Brennan W. Young

Brennan W. Young is an attorney at Mayer Brown LLP and a member of the Tax Transactions & Planning practice. He has a broad-based transaction-oriented US federal income tax practice focused on structuring and negotiating the tax aspects of securities offerings including collateralized loan obligations, collateralized fund obligations, and other structured finance products, insurance-linked securities offerings (such as catastrophe bonds and reinsurance side-cars), derivatives and other bespoke products. He also advises on the US federal income tax considerations related to domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, and reinsurance transactions. He is a frequent speaker on various topics with the Practising Law Institute and on the advisory board of the Journal of Taxation of Financial Products.

Brennan is named a Rising Star by Legal 500 for Tax: Financial Products.

• University of Central Florida, BSc
• Tulane University, JD, cum laude
• New York University School of Law, LLM

• New York
• North Carolina