Peapack-Gladstone Financial and Peapack-Gladstone Bank appointed Katherine M. Dickenson, Esq., senior managing director and assistant general counsel. Dickenson will be primarily responsible for providing legal and transactional support to Peapack Capital, the company’s equipment leasing and finance subsidiary, and assisting the company’s general counsel in overseeing all legal affairs.

Dickenson joined Peapack after serving 21 years at Citizens Asset Finance, a division of Citizens Bank in Johnston, RI.  As in-house counsel for one of the largest financing and leasing companies in the United States, she delivered legal advice to the sales, operations, credit and documentation teams at Citizens Asset Finance, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating various forms of complex commercial agreements and analyzing and evaluating each client’s leasing and financing needs. Prior to Citizens, Dickenson served as regional manager and settlement agent at United One Resources, a title insurance firm based in Wilkes-Barre, PA, where she founded the Rhode Island office and oversaw all legal issues for satellite offices in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.