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Digna Recruitment · 8 hours ago

General Counsel

Digna Recruitment is partnering with a fast-growing national business-purpose real estate lending platform to appoint a General Counsel / Head of Legal. This senior legal role involves advising founders and senior leadership, managing legal risks, and overseeing loan documentation in a high-velocity environment.

Hiring Manager
Andreas Michael
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Responsibilities

Owning and reviewing business-purpose loan documentation end-to-end
Advising senior leadership on legal risk, compliance, and execution
Managing the preparation and review of loan documents at scale
Leading a small legal function (paralegal support)
Working closely with credit, operations, and leadership in a fast-decision environment

Qualification

Legal risk managementReal estate lendingLoan documentationCommercial awarenessLeadership

Required

Experience within private / non-bank real estate lending or adjacent platforms
Comfortable operating as the sole senior legal voice in a founder-led business
Practical, commercially minded, and non-corporate in style
Law firm backgrounds are welcome where combined with relevant in-house lending experience

Company

Digna Recruitment

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Digna is a specialist executive search and recruitment firm focused exclusively on Real Estate and Financial Services across the US and UK markets.

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
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