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