge of the fintech space has contributed to the Manatt fintech team’s track record of success in advising cutting-edge fintech startups. He is recognized by The Legal 500 for being “very active in the fintech platform and Regulation A space. He has good visibility with the SEC and is willing to push through novel concepts and issues.” Under his leadership, the firm won “Professional Services Firm of the Year” at the 2022 Fintech Nexus Industry Awards. The firm also achieved a Chambers GlobalFintech rating, and Brian was recognized as a Band 4 practitioner and Who’s Who in Fintech 2024.
A prolific speaker and writer, Brian has had multiple media interviews with Fox Business Television, National Public Radio, Billboard Magazine, Bloomberg, American Banker and Law360, commenting on capital markets, securities laws, fintech, blockchain and cryptocurrency, including the impact on nonfungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized finance (DeFi), marketplace lending and market trading dynamics.
Northwestern University School of Law, J.D., 1997
Note and comment editor, Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
University of California, Berkeley, B.A., with honors and distinction, 1993