I worked closely with in-house attorneys and other professionals to support the corporate and legal mergers & acquisitions team. I assisted and coordinated international subsidiarycompliance, advised on international and domestic subsidiary governance, coordinatedand supported M&A transactions and related acquisition integration matters andmanaged various information resources which maintain relevant data for the legal department.Primary Responsibilities:• Manage activities for designated international and domestic subsidiaries, includingplanning and preparation of board and committee meetings, preparation of resolutionsand minutes, and maintenance of corporate minute books• Provide support and guidance to the directors and officers of international anddomestic subsidiaries on governance issues• Assist with preparation and filing of regulatory filings for domestic and internationalsubsidiaries• Prepare and file state annual and other corporate filings for domestic subsidiaries• Manage and provide oversight and support in the records and data integrity of allinformation pertaining to international and domestic subsidiaries• Provide support in developing and implementing corporate governance guidelines andsubsidiary governance processes across all international and domestic subsidiaries• Provide support for all legal aspects of merger and acquisition transactions and otherstrategic corporate transactions, including due diligence, document preparation,closings, and post-closing integration and administration of escrows and records• Manage development of corporate transactions database to track historical acquisitioninformation and deal terms• Provide training, mentoring, and education to internal teams, and design, recommend,and implement new processes and procedures to increase group efficiency andproductivity

Primary Responsibilities:• Managed signing and closing mechanics for transactions, including mergersub formation, signature page execution tracking, filing of mergerdocuments and creation and distribution of closing books• Created and maintained elaborate transactional document repositories for keyclients• Provided corporate organizational support for clients with complicateddomestic and international subsidiary structures• Monitored post-closing benchmarks and assist clients with requirements• Advised clients about online Virtual Data Room products (online contentrepositories for transactions)• Designed, opened, populated and managed VDR for sell side transactions• Monitored and summarized VDR for buy side due diligence process• Mentored team of junior corporate paralegals• Drafted corporate actions and various transaction related side agreements• Drafted and filed Section 16 filing documents for public company clients• Liaised with printers for annual reports, quarterly reports and 8-Ks• Prepared and filed required state annual reports for clients• Produced various internal newsletters and maintain various practice support databases

Created office protocol and staff policy manuals• Served as IT Liaison between staff and IT consultant• Developed and maintained Intranet and organization wide virtual calendar

Managed over 500 subsidiaries with state and federal annual filings,annual meetings and corporate restructuring• Maintained paper and electronic corporate document library• Developed reliable process to convert paper records to digital• Draft and file employee officer and director Section 16 filings• Prepare materials for quarterly Board meetings and annual Shareholdermeetings of public holding company

Managed Exhibit and Award program for mid-sized academic publisher• Organized and booked author tours• Traveled to various academic conferences to promote titles