Legal Specialist - Complex Business Structures

About the Role

Texas Capital is seeking a governance and documentation specialist to join our legal department. This role is crucial in transforming how we manage clients’ business entity documentation and authority, with a focus on complex client business structures, commercial real estate, energy fund sponsors, private wealth, and treasury services. The successful candidate will be responsible for onboarding and ongoing management of these structures, ensuring legal compliance, and improving client experiences.

Responsibilities

• Read, analyze, and confirm legal authority delegated under business organization constituent documents (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 business structures, including nested entities, sponsor families, commercial real estate, 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/entitlements.
• Flag and route refresh triggers (ownership changes, new GPs/trustees, expired documents, credit structure changes) to internal stakeholders.
• Track open items, coordinate customer document corrections, and maintain accurate systems of record.
• Coordinate across legal, compliance, treasury, operations, and credit stakeholders regarding documentation and authority matters.
• Contribute to policy development, setting consistent client expectations, standardized document acceptance criteria, and authority escalation processes.
• Raise exceptions and novel structures through appropriate approval channels.

Qualifications

• JD or equivalent experience in financial services, entity formation, delegations of authority, transactional work, or other relevant experience.
• 3+ years of experience with entity formation, working with constituent documents, fund structures, bank operations, or complex commercial KYC/onboarding.
• Domain experience is a plus: real estate finance, fund formation and administration, commercial banking onboarding, mortgage banking, or similar financial services experience.
• Competency in legal document analysis, business organization governing documents, workflow coordination, and exception handling.
• Ability to trace ownership and control structures through multiple layers (funds, general partners, management companies, special purpose entities).
• Coachable, with a strong desire to learn and improve.
• Familiarity with corporate and business authority, beneficial ownership concepts, and KYC, KYB, and AML.
• Responsible, conscientious, well-organized, and comfortable owning systems of record.
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to write concise emails and prepare logical, easy-to-understand business documentation packets.
• Initiative and ability to execute with appropriate urgency in a high-performing, client-focused, deadline-oriented environment.
• Excellent listening 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.
• Ability to work at a computer for extended periods of time.

Benefits

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
• Paid time off (PTO)

Texas Capital is an Equal Opportunity Employer.