About

Prior to starting her firm in 2010, Ms. Nordgren was a legal consultant to FINCA International and to Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF). She was also the first General Counsel of Global Communities (formerly CHF International). From 1999 through 2007, Ms. Nordgren was Assistant General Counsel at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) (now the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)), where she was responsible for structuring, negotiating, and closing cross-border structured finance, SME, microfinance, loan guaranty, and political risk insurance transactions worldwide.
Prior to joining DFC, Ms. Nordgren was Associate General Counsel of Rolls-Royce North America, and practiced law in the New York offices of Hunton & Williams and Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon.
Ms. Nordgren is a cum laude graduate of Middlebury College, where she received degrees in Political Science and French, with a minor in International Relations. She also studied at Dartmouth College and l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. Ms. Nordgren received a J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law, where she was Managing Editor of the Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal. In 1994, Ms. Nordgren was chosen by the New York State Bar Association to join the United Nations as an International Elections Observer for Mozambique’s first democratic elections. Ms. Nordgren is licensed to practice in New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia.
Ms. Nordgren has served on the boards of, and continues to provide pro bono legal services to, several non-profit community organizations in the Washington, D.C. area.
Ms. Nordgren has been practicing law for over thirty years, with the last twenty dedicated to advising clients on complex cross-border finance transactions in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, India, Latin America, and the Middle East. Ms. Nordgren is also an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Law International Transactions Clinic.
Prior to starting her firm in 2010, Ms. Nordgren was a legal consultant to FINCA International and to Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF). She was also the first General Counsel of Global Communities (formerly CHF International). From 1999 through 2007, Ms. Nordgren was Assistant General Counsel at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) (now the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)), where she was responsible for structuring, negotiating, and closing cross-border structured finance, SME, microfinance, loan guaranty, and political risk insurance transactions worldwide.
Prior to joining DFC, Ms. Nordgren was Associate General Counsel of Rolls-Royce North America, and practiced law in the New York offices of Hunton & Williams and Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon.
Ms. Nordgren is a cum laude graduate of Middlebury College, where she received degrees in Political Science and French, with a minor in International Relations. She also studied at Dartmouth College and l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. Ms. Nordgren received a J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law, where she was Managing Editor of the Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal. In 1994, Ms. Nordgren was chosen by the New York State Bar Association to join the United Nations as an International Elections Observer for Mozambique’s first democratic elections. Ms. Nordgren is licensed to practice in New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia, and is admitted to practice in the Second Circuit.
Ms. Nordgren has served on the boards of, and continues to provide pro bono legal services to, several non-profit community organizations in the Washington, D.C. area.
