Philippa Duncan
Director, Assistant General Counsel at Upstart
- Role
- Director, Assistant General Counsel at Upstart
- Location
- Jersey City, NJ, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Director, Assistant General Counsel
Feb 2024 — Present · New York, NY, US
Lead commercial team supporting Upstart’s Marketplace Lending and Lending Partnership teams.• Responsible for drafting and negotiating complex marketplace lending agreements with new and existing partners with a focus on minimizing true lender risk and ensuring operational consistency across MPL programs; led negotiations with key strategic partners.• Responsible for drafting and negotiating all lending partnership agreements with new and existing partners; brought on over 100 LPs since joining Upstart, managed roll out of new product lines.• Manage legal relationship with Lending Partnership and Marketplace Lending teams; effectively anticipate business needs and identify operational and contractual improvements.• Develop and scale processes to improve speed to close and enable sales and account teams to work autonomously with little legal involvement until negotiation.• Draft and maintain templates for MPL and LP agreements and work closely with internal stakeholders, including technical accounting, compliance, privacy, IT and others to ensure templates accurately reflect internal positions and effectively mitigate risk.• Manage two attorneys and provide guidance and mentoring to more junior lawyers and paralegals.
Education
University of Toronto - Innis College
Bachelor of Arts, English
New York Law School
Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, Law
2008 — 2011
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