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Regulatory Restructuring of the Financial Services Industry: What You Need To Know
Melissa Netram
Director, Regulatory and Securities Affairs
The Financial Services Roundtable
Melissa Netram is currently the Director of Regulatory and Securities Affairs at the Financial Services Roundtable. In her role, Melissa advocates the Roundtable’s positions on regulatory and securities issues. Prior to joining the Roundtable, Melissa worked for The McGraw-Hill Companies as the Director of Privacy and Government Affairs, where she primarily worked on legislative and regulatory issues for Standard & Poor’s. Prior to McGraw-Hill, Melissa worked in several departments of the U.S. Department of Treasury as a Presidential Management Fellow, including the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Compliance Policy, Office of Financial Institutions and GSE Policy, and in the Chief Counsel’s office at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Melissa received a J.D. from The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Villanova University. She is licensed to practice law in Maryland.
Russell J. Bruemmer
Partner, Chair, Financial Institutions Practice Group
Wilmerhale
Russell J. Bruemmer is a partner in the firm's Regulatory and Government Affairs and Corporate and Transactional Departments. He is the chair of the Financial Institutions Practice Group, and a member of the Defense, National Security and Government Contracts Practice Group. Mr. Bruemmer is also a member of the Executive Committee. He joined the firm in 1981.
In February 1978, Mr. Bruemmer was appointed Special Assistant to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He served in that position until June 1980, when he became Chief Counsel-Congressional Affairs for the FBI, a position he held until he joined the firm in 1981. Mr. Bruemmer also served as Special Counsel to the Director of Central Intelligence from
September 1987 to January 1988 and as the Central Intelligence Agency's General Counsel from January 1988 until March 1990. At the CIA, Mr. Bruemmer managed an office of 60 lawyers and was the senior legal officer for the Agency and the Director of Central Intelligence.
Practice
Mr. Bruemmer's practice focuses primarily on the corporate and financial services areas, including the negotiation and documentation of acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures and financing transactions, and on corporate governance and corporate structuring matters. He regularly counsels with clients on the regulation of financial services, including enforcement matters, and represents companies and individuals with national security issues. Mr. Bruemmer’s clients include companies engaged in, and transactions involving, financial services, technology and biotechnology, telecommunications, energy and other industry sectors. He has represented some of the country's largest corporations in acquisitions and divestitures, corporate structurings, joint ventures and financings. He also has represented audit committees and special committees in corporate investigations and other special assignments. These assignments have involved both US and international transactions, a number of which have required compliance with an applicable regulatory regime.
Linda A. Watters
Managing Director, Insurance Regulatory Practice
KPMG LLP
Linda is a Managing Director of KPMG's Insurance Regulatory Practice which provides a broad range of compliance and regulatory services to assist clients balance regulatory needs, demands and requirements with business efficiency to transform compliance into a business strategy.
Linda has over 25 years of professional financial services experience in the insurance regulatory and banking industries. Most recently, she has spent nearly five years as Commissioner of a very large complex state regulatory agency, overseeing an organization responsible for the regulation of domestic, foreign and alien insurance carriers and payers, banks, securities broker dealers and other consumer finance entities to ensure their financial solvency, market conduct and safety and soundness. She brought a tremendous amount of accountability and structure to what had been a loosely managed organization resulting in greater efficiencies and established mutual respect with international insurance regulatory agencies and commissions as primary US regulator for several alien insurers.
Founding President and CEO, responsible for the capitalization and chartering of a de novo bank from the start. She controlled, managed and directed all functional areas of the bank’s operations.
For a commercial bank, she was a middle market and large corporate lender managing a loan portfolio with a customer base of both Fortune 1000 companies and private-held automotive suppliers. Linda was responsible for landing the Bank’s participation in major loan syndication.
Linda's experiences includes working for a regional bank, middle market lender, managing loan portfolio of fifty tier-two and tier-three automotive and aircraft suppliers. She developed, structured and closed new commercial loan packages to allow for the expansion of manufacturing facilities, major equipment purchases, mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, she developed marketing strategies to expand banking relationships to prospective customers. She coordinated industrial development bond funding documentation with corporate legal, bond trustee, international and credit.
Linda was a Senior Market Analyst for a leading global automobile company where she served as liaison for export markets in the Middle East and Europe, analyzed market studies for senior strategy board to assess geographic and economic opportunities for long term product plans. She negotiated pricing proposals for sales incentive programs for Japanese joint venture partners and established a computerized data base of competitive export nameplates.
Linda holds a MBA from the University of Dayton and a BA in Economics, Bowling Green State University.
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