Western Alliance Legal Head Delays Job Switch on Bank ‘Dynamics’

Western Alliance Bancorp’s Randall Theisen is postponing his departure from the position of chief legal officer by one quarter “given the market dynamics” in the banking sector, the company’s general counsel, Jessica Jarvi, said in an email.

Theisen, who joined Western Alliance as its first general counsel in 2006, had been scheduled to retire from his legal chief and corporate secretary roles in the first quarter of this year and take the newly created position of head of corporate affairs, the bank said in a statement last September.

While he now keeps the legal post for a longer period than ...