Brandon Whittaker is an executive coach and a consultant affiliated with the Tokyo office of A&O Shearman. Brandon has experience supporting on a range of capital markets transactions. He has also been involved in various deals supporting sponsors and investors in private equity transactions, including fund formation, fund investment and related portfolio company acquisitions. 

Brandon previously worked as an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York and Tokyo. Prior to law school, Brandon worked in the New York, Tokyo and London offices of 

UBS and held roles in its legal and compliance, operations and business management departments.

Brandon received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was an Executive Editor of the Harvard Business Law Review.  Brandon is a admitted to the bar in the State of New York. 

Brandon is also a Specially Appointed Professor at Rikkyo University and a lecturer at Keio University.