Associate General Counsel – Impact Finance
U.S. Bank
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Minneapolis • Minnesota • North Carolina • United States
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Salary
💰 $170,255 - $200,300 per year
About the role
- U.S. Bank is seeking a senior attorney to lead legal support for U.S. Bancorp Impact Finance (IF)
- Align resources and competencies to optimize efficiency and support business growth
- Combine deep legal expertise with strategic leadership
- Enhance how we deliver legal services across IF’s key product areas: Affordable Housing, Community Finance Solutions, Environmental Finance, and Tax Credit Syndications
- Serve as a trusted advisor to IF leadership
- Manage outside counsel engagement on transactions and litigation
- Negotiate and oversee complex transactions
- Advise on workout and foreclosure issues as necessary
- Collaborate to deliver compliant, pragmatic, and business-ready guidance
Requirements
- Licensed by and in good standing with the appropriate state bar association or other appropriate state attorney licensing authority
- 12+ years of in-house, financial services institution, government or law firm experience in structuring tax credit investments and/or experience as project finance or structured finance attorney
- Experience documenting and negotiating tax credit investments, structured finance, or other commercial transactions, including commercial loan and tax credit documentation
- Demonstrated experience with state and federal tax credit laws and regulations and commercial lending laws
- Knowledge of regulatory environment applicable to community development or sustainable finance activities of financial institutions
- Advise on legal and regulatory issues impacting affordable housing, community finance, environmental finance, and tax credit syndications
- Proven ability to manage outside counsel and legal budgets effectively
- Well-developed leadership abilities and management experience
- Strategic thinker with experience in process improvement and excellent communication skills
- Ability to translate complex legal concepts into actionable business guidance across a diverse portfolio of investments and loans
- Ability to influence and build relationships across business and legal teams as well as external industry groups
- Diligent, detail-oriented, proactive and team-oriented with the desire to work on a broad variety of subject matters
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and exercise independent judgment and discretion
- Interest and curiosity with respect to the Bank’s business and operations
- Experience developing new products and services in a highly-regulated environment
Benefits
- Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
- Basic term and optional term life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Pregnancy disability and parental leave
- 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
- Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
- Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
- Adoption assistance
- Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
tax credit investmentsstructured financecommercial transactionscommercial loan documentationnegotiationlegal complianceregulatory analysistransaction managementworkout and foreclosure issuesprocess improvement
Soft Skills
strategic thinkingleadershipcommunicationrelationship buildinginfluencedetail-orientedproactiveteam-orientedindependent judgmentcuriosity
Certifications
licensed attorney