Barry Metzger is a partner with Coudert Brothers practising global finance law in the firm's New York office. In over 20 years of private practice with Coudert Brothers, Mr Metzger has advised on a variety of innovative international banking and finance transactions. From 1995 to early 1999, Mr Metzger was on sabbatical from the firm while he served as general counsel for the Asian Development Bank. At the Asian Development Bank, Mr Metzger was intimately involved in the Bank's emergency assistance to Korea, Thailand and Indonesia during the Asian financial crisis, in the Bank's project financing of infrastructure, in its investment funds activities and in its work on legal reform in the Bank's developing member countries. Mr Metzger is a recognized authority on legal systems and economic law reform. He has advised the Russian Republic and the Republic of Korea on corporate governance reform and has written extensively on such issues as they affect economic development and foreign investment.
July 04 2002
