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-Practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, fund formation, venture capital, capital markets, general corporate counseling and governance, and commercial transactions. -Practice focuses on representing private equity firms, public and private companies, family offices, independent sponsors, search funds (including operating companies acquired by search funds i.e., entrepreneurship through acquisition), fundless search funds in cross-border and domestic (buy-side and sell-side) mergers, stock acquisitions, asset acquisitions, divestitures, licensing, strategic alliances, reorganizations, auctions, private equity investments, venture capital investments, minority investments, joint ventures, and other commercial transactions including sports related agreements for players and sponsors.-Practice includes advising physicians, medical practices, multispecialty practices, dental practices and other health care business lines, private equity firms in healthcare transactions, as well as Management Services Organizations. -Practice includes representing issuers and underwriters in connection with public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, including Rule 144A and Regulation S offerings.

Greater Chicago Area

-Practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, general corporate counseling and governance, and commercial transactions and representation. -Practice included representing Fortune 500 and other corporate clients in cross-border and domestic (buy-side and sell-side) public and private mergers, stock acquisitions, asset acquisitions, divestitures, licensing, strategic alliances, auctions, private equity investments, minority investments, joint ventures, and other commercial transactions.-Practice included representing issuers and underwriters in connection with public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, including Rule 144A and Regulation S offerings, consent solicitations, tender offers and exchange offers; drafting and reviewing Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1, S-3, 20-F, 6-K and advising companies on corporate governance matters and Reg FD compliance. -Designing process improvement plan for legal projects to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

Greater Chicago Area

-Worked closely with business teams on several projects.-Redesigned business workflows at several client engagements - such as insurers, equipment manufacturers, healthcare providers-Participated in business development activities & RFP drafting-Planned projects with senior management that included project scoping, work & team planning-Coordinated business requirement & design sessions between technical & business stakeholders-Analyzed policies, procedures, technical infrastructure & training necessary to support redesigned processes-Led multiple single & cross-functional teams from 10 to 100 people to achieve corporate goals & implemented & communicated strategic initiatives-Supervised large team of subcontractors responsible for developing applications-Ran a department at a client with a team of direct reports overseeing ambulatory revenue cycle-Led & directed work of client direct reports & Deloitte team members-Responsible for staffing, training & development of team members-Analyzed business rules & requirements on several projects-Evaluated existing business processes & re-engineered them for business units-Reapplied documented best practices-Provided senior management with year-end evaluations of direct reports for promotion & compensation consideration-Looked for vendor vulnerabilities that helped in negotiating better prices & contract terms-Appointed as the Deloitte Black Employee Network Consulting Lead for the Midwest Region

Argonne, Il

- Conducted system security/scalability analysis for system vulnerabilities- Developed applications using XML, PHP, PERL and SQL technologies on UNIX platforms

Champaign, Il

- Provided support to the production environment- Triaged production calls/tickets for a telecommunications client- Troubleshot CRM applications

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Management & Organizations

Graduated with Dean’s List honors.

Doctor Of Law (Jd)

Graduated with Dean’s List honors.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Dean’s List