4208 Six Forks Road Suite 1400, Raleigh, NC USA 27609
Waylon Bryson focuses his practice on all aspects of fund formation, investment advisory, transactional, regulatory compliance, and enforcement matters. He handles complex corporate, regulatory enforcement, and litigation matters relating to international, national, and small-firm broker-dealers, investment advisers, and their agents and affiliates.
Prior to joining the firm, Waylon was Vice President & Counsel for Credit Suisse, where he advised on various matters related to the bank’s Asset Management and Private Banking divisions. He provided primary business coverage to one of Credit Suisse’s investment management boutiques as well as to its legacy private banking feeder business, and he was Asset Management Cross-Border Legal for the United States. Waylon spent a year on assignment in Switzerland, where he supported the global head of Compliance Investigations on a sensitive regulatory project related to Credit Suisse’s 2014 settlement of U.S. tax-related matters.
While attending Vanderbilt University Law School, Waylon was a legal writing teaching assistant in its LL.M. Program and a research assistant to Professor J.B. Ruhl. He also served as a student intern at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in New York City, a legal intern at Nissan North America in Franklin, Tennessee, and a summer law clerk in Vanderbilt University’s Office of the General Counsel.
Prior to launching his legal career, Waylon was an assistant language teacher with the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme in Sendai, Japan where he taught junior high and elementary school students for four years.
Waylon has a working knowledge of Japanese.
Insights View All
Vanderbilt University Law School J.D. (2014)
Washington State University B.A. (2007) Philosophy, magna cum laude
New York (2015)
North Carolina (2020)
Disclaimer
While we are pleased to have you contact us by telephone, surface mail, electronic mail, or by facsimile transmission, contacting Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP or any of its attorneys does not create an attorney-client relationship. The formation of an attorney-client relationship requires consideration of multiple factors, including possible conflicts of interest. An attorney-client relationship is formed only when both you and the Firm have agreed to proceed with a defined engagement.
DO NOT CONVEY TO US ANY INFORMATION YOU REGARD AS CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL A FORMAL CLIENT-ATTORNEY RELATIONSHIP HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED.
If you do convey information, you recognize that we may review and disclose the information, and you agree that even if you regard the information as highly confidential and even if it is transmitted in a good faith effort to retain us, such a review does not preclude us from representing another client directly adverse to you, even in a matter where that information could be used against you.
