Margaret Chase

About Margaret Chase

Margaret Chase blends more than twenty-five years of in-house and law firm experience in her work as deputy general counsel and executive vice president at Truist Bank, supporting its consumer businesses. With broad experience in complex financial transactions, multi-faceted regulatory issues, and difficult compliance and risk matters, Margaret is helping Truist drive innovation, solutions, and financial services that serve its customers. Her experience includes- reducing risk, protecting capital, and producing returns- advising on new and existing consumer and bank regulations, legislation, and policy- structuring and negotiating sophisticated commercial deals- working with federal, state, and local regulators- mentoring people to broaden their skills and become strong leaders- presenting to boards, committees, and executive management teams- advising on litigation mattersPrior to Truist, Margaret was a Deputy General Counsel of Ally Bank where she led the legal mortgage, credit card, point of sale lending and bank regulatory team. While there, she advised on high-profile transactions and significant changes in the bank regulatory landscape. Prior to Ally, Margaret was Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Fannie Mae for over fifteen years. During this time, she counseled leaders and managed legal teams through two historic financial crises, and advised on actions recouping billions of dollars for the enterprise. She also led Fannie Mae’s legal department strategy, overseeing teams dedicated to developing high-performing talent; optimizing productivity, costs, and efficiencies; and understanding the legal issues relating to emerging technology.Prior to Fannie Mae, Margaret was a senior associate in Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe’s structured finance group. While there, she negotiated and structured 100+ securitizations and other deals on behalf of public and private top capital market financial institutions.Margaret believes in building legal teams that serve as true partners to the business not only through technical legal expertise, but also through creating a culture of trust, practicality, collaboration, and diversity of thought—a blend of principles that achieves the best possible strategic outcomes.

Experience

1. Deputy General Counsel and Executive Vice President

   Truist

   Nov 2024 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Consumer financial services

Education

• American University Washington College of Law

  JD

• Trinity College-Hartford

  BA, Political Science, Art History

Skills

• Appeals
• Commercial Litigation
• Credit
• Corporate Governance
• Arbitration
• Structured Finance
• Litigation
• Corporate Law
• Mortgage Servicing
• Securities Regulation
• Securities
• Risk Management
• Finance