Glen Barrentine's practice focuses on legal and regulatory matters affecting broker-dealers, investment advisers, and other financial entities. Areas of particular focus include trading related issues, clearing and prime brokerage, and fund administration. Significant ongoing client representations include prime brokerage firms and specialists. Glen frequently advises on regulatory inspections, examinations and inquiries, internal investigations and compliance reviews.

Chambers USA lists Glen among the leading individual attorneys for Financial Services Regulation: Broker Dealer.

Glen was formerly the Chief Regulatory Officer of the American Stock Exchange. While at the Amex, he supervised its 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 its existing regulatory program, resulting in significant changes to its structure, procedures, and surveillance routines.

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. Glen also supported several business units within Banc of America Securities, including Clearing, Prime Brokerage, and Private Client Services.

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. 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.

Glen is a frequent speaker at industry seminars and has been a panelist at NSCP's last two national meetings. He is the author of "Equity-Indexed Annuities: Regulatory Trouble for the Unwary," The Review of Securities and Commodities Regulation, Vol. 39, No. (2006) (with Thomas Kuczajda), and "Reducing and Avoiding Pitfalls Through a More Effective Compliance Program," NSCP Currents, January/February (2008).

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.

He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York.