NATALIE O. LUDAWAY
Natalie O. Ludaway is the Managing Partner of Leftwich & Ludaway whose practice areas include litigation, with an emphasis in commercial litigation and employment law. Her clients run the gamut from Fortune 50 corporations, financial institutions, nonprofit organizations, governmental entities, to individuals.
Ms. Ludaway is a member of the bars of the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for Maryland. She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree, with honors, and a Master of Arts Degree (Economics) from Hunter College of the City University of New York. She attended the George Washington University National Law Center in Washington, D.C. and received her Juris Doctorate in 1986.
NICHOLAS S. PENN
Mr. Penn is one of the managers of the transactional practice at Leftwich & Ludaway, LLC. He has worked on a wide range of transactional matters including the disposition of federal government assets through bulk and individual sales, structured sales, and securitizations; municipal bond issuances and corporate acquisitions and sales. Mr. Penn advised the U.S. Small Business Administration in connection with its loan sales program for performing, subperforming and nonperforming business and disaster assistance loans. He has represented the SBA in connection with the seven loan sales to date. In aggregate, these sales have resulted in the disposition of approximately 165,000 business and disaster assistance loans with a total unpaid principal balance of approximately $5.9 billion.
Mr. Penn also advises the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on HUD’s multifamily and single family mortgage loan sales. Since 1995, he has represented HUD in connection with many single family and multifamily asset disposition sales of mortgage loans with an aggregate unpaid principal balance of approximately $6 billion. Mr. Penn supervised or worked on the majority of transactional matters that the firm handled for the Resolution Trust Corporation, including a series of eight bulk loan sales involving thousands of primarily performing whole loans and participations held by more than two hundred RTC institutions, some of which were serviced by RTC and some serviced by other non-RTC institutions; a transaction to dispose of several hundred real property assets and non-performing commercial loans that were either environmentally impaired or burdened with special resource issues such as wetlands; the sale of various partnership interests held by a wholly owned subsidiary of a failed thrift institution; and the review, as either oversight or due diligence counsel, of the assets and liabilities of approximately fifty subsidiaries at various failed thrift institutions and the preparation of disposition recommendations regarding the assets of such subsidiaries.
THOMAS D. BRIDENBAUGH
Specializing in corporate and real estate practice, Thomas represents both private developers and governmental entities in connection with a wide range of real estate and development transactions across the Mid Atlantic region. He has served as development counsel for several District of Columbia government agencies, for construction of projects ranging from the Washington Convention Center, The Washington Nationals Baseball Stadium, an numerous public school new construction and renovation projects. Mr. Bridenbaugh’s work has included the assembly and acquisition of property and subsurface support rights; assistance in connection with land use and street closing issues; negotiation of infrastructure agreements; preparation and management of requests for proposals; negotiations with the construction, architectural and engineering firms.
Mr. Bridenbaugh has represented both government and private clients in a number of public/private redevelopment partnerships. Several years ago, he successfully represented a non-profit developer in connection with the renovation and resale of a public housing project located in the District of Columbia. There, he negotiated a design-build-finance agreement to renovate the public housing project. The agreement contemplated that the developer would rehabilitate the project and resell condominium units to low income individuals. More recently, he has also represented the Prince George’s County Housing Authority in the negotiations related to the creation of a public/private partnership to redevelop a multi-family housing project. The development plan contemplated that the site would be redeveloped as a mixed use site funded, in part, by low-income housing tax credits.
O’NEIL S. KING
More than 20 years as a defense attorney in Maryland and the District of Columbia; handing all aspects of the litigation process from discovery to appeals. Litigation practice has included products liability, medical malpractice, insurance coverage, personal injury, breach of contract/warranty; and employment matters.
Mr. King has extensive trial experience in both Maryland and the District of Columbia, and has served as an arbitrator with the Superior Court Alternate Dispute Resolution Program. He also does private mediations and arbitrations. He is AV rated in Martindale Hubbell. He is a graduate of New York University School of Arts and Science and New York University School of Law; where he served as an Editor of The Review of Law and Social Change.
KIM KENDRICK
The Honorable Kim Kendrick, of Counsel with the law firm of Leftwich & Ludaway LLC, has spent more than 20 years engaged in the practice of law and in public service, including as an attorney in several federal agencies, among which are the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
In 2004, Ms. Kendrick joined President George W. Bush’s administration and worked for him at HUD as Senior Counsel to the Secretary. In that role she was responsible for providing legal advice and counsel on a variety of legal and non-legal matters, including issues related to the Government Sponsored Enterprises, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, complex procurement issues, and personnel and staffing matters. In 2005, she was nominated by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as an Assistant Secretary for HUD, with responsibility for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. As Assistant Secretary, Ms. Kendrick was charged with enforcing the federal Fair Housing laws, developing and implementing a $75 million budget, and supervising a nation-wide staff of approximately 600 employees.
SHERRY F. BELLAMY
Sherry F. Bellamy is Vice President of L&L Consulting LLC, with expertise in management consulting, executive coaching and diversity consulting. She is currently part of the L&L team providing organizational management advice to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Sherry also serves as of Counsel with the law firm of Leftwich & Ludaway LLC, the parent company of the consulting practice, and her legal work includes litigation and regulatory matters.
Ms. Bellamy has extensive experience with philanthropic board service, presently serving as a director for Johns Hopkins Medicine, where she is a member of the Audit Committee and the External Affairs Committee. She is also Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C. and a member of the Board of Directors of Cardinal Spellman High School, her alma mater, in New York City.