Nathan Lebioda

About Nathan Lebioda

I advise boards and senior leadership teams at financial institutions on the regulatory and strategic issues that matter most — from inception through transformation to failure.As General Counsel and Managing Director at Chain Bridge Partners, I work alongside former FDIC board members and senior federal regulators to help financial institutions navigate the full regulatory lifecycle — from charter inception and de novo applications through recovery and resolution planning, with enterprise transformation and remediation in between.Before joining Chain Bridge, I spent nearly a decade at Wells Fargo, rising from Capital Markets Counsel to Executive Vice President in the Finance organization. I led the bank’s global recovery and resolution planning office, overseeing Wells Fargo’s pivotal shift from a multiple-point-of-entry to single-point-of-entry resolution strategy—along with other financial resiliency-oriented regulatory submissions across North America, Europe, and Asia. I served as a board member of Wells Fargo Intermediate Holdings, LLC and led several enterprise programs including negative interest rate preparedness, financed emissions measurement, and operational risk and compliance across a 4,100-person CFO organization.My career began in Big Law restructuring at Jones Day, K&L Gates and Winston & Strawn where I advised on some of the defining transactions of the 2008 financial crisis, including Chrysler’s Chapter 11 sale to Fiat and Lehman Brothers’ derivatives wind-down and ensuing litigation.I bring a rare combination: the legal precision of a restructuring attorney, the operational judgment of a finance executive, and the regulatory fluency of someone who has sat across the table from prudential regulators spanning three continents as a principal of a G-SIB.Areas of focus: · Regulatory and Risk Advisory & Remediation · Enterprise Transformation · Recovery and Resolution Planning (165(d) and CIDI) · Financed Emissions Measurement · Corporate RestructuringMcGill University (B.Commerce)| Washington & Lee University School of Law (J.D.)Licensed to practice law in New York and North Carolina

Experience

1. General Counsel and Managing Director

   Chain Bridge Partners

   Mar 2024 — Present · Washington, DC, US

Education

• Washington and Lee University School of Law

  J.D., Law

  2003 — 2006

• McGill University

  B. Commerce, Logistics Management; Information Systems Analysis

  1999 — 2003

Skills

• Restructuring
• Capital Markets
• Strategy
• Change Management
• Finance
• Corporate Governance