Kay Bondehagen

• Banking
• Financial Services

District of Columbia

Ms. Bondehagen is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia, Wisconsin and Washington State. She is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Associate

Goodwin Procter LLP

Current

Current

#longPEBdisplay:none;Prior to joining Goodwin Procter, Ms. Bondehagen was assistant general counsel for legislation and financial services at the Securities and Exchange Commission. She assisted the Commission with congressional and financial services matters including auditor independence, financial privacy, implementation of government guaranteed loan board legislation, electronic signatures, bankruptcy reform, market improvement, and SEC funding and pay parity.Prior to her work at the Commission, Ms. Bondehagen was senior counsel and special assistant to the First Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”). She worked on financial services reform legislation and national bank regulatory matters including preemption, securities offerings and enforcement, derivatives, trust regulation, bank mutual funds, accounting issues, and charter and merger applications in the Chief Counsel's Office. While at the OCC, she was detailed to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Finance where she was staff counsel during the enactment of interstate banking and other legislation. Ms. Bondehagen also served a detail to the Treasury Department to work on functional regulation and financial institution bankruptcy legislation. She was legal liaison to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council.Prior to her work at the OCC, Ms. Bondehagen was a senior attorney in the Banking Structure Section of the...more »Prior to joining Goodwin Procter, Ms. Bondehagen was assistant general counsel for legislation and financial services at the Securities and Exchange Commission. She assisted the Commission with congressional and financial services matters including auditor independence, financial privacy, implementation of government guaranteed loan board legislation, electronic signatures, bankruptcy reform, market improvement, and SEC funding and pay parity.Prior to her work at the Commission, Ms. Bondehagen was senior counsel and special assistant to the First Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”). She worked on financial services reform legislation and national bank regulatory matters including preemption, securities offerings and enforcement, derivatives, trust regulation, bank mutual funds, accounting issues, and charter and merger applications in the Chief Counsel's Office. While at the OCC, she was detailed to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Finance where she was staff counsel during the enactment of interstate banking and other legislation. Ms. Bondehagen also served a detail to the Treasury Department to work on functional regulation and financial institution bankruptcy legislation. She was legal liaison to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council.Prior to her work at the OCC, Ms. Bondehagen was a senior attorney in the Banking Structure Section of the Federal Reserve Board Legal Division. While at the Federal Reserve, she worked on a variety of merger and acquisition, change in control and Bank Holding Company Act matters, including applications by banking organizations relating to securities underwriting and dealing, noncontrolling investments in securities firms, government options trading and securities placement.Ms. Bondehagen began her legal career as an assistant attorney general for the State of Wisconsin Department of Justice. She focused on financial services as an associate for a Seattle law firm, where she assisted clients with banking, business bankruptcy, trust, UCC and litigation matters prior to joining the legal staff of the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. less »

Columbia University Law School

LL.M.

1982

Chamberlain Legislation Award

University of Wisconsin Law School

J.D.

1978

honor roll, Federal Judicial intern

University of Wisconsin-Madison

B.A.

1974

high honors