Bryan M.O'Keefe

Bryan is also co-leader of Seyfarth’s Transactional Risk Insurance group. Operating as a model of cross-departmental innovation, the Seyfarth Transactional Risk Insurance group has quickly become one of the industry’s leading underwriting counsel practices. Bryan and his team of over 60 Seyfarth attorneys worldwide advise RWI insurance markets on all aspects of a deal, including advising at the pre-bid stage, crafting deal-specific and highly tailored underwriting call agendas, leading underwriting calls, running the underwriting process, preparing narrowly tailored exclusions, identifying key legal risks, and assisting with policy drafting. Given his work in this space, Attorney Intel named Bryan to its national list of the Top 25 Financial Services & Insurance Attorneys in 2025. Bryan frequently appears in the media and conferences commenting on transactional risk insurance matters and is widely recognized as one of the thought leaders in the industry.

Given his strong familiarity with private equity investments, Bryan is frequently called upon after a transaction to be the “outside general counsel” for growth stage portfolio companies that lack in-house legal capabilities. In this role, Bryan serves as a “quarterback” for his clients and coordinates strategic legal matters across a wide variety of issues, including litigation, labor and employment, employee benefits, trade secrets and restrictive covenants, IP, real estate, and environmental matters. Through the Seyfarth platform and Bryan’s collaboration and partnership with deal counsel, Bryan ensures that portfolio companies receive legal advice and counsel that enhance the long-term value of the company. Bryan relishes working closely with these companies and helping them take their businesses to the next level.

In addition to these practices, Bryan frequently represents employers as “boots on the ground” for traditional labor law matters, most notably in the hospitality industry. Bryan defends employers in grievance and arbitration matters, NLRB unfair labor practice charges and administrative law judge trials, NLRB appellate matters, union organizing and representational elections, collective bargaining, strikes, pickets, and corporate campaigns. Bryan was the management co-chair for Region V of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Practice and Procedure under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and was active with the Committee at the national level. In addition, Bryan has been a contributing editor to The Developing Labor Law and How to Take a Case Before the NLRB. He has also been recognized in the Legal 500 for his work in labor-management relations.

Bryan graduated summa cum laude from the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law and graduated summa cum laude from George Washington University, with a BA in Political Communications. While in law school, Bryan was the editor-in-chief of the Penn State Law Review. Prior to receiving his law degree, Bryan was a public policy consultant on labor, employment, and higher education in Washington, DC for several think tanks and trade associations, working with organizations such as the US Chamber of Commerce and HR Policy Association.