Matthew Gunter is a senior attorney on the Lightning Docs™ team. Matthew's work focuses on building the business purpose mortgage loan documents that form the backbone of the Lightning Docs™ system, as well as maintaining the system for nationwide legal compliance, and specific client requests. Lightning Docs™ are the official loan documents of the American Association of Private Lenders (AAPL).

Matthew also serves as the ex officio member of AAPL's Government Relations Committee and in that role serves the business-purpose mortgage lending community to bolster relationships with regulatory jurisdictions and to help ensure regulations over the industry are limited and reasonable.

Prior to joining the Lightning Docs™ team, Matthew was an attorney in Geraci LLP's Banking and Finance practice group since April 2022, and had brought to the firm years of experience working as the General Counsel for a large private lender, leading teams of professionals in document preparation, closing support, underwriting, licensing and compliance, and foreclosure and loss mitigation management.