About Natalie Margaret
Natalie Margaret Wetenhall built a legal career that bridges finance and private practice. She trained at a bilingual law school and then moved into roles at global financial institutions before starting her own firm. The arc of her work shows steady movement from in-house legal teams to law firm leadership.
Wetenhall earned her J.D. from McGill University Law School in 2001, completing the dual curriculum in English Common Law and French Civil Law. She earlier graduated from McGill with an honors B.A. in English Literature in 1997. That combination of legal systems and a humanities background shaped the way she approaches legal problems: attentive to language and structure, and comfortable handling issues that implicate different legal traditions.
Her early career placed her inside major financial organizations. In 2003 she joined JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., working in prime brokerage legal. She moved to Davis Polk & Wardwell as an associate in 2007 and then into the legal department at Credit Suisse in 2009. Those roles gave her direct exposure to transactional work, regulatory questions, and the legal mechanics of capital markets.
In 2014 she became managing partner of Evergreen Law Group, LLC. The move marked a transition from large institutions to leading a smaller, privately held practice. As managing partner she oversees the firm’s operations while drawing on the transactional and regulatory experience built earlier in her career.
Wetenhall is admitted to practice in New York, Oregon, the District of Columbia, and Washington. Those multi-jurisdictional admissions reflect a practice that often touches on matters crossing state lines and involving federal regulatory frameworks. Her background at international banks also means she is familiar with the documentation and compliance regimes common in financial services.
She has been a member of the American Bar Association since 2004 and belongs to the Multnomah Bar Association. Those memberships sit alongside her practical work and provide access to continuing education and professional networks relevant to both litigation-avoidance strategies and transactional law.
Colleagues describe her approach as analytical and pragmatic. She applies detailed transactional experience to problems that require coordination across different offices, regulators, or contractual systems. At Evergreen Law Group, LLC she manages client matters and the firm’s legal team. She maintains a practice focused on business and financial services law across her admitted jurisdictions.
