Andrea Lee Negroni
Of Counsel

Buckley Kolar LLP
1250 24th Street, N.W., Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20037
(202) 349-8032
(202) 349-8080 (fax)

Practice

Andrea Lee Negroni is an attorney in the field of financial services regulation and an advisor to companies in the area of outsourcing and offshoring business and legal services. Early in her career, she was an officer at a national residential mortgage company and later, an executive at a national real estate asset management firm. She is the author of several law books and the editor-in-chief of two monthly newsletters, including the LPO Network, which reports on developments in the legal outsource processing field. She is a frequent speaker at conferences of the American Conference Institute, Mortgage Bankers Association and other professional and industry associations.

Ms. Negroni has conducted due diligence reviews of several independent mortgage companies prior to their acquisitions or IPOs. She has conducted 50-state surveys of virtually every substantive area of regulatory compliance of interest to residential mortgage lenders. Under a USAID contract, Ms. Negroni advised the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Slovakia on the implementation of a private mortgage banking system in that country. In 2007, she completed a tour of several business process outsource (BPO) and legal process oursource (LPO) companies in India.

Professional Activities

Ms. Negroni is a member of the District of Columbia and Florida Bar Associations, the National Association of Professional Mortgage Women, and SCRIBES.

Ms. Negroni has served as a member of the Advisory Council of the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators (AARMR) and on the Board of Governors of the Mortgage Bankers Association of Metropolitan Washington. She is Treasurer of the Columbia University Club of Washington, D.C. and a member of the Columbia University Club in New York.

Publications/Presentations

Ms. Negroni is the author of Residential Mortgage Lending: State Regulation Manual and Residential Mortgage Lending: Brokers, and a co-author of Pratt's State Regulation of Second Mortgages and Home Equity Loans. She is also the author of Introduction to Mortgage Lending, published by the American Bankers Association (ABA) in 2006. She is the author of more than 50 articles on consumer credit regulation and related subjects, which have appeared in a variety of professional publications. Ms. Negroni is a frequent speaker at meetings of the Mortgage Bankers Association, American Conference Institute, and other companies, and has presented at conferences sponsored by Thompson/West and the Texas Bar Association.

Professional Experience

Before joining Buckley Kolar, Ms. Negroni was a partner with Goodwin Procter. From 1992-2000, she was the managing partner of Negroni & Kromer, PLLC, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm with an emphasis on the business concerns of financial institutions, including mortgage and real estate companies, Internet-based loan originators, consumer credit lenders, commercial banks and thrifts, and their holding companies. She has also been vice president and associate general counsel of The Prudential Home Mortgage Company and counsel and executive vice president of Skyline Financial Services Corporation (predecessor to GE Capital Asset Management Corporation).

Honors and Awards

Ms. Negroni was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award in 1997 from the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators.

Education

J.D., Columbia University School of Law
B.A., Emory University