Richard Daingerfield is a Consultant of the Firm. He is a member of the New York bar and has practiced banking and finance law in the US for more than 35 years.
He began his US legal career at a prominent New Jersey law firm in 1980. He joined the in-house legal department of National Westminster Bank in New York City in 1986. At NatWest, his positions included Senior Vice President & General Counsel of NatWest NJ, Senior Vice President & Corporate Secretary of NatWest Bancorp and Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer of NatWest Holdings. After The Royal Bank of Scotland acquired NatWest in 2000, he served as Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer of the RBS NY Branch and, after an RBS-led consortium acquired ABN AMRO in 2007,he also served as Executive Vice President & General Counsel for the US operations of ABN AMRO. From 2010 until he retired in June 2014, he served as Executive Vice President & General Counsel of Citizens Financial Group, Inc., a $160 billion bank based in Boston.
Currently, Mr. Daingerfield serves on the board of directors of Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation, a $4 billion bank holding company in New Jersey. He chairs that board’s risk committee and is a member of its executive committee and audit committee. In addition, Mr. Daingerfield teaches the Commercial Lending Law course in the Boston University School of Law’s Graduate Program in Banking and Financial Law, for which he received an award for Excellence in Teaching in May, 2015.
Together with Guantao Law Firm Partner Ying Yin, Mr. Daingerfield is the co-author of a book entitled: “Commercial Lending Law and Documentation in the United States” that was written in both English and Chinese and is published by Law Press China.
Mr. Daingerfield has held leadership positions in several professional associations, including:
• Member of the Banking Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association
• Chairman of the Commercial and Real Estate Lending Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Banking Law Committee
• Founder and former chairman of the Council of the General Counsels of Foreign-Owned US Banks
• Member of the Institute of International Bankers’ Legislative and Regulatory Policy Committee.
Mr. Daingerfield earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with highest honors from Rutgers College and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.