Bradley Wendt

His prior experience and positions include managing director at a multinational financial services company, co-founder and president of the leading wealth management trading platform, and senior advisor to the Under Secretary of the US Treasury.

Mr. Wendt’s CRA dispute engagements include: bondholder claims on $15 billion of defaulted structured securities, alleged improper accounting on $7 billion of corporate obligations, fraud allegations regarding $3 billion of securities for federal public-private partnerships, alleged mispricing of $700 million utility obligations, independent compliance review for $450 million derivative product portfolio, major US city’s “ability-to-pay” $2 billion employee back wages, sovereign government’s “ability-to-pay” $655 million federal court judgment, alleged deficient new issue disclosure, alleged breach of fiduciary and unauthorized trading by insurance company CFO, and investment banking and broker dealer custom and practice. Mr. Wendt has provided expert opinions and consultation in federal and foreign courts, state courts, and domestic arbitrations.

In 2018, Mr. Wendt temporarily left CRA to accept Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s two-year appointment as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of the US Treasury. As a US Treasury Senior Advisor, he led Treasury’s fiscal engagement with Puerto Rico’s leadership on all issues central to the Commonwealth’s $75 billion municipal securities bankruptcy and $40 billion Hurricane Maria disaster recovery disbursements. Mr. Wendt directly interfaced with all US federal agencies, including The White House, Office of Management and Budget, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Wendt led over 500 internal credit reviews and compliance meetings for fixed income products and municipal bond offerings. His discussions and presentations to issuers culminated in $100 billion of fixed income capital markets new issue securities.

Mr. Wendt was honored by Institutional Investor with their Deal of the Year award for innovative capital markets financings. He recently served as the Discussant for the Conference paper: “A Comparison of Transaction Costs for Municipal Securities and Other Fixed-Income Securities.” The paper was presented by Simon Wu, Chief Economist for the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board.

In addition to his work at CRA, Mr. Wendt is a Business Fellow for Financial Markets at Purdue University’s Mitch Daniels School of Business, providing thought leadership to engage and guide students, while making a meaningful impact on both the school and the future of business.