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• Leads the legal and compliance functions, ensuring adherence to all regulatory requirements.• Develops and implements comprehensive GRC programs tailored to client needs.• Provides strategic counsel on cybersecurity matters, including incident response and data protection.• Drives enterprise risk management initiatives to mitigate legal and operational risks.• Collaborates with executive leadership to support business growth and operational efficiency.

Kase Law specializes in assisting clients with data privacy, enterprise risk, and information security compliance. The practice focuses on guiding businesses through complex regulatory landscapes, ensuring adherence to data protection laws, and managing enterprise risk. We also provide comprehensive support for NIST and ISO-based SOC audits, helping organizations achieve and maintain compliance with industry standards.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Recruited from Axiom into world-class legal department for excellent performance and agile, practical style.• Led integration of $2.3 billion acquisition resulting in seamless business combination incorporating 103 senior living facilities into existing portfolio.• Designed and implemented company-wide digital “Speed to Lease” execution process that comprehensively standardized and modernized leasing operations, reducing typical execution period from weeks to a few days.• Tailored and modified Vena budgeting and forecasting software to meet company requirements, then piloted and implemented tool and new processes for legal expense budgeting and forecasting. Collaborated with financial analysis team to achieve precise insights into legal G&A spend enhancing company forecasting models.• Reimagined and rolled out updated, easy-to-digest legal and ethics policies, dramatically improving policy readability and compliance.• Closed hundreds of licensing and service transactions with practical, prolific approach, enabling business teams to effectively meet objectives and timing.• Designed and spearheaded third-party risk assessments with a focus on information- and cyber-security, significantly improving security measures and meaningfully reducing enterprise risk.

New York, Ny, Us

• Led highly complex public-public business spin-off of skilled nursing division, timely departing from high-cost senior living segment and substantially reducing financial, operational and legal risk.• Created and implemented outside counsel review and survey process substantially improving outside counsel responsiveness and fostering closer attorney-client communication.• Partnered with executives from Finance, Tax, Investor Relations, Information Technology, Human Resources and Asset Management to improve business practices and legal compliance.• Successfully negotiated and documented debt and equity finance transactions, vendor contracts, intellectual property license agreements and easement agreements.

• Created highly tailored and readable compliance programs, policies and procedures to comply with SEC requirements.• Guided senior managers through complex securities law regulation, reducing compliance risk for investment advisers and improving adviser-client communication.• Structured compliant compensation arrangements, enabling advisory business owners to incentivize investment management teams and achieve superior investment performance.• Trained employees to utilize advanced functionality of Office Suite and proprietary customer relationship management applications to standardize and scale company operations.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Represented clients in securities regulatory, syndicated equity finance and corporate governance and disclosure matters, including organization and operation of hedge funds and other private funds, private and public offerings of equity and debt securities and the formation and administration of limited liability companies, limited partnerships and joint ventures. Also counseled growth-stage clients in corporate mergers, acquisitions and restructurings.

Chicago, Il, Us

Represented clients in general corporate matters, mergers, acquisitions, corporate restructurings and private and public capital raising transactions. Assisted underwriters and issuers in securities offering and regulatory compliance. Drafted and negotiated agreements and disclosure documents for acquisition and capital raising transactions and corporate governance, including stock and asset purchase agreements, merger agreements, limited liability company agreements, shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, private placement memoranda and employment agreements.

J.D., Law

B.A., Political Science; German

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