German Alberto Salazar
Vice President and General Counsel - AmeriFirst Financial, Inc.Germán A. Salazar is the Vice President and General Counsel of AmeriFirst Financial, Inc., a residential mortgage lender and servicer. He is responsible for the company’s federal, state, and GSE compliance, litigation strategy and management, corporate governance, internal investigations, contracts, regulatory examinations, employment law, advertising and marketing compliance, privacy, and intellectual property as well as managing its real estate transactions and leasing. Germán’s professional experience includes being the managing partner of a mid-size law firm as well as various in-house legal positions building and managing legal departments in mortgage origination and servicing companies. As General Counsel, he focuses on implementing continuous change processes to meet the pace of regulatory change in the consumer finance industry. Working closely with enterprise management, state and federal regulators, Germán builds business-focused compliance processes and effective risk-management as well as an open, inclusive and collaborative workplace. Germán received his Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University in 1987 and is licensed to practice law in Texas, Florida, and Arizona.
- Georgetown University Law Center
- J.D. | Law
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- University of Miami
- B.B.A. | Economics
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- University System of Georgia - Georgia Institute of Technology
- Mechanical Engineering
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- General Counsel
- AmeriFirst Financial, Inc.
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- Mortgage Lending: New Regulations, New Causes of Action
- Arizona Attorney Magazine (State Bar of Arizona)
- Civil Discovery Requests on Financial Institutions
- Arizona Attorney Magazine (State Bar of Arizona)
- Dodd-Frank Act Changes Affecting the Mortgage Industry, Phoenix, Arizonaq
- State Bar of Arizona
- Disparate Impact and Fair Lending, Phoenix, Arizona
- State Bar of Arizona
- Managing Litigation and Cost of Compliance in Heightened Regulatory Environment, ACI Res. Mortgage Litigation & Enforcement, San Francisco, California
- American Conference Institute
- In-House Perspective, Consumer Finance Class Actions & Litigation, Los Angeles, California
- American Conference Institute
- Los Abogados
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- College of the State Bar of Texas
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- Hispanic National Bar Association
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- Association of Corporate Counsel
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- Arizona
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- Florida
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- Texas
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- 5th Circuit
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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- Not Currently Accepting Clients
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Gov & Administrative Law
- Administrative Law, Election Law, Government Contracts, Government Finance, Legislative & Government Affairs
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- Mortgage Origination and Servicing Law
- Portuguese: Spoken, Written
- Spanish: Spoken, Written