GENERAL COUNSEL:Corporate Counsel with demonstrated success providing leadership and advice to businesses at every stage of the business life cycle. Direct legal aspects of corporate growth through M&A. Experience working with senior leadership teams to develop fundraising strategies, debt restructuring, and implement long-range planning. Instrumental lead in corporate bankruptcy, M&A, customer & supplier agreement negotiation, regulatory compliance (including EPA/EPR/CAA and renewable energy, corporate governance, and legal affairs in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Asia. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & COMPLIANCE:Collaborate with senior leadership teams, boards of directors and stakeholders at all levels of support to identify risk and build policies for corporate governance ensuring legal and regulatory compliance and supporting and advancing enterprise goals and objectives. Serve as Corporate Officer and recordkeeper. INTERNATIONAL & DOMESTIC BUSINESS RISK MANAGEMENT:Oversee complex, domestic, and international contract management including negotiations and execution. Established and/or dismantled foreign and domestic corporate entities from cradle to grave. Managed all organizational and structural documents. Managed domestic & International Bankruptcy Creditor claims and served on Creditors Committees.STAFF LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT: Successfully led multiple cross-functional teams involving internal and external stakeholders. Acted as head of employee engagement teams for Legal, Contracts, Compliance, and ITC; resulting in uncovering and solving considerable employee concerns and resulting in a measurable increase in employee satisfaction.• Lead counsel for Initial Public Offering; simultaneously established first US manufacturing facility.• Negotiated Lithium-ion EPR compliance programs nationwide for internal and external product use.• Lead Attorney for a $1.2BN acquisition involving multiple U.S. states and foreign entities.* Established formal data privacy architecture, addressing GDPR, US state laws, PIPEDA, PIPL and APA. • Directed and oversaw all aspects establishment of new entities in Mexico and the UK, including legal, regulatory, and HR structures.EXPERTISE:Corporate Law | International law | Government Contracting | Supply Chain | Contracting | Corporate Insolvency | Regulatory Compliance | Manufacturing | Aerospace | GDPR | Intellectual Property | Human Resources | Real Estate | M&A | Staff Development | Performance Management | Coaching & Mentoring | KERP | Equity & Inclusion