Brian Daly

Brian Daly became Director of the Division of Investment Management in July 2025. He brings decades of experience serving in prominent roles at global law firms and investment management firms while advising fund managers and sponsors on regulatory compliance.

In 2021, Mr. Daly joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in New York as a partner in the investment management practice, where he guided investment advisers and other clients on their legal and compliance programs, policies, and procedures. He also counseled on fund and management company formation, operational and trading issues, contentious matters, and management company transactions.

Prior to Akin, Mr. Daly spent nearly a decade as a partner in the investment management group of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, advising investment advisers and fund managers on legal, compliance, and operational issues and matters. He also was a founding equity partner of Kepos Capital, a quantitative investment management company, while he served as chief legal and compliance officer. Among other prior positions, Mr. Daly served in general counsel and chief compliance officer positions at Millennium Partners, a Carlyle Group liquid markets fund manager, and Raptor Capital Management. He also taught legal ethics at Yale Law School and served on the board of directors of the Managed Funds Association.

Mr. Daly earned his law degree, with distinction, from Stanford Law School, where he was an associate editor on the Stanford Law Review and the editor-in-chief of the Stanford Journal of International Law. He received his bachelor's degree, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Catholic University and his master's degree from the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii.