Description:
Job Summary: The General Counsel will provide legal advice and support to the Healthcare Lending team with a primary focus on healthcare lending related products.Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain familiarity with healthcare lending-related activities and provide legal and regulatory consultation and advice on a wide range of commercial loans and practices
- Support internal lending staff in connection with business development and borrower engagement through negotiating and drafting agreements and transactions
- Engage in legal research and industry monitoring related to new and emerging lending related products and assist management in evaluating the risks and opportunities within the marketplace
- Interpret statutes, regulations, supervisory guidance, enforcement trends and case law developments applicable to lending business activities
- Collaborate with the compliance, audit and risk management staff on legal and regulatory matters impacting the lending function escalation and remediation of issues as they arise
- Effectively interface with external auditors and regulators and be a positive advocate for the company and its business plan and strategic initiatives
- Oversee the work of outside counsel in connection with any outsourced loan-related legal work
- Maintain a working knowledge of applicable state and federal banking laws and regulations as well as corporate and commercial laws and regulations relevant to consumer lending and commercial lending
- Collaborate with other members of the Legal Department in managing legal projects and provide reporting to management on the status of legal projects and strategic initiatives as needed
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- Law degree from an accredited law school required
- 10+ years law firm or in-house corporate legal / financial services industry experience required, with demonstrated success in working with business teams of varying organizational levels to achieve business goals
- Healthcare Lending experience preferred
- License to practice law (in good standing)
- Familiarity with and/or subject matter expertise in:
- Laws and regulations impacting consumer and commercial lending transactions as well as ancillary relevant laws
- Laws and regulations focused on financial crimes prevention, including the Bank Secrecy Act and related Anti-Money Laundering requirements (e.g., CIP/KYC requirements) and regulations of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
- Familiarity with laws and regulations impacting the regulation of federally insured depository institutions
- Familiarity with laws and regulations impacting commercial banking transactions, including the ability to engage in legal research in order to maintain knowledge of commercial and banking laws and regulations
- Ability to interface (both orally and in writing) with senior executives, business unit management and staff, state and federal regulators and officials, outside counsel, and significant business partners
- Ability to work with highly confidential and sensitive business information and to maintain high standards of confidentiality
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment to achieve department goals and objectives
- Ability to manage multiple and/or shifting priorities, and produce professional and accurate work product, sometimes under time constraints
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite, e.g. Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook
Position Requirements: The
requirements described 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 enable employees to perform
the essential functions. Work is conducted primarily in an office;
however, some positions may be conducted remotely via technology. While
performing duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required
for prolonged periods of time to:
- Sit or stand at a desk
- Walk, stoop down, crouch, kneel or bend over
- Use hands and fingers
- Utilize a computer monitor with visual acuity
- Operate technology and other office machinery such as printers, fax machines, scanners, etc.
- Communicate clearly both verbally and in writing with others
