Mr. Scott A. Stegel is a partner resident at King & Spalding in Washington, D.C., who specializes in banking law.

Mr. Stengel has provided regulatory counsel to global and domestic financial institutions in connection with strategic investments, acquisitions and divestitures, debt issuances, internal restructurings, affiliate transactions, commercial lending programs, government investigations, consumer-protection laws, and regulatory capital requirements. He has interfaced with federal and State regulators on a wide array of policy and institution-specific issues and has testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on bankruptcy and housing issues and before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee and the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on covered bonds and financial-markets issues.

Mr. Stengel also has represented financial institutions and nonfinancial companies in connection with capital-markets and commercial-loan transactions, including mortgage- and asset-backed securities, covered bonds, commercial paper, syndicated loans, and loan participations. He has provided expertise as well on commercial-law and restructuring matters and on legal issues implicated by risk management, compliance, and the application of accounting and auditing standards.

Mr. Stengel has played an active role in the securitization industry and in the development of a covered-bond market in the United States, including as outside counsel to the American Securitization Forum and as a member of the Steering Committee for the U.S. Covered Bond Council.

Mr. Stengel received his B.A. at the University of Notre Dame with summa cum laude, and his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame with magna cum laude.