Associate General Counsel - Impact Finance

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever‑growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career.

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U.S. Bank is seeking a senior attorney to lead legal support for U.S. Bancorp Impact Finance (IF), aligning resources and competencies to optimize efficiency and support business growth. This role combines deep legal expertise with strategic leadership to enhance how we deliver legal services across IF’s key product areas:
Affordable Housing, Community Finance Solutions, Environmental Finance, and Tax Credit Syndications. The successful candidate will have significant subject‑matter expertise in community development and tax‑credit investments and 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, and collaborate to deliver compliant, pragmatic, and business‑ready guidance.

• 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 a 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.

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

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• We put people first.

In the U.S. Bank Law Division, we honor those values through our mission: “we guide our clients to remarkable results with expert legal counsel and ethical leadership.” Our commitment is evident in the work we do, not only for the Bank, but for our communities. The Law Division has received several awards for its pro‑bono contributions, including the Minnesota Corporate Pro‑Bono Council’s “Excellence in Pro‑Bono Award,” and we encourage our legal professionals to contribute time and expertise to pro‑bono work as part of their role.

In addition, the Law Division has been recognized for its leadership and engagement in inclusion initiatives.

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short‑term and long‑term…