Legal Specialist - Complex Business Structures

Texas Capital•Dallas, TX

10d

About The Position

Texas Capital’s legal department is a close-knit team working in a fast-paced professional environment. The team is transforming how it manages client business entity documentation and authority, particularly for complex client structures and ongoing authority management in commercial real estate, energy fund sponsors, private wealth, and treasury services. The relationship-level operating model aims to improve client experience and expertise, support onboarding and ongoing relationships, and eliminate redundant processes while preserving legal requirements. The Legal Specialist will review governing documents to confirm control and authority, maintain accurate systems of record, flag risks and exceptions, and coordinate with legal, compliance, operations, treasury, and credit teams. The role requires understanding complex business structures and governing documents, including nested and multi-level entities, real estate and infrastructure investment structures, investment funds and sponsors, family office and wealth management structures, and private equity structures. The position calls for practical problem-solving, resourcefulness, dependability, and strong communication and collaboration skills.

Requirements

Three or more years of experience with entity formation, constituent documents, fund structures, bank operations, or complex commercial KYC/onboarding.
Competence in legal document analysis, business organization governing documents, workflow coordination, and exception handling.
Ability to trace ownership and control structures through multiple layers, including funds, general partners, management companies, and special purpose entities.
Familiarity with corporate and business authority, beneficial ownership concepts, and KYC, KYB, and AML.
Responsible, conscientious, well-organized, and comfortable owning systems of record rather than relying on ad-hoc email threads.
Ability to coordinate across legal, compliance, treasury, operations, and credit teams.
Strong written communication, including concise emails and clear business documentation packets.
Initiative and ability to execute with appropriate urgency in a high-performing, client-focused, deadline-oriented environment.
Excellent listening skills and ability to work as part of a team.
Demonstrated clarity in written and spoken expression.
Organizational skills and attention to detail to handle diverse and concurrent assignments.
Ability to work at a computer for extended periods.
A JD or equivalent experience in financial services, entity formation and delegations of authority, transactional work, or other relevant experience will be strongly considered.

Nice To Haves

Experience in real estate finance, fund formation and administration, commercial banking onboarding, mortgage banking, or similar financial services.
Coachable, with a strong desire to learn and improve.

Responsibilities

Read, analyze, and confirm legal authority delegated under business organization constituent documents, including operating agreements, limited partnership agreements, corporate bylaws, articles of incorporation, trust agreements, resolutions, secretary certificates, and incumbency certificates.
Construct and maintain legal structure charts for complex structures, including nested entities, sponsor families, commercial real estate and private fund structures, and multi-SPV clients.
Build and maintain authority matrices distinguishing entity-level legal representatives, bank-authorized signers, treasury approvers, and digital preparers, with documented evidence and effective dates.
Prepare standardized entity documentation packages for account opening, lending clients, and delegated authority or entitlements.
Flag and route refresh triggers, including ownership or control changes, new general partners or trustees, expired documents, and credit structure changes, to internal stakeholders.
Track open items, coordinate customer document corrections, and maintain accurate systems of record.
Coordinate with legal, compliance, treasury, operations, and credit stakeholders on documentation and authority matters.
Contribute to policy development by establishing consistent client expectations, standardized document acceptance criteria, and authority escalation processes.
Raise exceptions and novel structures through appropriate approval channels.