Lawyers / Professionals

 
Wendy L. Spanbauer       
Senior Counsel
201 North Tryon Street
Charlotte, North Carolina 28202-2146
T: 704.343.2279
F: 704.444.8747
wspanbauer@mcguirewoods.com
 

Ms. Spanbauer's practice includes residential mortgage loan acquisition and securitization transactions, correspondent lending programs, warehouse lending/repurchase facilities, corporate trust, custody and escrow arrangements. Most recently, she has represented the corporate trust administration and business transaction services lines of business for a major financial institution with respect to a variety of transactional, bankruptcy, litigation and other issues relating to the administration of those businesses during the financial crisis.

She also has experience with matters related to syndicated lending transactions, mortgage servicing, commercial real estate securitization transactions and distressed debt trading.


Representative Matters
  • Provided internal legal support to trust administration, document custody and business transaction services lines of business for a major financial institution.
  • Represented numerous investment banks, commercial banks and mortgage companies in various purchases and sales of residential mortgage loan portfolios in the secondary market.
  • Provided advice regarding implementation of a correspondent lending program and drafted complete Correspondent Lending Guide for major financial institution.
  • Represented senior secured lenders in documenting, negotiating and closing numerous warehouse lending and repurchase arrangements to a variety of residential mortgage loan originators.

Practices & Industries
Honors
  • "50 Most Influential Women," The Mecklenburg Times, 2010

Previous Experience
  • Counsel, Hunton & Williams LLP, Charlotte, North Carolina
  • Associate, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, Charlotte, North Carolina
  • Law Clerk, the Hon. I. Beverly Lake, North Carolina Supreme Court

Professional Affiliations
  • North Carolina State Bar
  • Transportation Committee of 21, Charlotte Chamber of Commerce

Civic Affiliations
  • Board Member, Coulwood-Oakdale Little League Association
 

EDUCATION

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, J.D., with Honors, 1998

  • Staff Member, Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, B.A. Public Policy, 1993

 
 

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