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Baltimore, Md, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

As a member of the Airbnb Payments legal team, advised the payments product and payments partnership team on commercial matters related to negotiations with vendors, including third party service providers connected to Airbnb’s payments business unit. I coordinated the integration and implementation of third-party payment methods for guests in new geographies (across Southeast Asia) in cooperation with legal and business stakeholders.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Developed, led, and mentored a team of 13 lawyers and paraprofessionals in support of PayPal’s Global Sales Team, specifically PayPal’s Global Accounts, North America Enterprise, Channel Partner and Marketplaces sales teams, responsible for counseling and advising on all aspects of commercial deal negotiations with merchants, partners, and marketplaces. Responsible for a portfolio of 100+ global accounts and thousands of enterprise, channel partner and marketplace partners contributing significantly to PayPal’s total payment volume.Collaborated across functional groups and departments within the legal team and the broader PayPal business to globalize, standardize and automate the legal team’s support of PayPal’s Global Sales Team, resulting in more than 75% of all contract requests moving to lower cost, external resources. As a result, PayPal’s internal legal team could focus on the most strategic, revenue-generating matters. Built lasting relationships with stakeholders across the PayPal organization including sales, finance, pricing, and risk and compliance, acting as a trusted partner to the business by understanding their business objectives and working toward mutually beneficial solutions that balanced risks and benefits. Helped drive over $1B in incremental annual revenue through cross-functional pricing actions.

As associate general counsel for Millennial Media, the leading independent mobile advertising platform company I reported to Millennial's general counsel, and I acted as the front-line legal resource for Millennial's securities law compliance and disclosure, corporate finance and strategy, human resources and equity compensation, strategic commercial transactions, business development and corporate secretarial functions. Additionally, I became familiar with Millennial's products and product development, intellectual property matters and its strong and growing relationships with advertisers and mobile application developers. I interacted with the Millennial team across every discipline.

San Jose, Ca, Us

After PayPal acquired Bill Me Later, where I had worked for over a year, I became director/corporate counsel and part of the PayPal (North America) Legal Team. Within that broader team, I was a member of the Commercial Group which consisted of 10-15 lawyers and para-professionals. I reported to the associate general counsel for Bill Me Later (formerly, BML's general counsel).In this role, I negotiated strategic agreements with PayPal merchants, strategic partners and vendors. I sought out and thrived on transactions involving unique and complex legal, technological and operational issues. I worked with some of PayPal's most sophisticated and integral merchants and business partners, and I advised many of PayPal's most talented and professional sales and business development personnel.I continued to draw on my corporate finance and securities expertise while at PayPal and within the broader eBay group by interacting across functional groups and departments within the legal department. I supported eBay and PayPal's efforts to acquire and partner with complimentary businesses by serving on cross-organizational teams that acquired a number of companies (Where, Zong, Magento). Following eBay's acquisition of Magento, I led the legal department's integration efforts and served as interim corporate counsel for Magento as it worked to integrate into eBay's X.commerce platform, leveraging my own experience with Bill Me Later's integration into the PayPal organization.

Timonium, Md, Us

I was hired at Bill Me Later as senior attorney--corporate and securities, and in this role I reported directly to Bill Me Later's general counsel. Then a late-stage, venture-backed company, I was the front-line legal resource for Bill Me Later’s corporate secretarial functions, corporate governance and corporate finance activities. Additionally, I negotiated a number of commercial agreements with strategic Bill Me Later merchants and vendors.In the fall of 2007, I worked on a cross-organizational team that consummated a fifth round of equity financing with an investment led primarily by Amazon.com, and I was involved in a related commercial transaction that integrated Bill Me Later as a payment form on Amazon.com. In the same timeframe, I was also involved in the renegotiation of Bill Me Later's $1 billion revolving credit facility with Citibank. Through the middle of 2008, I continued to negotiate strategic merchant agreements in support of Bill Me Later's continued expansion across the top 100 internet retailers along with my role supporting BML's corporate finance activities, which included early planning for an initial public offering.Through the middle of 2008, I was involved with BML's efforts to securitize its credit portfolio, but the headwinds growing in the financial markets, especially the consumer credit markets, became increasingly clear as the year progressed. Beginning in the late summer of 2008, I was part of a cross-functional team that negotiated the acquisition of Bill Me Later by eBay's payments business for almost $1 billion.

In mid-2005, I was hired as deputy general counsel for MuniMae, an NYSE listed real estate/financial services company with approximately 500 employees in ten locations. In this position, I was the sole in-house attorney responsible for legal matters at the company, and I reported to MuniMae's general counsel, who served both in this role and head of the corporate practice at a Baltimore law firm. My team ultimately included two para-professionals and was responsible for monitoring compliance with federal securities laws and NYSE rules and regulations; advising on corporate law and governance matters, corporate finance transactions, employment and equity compensation matters, and mergers and acquisitions transactions; and overseeing all corporate secretarial functions.

London, England, Gb

At DLA, I was an associate in the firm's corporate and securities practice. My work at DLA focused on the representation of public and private corporate clients and investment banks. I advised my corporate clients on day-to-day affairs, corporate governance matters, financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities laws compliance and preparing 1934 Act reports. I advised my investment banking clients on equity and debt financings and related matters. Some of my representative clients included: PHH Corporation, The Ryland Group, Inc., TeleCommunications Systems, Inc., RBC Capital Markets Corporation, Merrill Lynch & Co., and CIBC World Markets Corp.

New York, Ny, Us

At Cahill, I was a part of the firm's corporate and transactional group, and I advised investment banks and corporate clients in public and private debt and equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, credit transactions and day-to-day corporate affairs. Some of my representative clients included: Deutsche Bank, Salomon Smith Barney, UBS Warburg, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Collins & Aikman Corporation, The Empire District Electric Company and Arch Capital Group Ltd.

Jd, Cum Laude, Banking, Corporate, Finance, And Securities Law

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), With Distinction, Economics