Bao Nguyen

Biography

Bao Nguyen is Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief of Staff of Flagstar Financial, Inc. and of its bank subsidiary, Flagstar Bank. Prior to joining Flagstar in April of 2024, he served as a Partner for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP where he advised global and regional financial institutions, fintech and digital asset companies and private equity firms on the regulatory aspects of complex transactions, charters, compliance matters and enforcement issues. Before that, he served as Principal Deputy Chief Counsel at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

Earlier in his career he served as Acting Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as Senior Counsel at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and as a Banking Fellow in the U.S. Senate, negotiating key reforms to the U.S. regulatory framework as part of the Dodd-Frank Act. Nguyen received his BA from North Carolina State University and his JD from the UNC School of Law.