Glen Barrentine's practice focuses broadly on legal and regulatory matters affecting broker-dealers, investment advisers, and other financial entities.  Glen frequently advises on regulatory inspections, examinations and inquiries, internal investigations and compliance reviews.  Areas of particular focus include trading related issues and supervisory and compliance processes and procedures.  Significant ongoing client representations include a high frequency trading firm, an institutional clearing firm and an NYSE/Amex designated market maker. 

Glen was formerly the Chief Regulatory Officer of the American Stock Exchange where he supervised its enforcement, options, and equities surveillance and other regulatory programs.  Before joining the Amex, Glen 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.  He also previously served at the U.S. 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.

Glen is the Co-Chair of the National Society of Compliance Professionals (NSCP) Investment Advisers Committee and a member of the NSCP Board of Directors.

Glen is one of the authors of Lofchie's Guide to Broker-Dealer Regulation and, in particular, is the principal author of the chapters on Trading and Supervision and, with Bradley J. Bondi, the chapter on Internal Investigations. Glen is also a frequent speaker at industry seminars and the author of a number of articles, including "Does the Securities and Exchange Commission Order Involving the AXA Rosenberg Entities Expand Advisers' Compliance Responsibilities," NSCP Currents, July/August 2011, "The SEC's Whistleblower Proposal," NSCP Currents, November/December (2010), "The SEC's Proposal for Regulating Dark Pools," Law360, December (2009)(with Steven D. Lofchie), "Reducing and Avoiding Pitfalls Through a More Effective Compliance Program," NSCP Currents, January/February (2008), and "Equity-Indexed Annuities: Regulatory Trouble for the Unwary," The Review of Securities and Commodities Regulation, Vol. 39, No. (2006) (with Thomas Kuczajda).

Glen earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston University School of Law and his B.A. from St. John's College in New Mexico.