SEC Form 4

FORM 4		UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940	OMB APPROVAL OMB Number: 3235-0287 Estimated average burden hours per response: 0.5
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* ROSS WILBUR L JR (Last) (First) (Middle) 319 CLEMATIS STREET ROOM 1000 (10TH FLOOR) (Street) WEST PALM BEACH FL 33401 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol BankUnited, Inc. [ BKU ]	5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director X 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
	3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year) 02/24/2012
	4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year) 02/28/2012	6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share	02/24/2012		A		100(1)	A	$0.00	50,062(2)(3)	D
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share	02/14/2012		A		0	A	$0.00	13,671,169(2)(4)	I	See Footnotes(2)(4)

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

1. Issued pursuant to the terms of the BankUnited, Inc. 2010 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan.

2. Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. disclaims beneficial ownership of any securities except to the extent of his pecuniary interest therein.

3. WLR IV Parallel ESC, L.P. ("Parallel Fund") holds directly 49,962 shares of common stock. Invesco Private Capital, Inc. is the managing member of INVESCO WLR IV Associates LLC, which is in turn the general partner of Parallel Fund. WL Ross & Co. LLC is the investment manager of the Parallel Fund. Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of WL Ross & Co. LLC.

4. WLR Recovery Fund IV, L.P. ("Fund IV") holds directly 12,440,575 shares of common stock. WLR/GS Master Co-Investment, L.P. ("WLR/GS Fund") holds directly 1,230,594 shares of common stock. Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of WL Ross & Co. LLC and the managing member of El Vedado, LLC, the general partner of WL Ross Group, L.P., which in turn is the managing member of WLR Recovery Associates IV LLC and WLR Master Co-Investment GP, LLC. WLR Recovery Associates IV LLC is the general partner of Fund IV and WLR Master Co-Investment GP, LLC is the general partner of WLR/GS Fund. WL Ross & Co. LLC is the investment manager of Fund IV and WLR/GS Fund.

Remarks:

	/s/ Douglas J. Pauls, as Attorney in Fact	02/28/2012
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY


	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of John A. Kanas, Douglas J. Pauls, and Rajinder P. Singh or any
of them signing singly, and with full power of substitution, the undersigned's
true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

	(1)	prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf,
and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form ID,
including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate
to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic
filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

	(2) 	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's
capacity as an officer and/or director of BankUnited, Inc. (the "Company"),
Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

	(3) 	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5,
complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such
form with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

	(4) 	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to,
in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being
understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact's discretion.

	The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

	This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 28th day of February, 2012.


						/s/Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.