Alexandra Dugan

Alexandra Dugan is a partner with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP in Nashville, Tenn., and regularly represents financial services and mortgage company clients with compliance matters, including risk-management and remediation, state investigations, regulatory compliance and operational implementation of legal guidelines. Her practice focuses on bankruptcy compliance and regulatory concerns. She also is a member of the firm’s Auto Finance and Payment Systems industry teams. Ms. Dugan provides daily guidance to clients on bankruptcy-related regulatory and compliance matters, supervises large-scale remediation projects, designs and presents bankruptcy training programs, implements changes to business practices that are required as a result of new statutes and regulations, and works through operational matters that arise daily in a client’s bankruptcy department. She works directly with her clients’ internal legal department and business leaders to identify the most efficient and effective measures to ensure compliance with federal, state and local requirements and mitigate risk. She also routinely responds to inquiries from government entities, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), on behalf of her clients. In addition to her compliance work, Ms. Dugan represents mortgage companies in litigation matters across the country — including advising clients and local counsel concerning best practices. Her practice also includes representation of debtors and secured creditors in chapter 11 cases, out-of-court workouts, reorganizations, restructurings and liquidations. Her practice spans a wide range of industries, including bank and nonbank lenders, investors in distressed assets, legal, automotive and commercial real estate. Mr. Dugan is a member of the Conference on Consumer Finance Law (CCFL) and the American Bar Association, for which she serves as Pro Bono Subcommittee chair for its Consumer Financial Services Committee and as webmaster of its Bankruptcy Court Structure and Insolvency Committee. She also is a member of the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees and the Nashville Bar Association’s Mortgage Committee, and she is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) by the American Bankers Association. Ms. Dugan received her B.A. cum laude in 2008 from Vanderbilt University and her J.D. in 2011 with honors from Emory University School of Law, where she was admitted to the Order of the Coif.