Tim Saunders

Group Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel

Tim is the Group Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel for Angel Oak Companies. In this role he is responsible for managing the firm’s legal affairs and regulatory compliance measures, as well as overseeing both Angel Oak Capital and Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions’ legal, risk, compliance and regulatory teams. He is also a member of the Angel Oak Enterprise Risk Management Committee.

Tim has over 30 years of legal experience with a broad practice across corporate, finance, banking, lending, capital markets, sales and trading, M&A, and private equity and credit, serving complex and sophisticated financial institutions. Before joining Angel Oak in 2023, Tim spent more than 20 years at Goldman Sachs, where he served as Managing Director and Associate General Counsel. In these roles, he oversaw legal and regulatory activity for the mortgages, commercial real estate, fintech, structured finance and consumer finance business units. Most recently, Tim served as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for Reverence Capital Partners.

Tim holds a B.A. in Political Science from Middlebury College, cum laude, and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School.