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Barrett Lopez

General Counsel, Corporate and M&a at Hightower Advisors

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Barrett Lopez has been General Counsel, Corporate and M&a of Hightower Advisors, LLC, a Chicago, IL investment adviser managing $199B, since January 2025.

1
Years in role
$199B
Firm AUM
64,035
Firm clients
953
Firm advisers

From Form ADV filed 3 September 2026Form ADV

Career

Barrett Lopez is a control person of Hightower Advisors and directly owns under 5% of it. Barrett Lopez holds a Juris Doctor from Northwestern University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College.

Hightower Advisors is an investment adviser based in Chicago, IL, registered with the SEC since 2008. It provides financial planning and investment management. Its clients include high-net-worth individuals, individual clients, and corporations and other businesses. Its regulatory assets under management total $199 billion, as filed on 3 September 2026. Its fees, ownership and offices are on the firm’s profile.

Barrett Lopez is General Counsel of Hightower. He leads the firm’s legal department and joined Hightower in 2019, having previously served as deputy general counsel. Before joining Hightower, Lopez practiced at Winston & Strawn in Chicago, focusing on financial services, and began his legal career in the Washington, D.C. office of McDermott Will & Emery as a corporate transactional attorney.

Key facts

CRD
5664824
Firm
Hightower Advisors · CRD 145323
Role
General Counsel, Corporate and M&a
In role since
January 2025 · 1 year
Control person
Yes
Direct ownership
Under 5%
Firm headquarters
Chicago, IL
Individual registration
No current adviser record · SEC search
Disciplinary history
Not yet shown here · SEC record

Common questions

Where does Barrett Lopez work?

Barrett Lopez has been General Counsel, Corporate and M&a of Hightower Advisors, LLC since January 2025, and is a control person of the firm.

Source: Form ADV, Schedule A, filed 3 September 2026

How can I verify Barrett Lopez’s record?

Barrett Lopez’s role is listed on Hightower Advisors, LLC’s Form ADV, which the SEC’s adviser search (adviserinfo.sec.gov) publishes under the firm’s CRD 145323.

Source: Form ADV, Schedule A, filed 3 September 2026

Leadership at Hightower Advisors

Sources

  1. IAPD individual lookup, CRD 5664824, checked 18 October 2026. This profile uses the Form ADV officer listing; the individual lookup did not provide a current investment-adviser record.
  2. Form ADV Part 1A, Schedules A and B of Hightower Advisors, LLC, filed 3 September 2026. Title, control and ownership bands.
  3. Hightower Advisors team page. Biography, education, credentials, awards and the portrait, reproduced for identification.