General Counsel

Summary

The General Counsel position is the Banks chief legal counsel and key member of the executive leadership team. They are responsible for overseeing and providing strategic guidance on all legal matters for a growing regional bank. These matters include bank regulatory compliance corporate litigation borrower litigation M&A contract negotiation corporate governance and loan documentation standards. This role is critical in supporting the banks multi-year strategic initiatives particularly in commercial lending M&A and strategic partnerships.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive and strategic legal counsel to the management team and board of directors.
• Responsible for effectively managing legal matters or overseeing specialized outside counsel.
• Responsible for overseeing all legal aspects of commercial and real estate lending including revolving lines of credit term loans equipment financial solar loan and lease financing construction loans and bridge financing.
• Advise on litigation strategy and manage outside counsel for general corporate litigation and borrower litigation / asset recovery cases.
• Oversee legal aspects of loan workouts foreclosures bankruptcies and restructurings in coordination with the Special Assets Department.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with all federal and state banking regulations including ECOA HMDA FCRA GLBA CRA and BSA / AML.
• Draft review and negotiate contracts loan documents and vendor agreements.
• Support the Credit Administration and Executive Credit Committee with legal risk assessments and policy development.
• Lead legal due diligence for new products services M&A and strategic transactions.
• Serve as corporate secretary and manage governance matters including board resolutions.

Additional Responsibilities

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position does not have supervisory responsibilities.

Minimum Qualifications

Competencies

Physical Demands

In general the following physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to allow differently abled individuals to perform the essential functions of the job.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Sunwest Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We work with staff members and customers without regard to race ancestry national origin sex marital status age religion medical condition handicap disability or veteran status.

Key Skills

General Counsel,Legal Case Management,Legal Drafting,Litigation,Intellectual Property Law,Legal Counsel,Legal Research,Securities Law,Employment & Labor Law,Real Estate Law,negotiation,Contracts

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1