Alex Dugan regularly represents financial services and mortgage company clients with compliance matters, including risk management and remediation, stateinvestigations, regulatory compliance, and operational implementation of legal guidelines. Alex’s practice focuses on the bankruptcy compliance andregulatory concerns that her clients face. She is also a member of the firm's Auto Finance and Payment Systems industry teams.

With this experience and perspective, Alex provides daily guidance to clients on bankruptcy-related regulatory and compliance matters, superviseslarge-scale remediation projects, designs and presents bankruptcy training programs, implements changes to business practices that are required as a resultof new statutes and regulations, and works through operational matters that arise daily in a client’s bankruptcy department. She works directly with herclients’ internal legal department and business leaders to identify the most efficient and effective measures to ensure compliance with federal, state, andlocal requirements and mitigate risk. Alex also routinely responds to inquiries from government entities, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), onbehalf of her clients.

In addition to her compliance work, Alex represents mortgage companies in litigation matters across the country—including advising clients and localcounsel concerning best practices.

Alex’s practice also includes representation of debtors and secured creditors in Chapter 11 cases, out-of-court workouts, reorganizations, restructuringsand liquidations. Her practice spans a wide range of industries, including bank and non-bank lenders, investors in distressed assets, legal, automotive andcommercial real estate.

Bar Admissions

• Tennessee, 2011
• South Dakota, 2022

• United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee
• United States District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee
• United States District Court, Western District of Tennessee

Education

• Emory University School of Law, J.D., 2011, with honors; Order of the Coif
• Vanderbilt University, B.A., 2008, cum laude