Description:
Texas Capital is built to help businesses and their leaders. Our depth of knowledge and expertise allows us to bring the best of the big firms at a scale that works for our clients, with highly experienced bankers who truly invest in people's success — today and tomorrow.While we are rooted in core financial products, we are differentiated by our approach. Our bankers are seasoned financial experts who possess deep experience across a multitude of industries. Equally important, they bring commitment — investing the time and resources to understand our clients' immediate needs, identify market opportunities and meet long-term objectives. At Texas Capital, we do more than build business success. We build long-lasting relationships.
Texas Capital provides a variety of benefits to colleagues, including health insurance coverage, wellness program, fertility and family building aids, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans with a generous 401K match, paid leave programs, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO).
Headquartered in Dallas with offices in Austin, Fort Worth, Houston, Richardson, Plano and San Antonio, Texas Capital was recently named Best Regional Bank in 2024 by Bankrate and was named to The Dallas Morning News' Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex Top Workplaces 2023 and GoBankingRate's 2023 list of Best Regional Banks. For more information about joining our team, please visit us at www.texascapitalbank.com.
Responsibilities:
- Draft, review, and negotiate bank and investment bank contracts and documents, including NDAs, engagement letters, broker fee agreements, and investment bank forms and documentation.
- Review transaction documents including loan agreements, M&A agreements and capital markets disclosure documents.
- Assist with review of business entity governing documents and resolutions for establishing legal authority to act.
- Prepare for and participate in new product, line of defense, risk and control meetings, as appropriate.
- Plan and execute special projects on behalf of the Legal Department, such as investment bank reviews, compliance assessments, etc. as directed from time to time.
- Provide legal support to review policies and procedures for legal and regulatory requirements for the bank and the investment bank.
- Draft, negotiate, and manage vendor contracts in a manner that comports with regulatory guidance and optimizes strategic results.
- Liaise with other attorneys across the legal department and other control and support functions on legal, regulatory, risk, compliance, privacy and vendor management matters
- Assist in maintaining and updating bank and investment bank form documentation (including standard loan document).
- Review requests for outside counsel engagement and review legal invoices for compliance with outside counsel guidelines.
Qualifications:
- Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school; admitted to the State Bar of Texas and eligible to practice in-house in Texas.
- Minimum of 0-2 years legal experience in finance or banking industry with general knowledge on transaction banking.
- Experience with reviewing NDAs, engagement letters, loan agreements, and other bank and investment bank related agreements and documents.
- Experience with contract law, including structure of contracts and contract life-cycle management
- Knowledgeable about laws and regulations applicable to financial institutions
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Self-starter who understands executing with urgency and has an ability to comfortably work in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a team player.
- Demonstrated clarity in written and spoken expression.
- Organizational skills and attention to detail required to handle diverse and concurrent assignments.
- Must be able to work at a computer for extended periods of time.
- Must be willing to work in office from the Texas Capital Center in Dallas, Texas.
