Brent McIntosh serves as General Counsel for the Department of the Treasury, where he provides legal and policy advice to the Secretary and other senior Departmental officials. The General Counsel also serves as head of the Treasury Legal Division, a bureau comprising lawyers across the Treasury Department and their supporting staff. Before his confirmation as General Counsel, Mr. McIntosh was a partner in the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he was a member of the firm’s litigation and financial services practice groups and co-led the firm’s cybersecurity practice. Mr. McIntosh served in the White House from 2006 until 2009, first as Associate Counsel to the President and then as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Staff Secretary. From 2004 until 2006, he served in the Office of Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice, including as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General. At both the White House Counsel’s Office and the Justice Department, Mr. McIntosh’s work focused on national security and intelligence matters, as well as the judicial selection process.