Anne E. Sutherland has more than 20 years of experience advising mortgage loan origination and servicing clients. She advises on the full range of federal mortgage banking and servicing-related statutes and regulations, particularly those related to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Ms. Sutherland also is known for her work helping clients develop implementation plans that fold those requirements into their day-to-day operations.

Ms. Sutherland is the former Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary at Nationstar Mortgage (previously Centex Home Equity Company), where she directed the legal and compliance departments for 15 years and played a key role in the company start-up. Under her leadership, the company grew from $12 billion in mortgage servicing to $100+ billion in 18 months. Ms. Sutherland served as an adviser to the CEO and CFO and helped lead Nationstar through acquisitions, purchase of mortgage servicing rights, facility financing, public debt issuance, and S1 filings.

Ms. Sutherland has significant experience handling the purchase and sale of whole loans. She also advises on foreclosure look-back audits and assists auditors with state law foreclosure issues. At Nationstar, she oversaw the successful resolution of hundreds of litigated matters throughout the United States, including class actions and complex litigation for cases involving loan origination, loan servicing, and securitization. Her work encompassed regulatory compliance and risk mitigation, to ensure adherence to federal and state statutes and consumer protection laws such as the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, and Truth in Lending Act.

Ms. Sutherland also previously was Division Counsel and Secretary at Contimortgage Corporation, a Hatboro, Pennsylvania-based multibillion-dollar mortgage company; Assistant General Counsel with Ford Consumer Finance; and Counsel with Wells Fargo Credit Corporation.