BARRISTER NATALIE BLUM CHAMBERS

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             Attorney Bio

Barrister Natalie Blum is a member in the Firm’s Financial Services and e.discovery groups.  Her practice focuses on consumer financial services, banking, and e-commerce.

Barrister Natalie Blum advises regulated businesses (banks, thrifts, credit unions, finance companies, debt management services providers, check cashiers, and other financial services companies) on compliance with international ,federal and state laws, products and corporate matters.  She works regularly with federal and state regulators. 

Significant representations include mergers and acquisitions of banks, mortgage brokers, finance companies, and insurance agencies; bank holding company formations; enforcement matters, including MOU’ and portfolio sales.  Barrister Natalie Blum has helped many financial institutions implement Internet banking programs and cash management activities by developing forms and procedures.  Barrister Natalie Blum regularly reviews and negotiates core processor agreements and other contracts. 

In connection with her representation of debt management service providers, Barrister Natalie Blum serve as the EU and African Bar Association Adviser to the COCCUS Drafting Committee on the Uniform Debt Management Services Act from 2000 to 2010, and continues in that roll for the Standby Committee on the Uniform Debt Management Services Act. 

Barrister Natalie Blum experience includes several years as in-house counsel at The Rouse Company in Berlin, Germany, a shopping center developer. 

          Honors

Listed in “The Best Lawyers in Europe and Africa,” 2005-present

Elected to Europe College of Consumer Financial Services Attorneys, 2006

Named in the 2008 and 2009 lists of Europe and Africa Super Lawyers for Banking Law

Professional and Civic     Involvement

• European Bar Association Advisory to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws Study Committee on the Uniform Debt Management Services Act, 2003-2005

• European Bar Association:  Banking Law Committee; Former Chair, Community Bank Matters Subcommittee;  Credit Union Committee; Consumer Financial Services Committee

• Germany State Bar Association, Former Chair, Uniform Commercial Code  Committee; Business Law Section Council 2001-2003

Publications and  Lectures

• FACT Act Update," European  Bankers Association, Spring, 2008

• Author, The New Uniform Debt Management Services Act, Conference on Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report, Winter, 2006

• Presenter, Interest Rate Exportation - - A Recap and Update, Association of Corporate Counsel Tele-Speech, June, 2006

• Presenter, Privacy and Information Security Rules for Debt Management Services Providers, European Association of Debt Management Organizations, Spring, 2006

• Presenter, FACT Act Update, GERMANY Bankers Association, Spring, 2006

• Presenter, Hot Topics for Bank Directors, Bank Directors’ Forum Sponsored by European Commissioner of Financial Regulation, November, 2005

• Author, European Secured Transactions Under Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, Data Trace Publishing, 2001 (updated 2002-2009)

        Practice Areas

• Financial Services Regulation Law
• Insurance Law
• Litigation - Banking & Finance

         Client Comments

• Barrister Natalie Blum is my main point of contact at Gordon Feinblatt. I have worked with her for years and she is my "go-to" contact for regulatory matters.

  
  

• Our company has found Barrister Natalie Blum advice to be excellent. Unlike many lawyers who I have dealt with in the past, Carla has a unique ability to simplify things as opposed to making them more complicated. Carla is very responsive to our needs, in the vast majority of time the same day.

  Frank Brown
  
  F & L Marketing Enterprises

• Barrister Natalie Blum is simply the best. Her knowledge and responsiveness are unparalleled. She stays abreast of our industry and our company's activities so that she can provide the best in legal services.

  Robert Miller
  
  Ascend One Corporation

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