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Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

Member of leadership team setting strategic direction and growth for the business. Oversight of client accounts concerning online platform regulation, cybersecurity and resilience, AI, data economy, ESG/sustainable finance, corporate social responsibility and financial services. Senior advisor to clients on EU geopolitical and trade relations with US, UK, China and India. Led European public affairs and comms for the Coalition for App Fairness, an international non-profit organisation representing 70+ members that advocates for freedom of choice and fair competition across the app ecosystem.

Brussels Area, Belgium

(formerly GPLUS)Communications and public affairs specialist in digital, sustainable and financial sector policies, including platform regulation, audiovisual policy, impact investment, mobility, ESG and corporate due diligence.Expertise in client coalition management, media/communications strategy and event/campaign development. Senior advisor on EU-UK Brexit negotiations and COVID-19 Europe reporting and private sector benchmarking.

Brussels Area, Belgium

EU Practice Lead driving Brussels practice expansion and growth of EU affairs business. EU advisor to clients in financial services, digital and energy sectors, providing counsel on prudential regulation, financial integration policy, online intermediaries, gig economy, digital tax and Energy Union. Brussels lead for advice on UK-EU Brexit negotiations and political risk heat map.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Member of Personal Insurance, General Insurance and Macroeconomics team. Analysed and advised on regulatory developments for insurers and reinsurers representing 95% of European premium income. Led expert working groups on financial security; insurtech/cybersecurity; environmental liability; disaster risk financing; sustainability/ESG and insurance contract law. Managed the 2015 "two degrees" campaign for Paris COP21. Representative and speaker at high level EU conferences, Commission expert groups and stakeholder events throughout Europe.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Associate to Life Sciences & Health practice, a top Legal 500 defence team for multinational pharmaceutical companies in multi-district product liability suits, liability claims concerning product marketing, failure to warn, design/manufacturing defects. Member of select team conducting major regulatory compliance review of a Fortune 100 company’s biologic drug market in Europe and Russia.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Complex litigation and dispute resolution concerning products liability, negligence, fraud, insurance coverage, insurance contract law and property issues. Counsel at arbitrations, trials, motion arguments and witness/expert depositions, and client case analysis reports. Drafted brief successful in dismissal of $25M claimed against firm client in the energy sector.

Clerk to the Honorable Mark I. Bernstein. Drafted legal opinions for judicial rulings on civil tort and contract law and conducted caselaw analysis for pretrial motions, post-trial decisions and jury instructions. Supported the court during trials, hearings, and in-chamber conferences.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Supported Assistant District Attorneys in Pre-Trial and Trial Division Units with filings and hearings in both Motions and Juvenile court. Trainee prosecutor in misdemeanor trial and evidentiary hearings. Prepared appellate briefs and assisted Appeals Unit with hearing preparation.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Researcher for income and estate tax issues. Prepared case materials for law school course instruction re policy developments and market growth relating to e-commerce and the relevant impact for international and domestic taxation of businesses.

Washington, Dc

Paralegal for KS International Trade Team. Discovery support and preparation of briefings for anti-dumping and countervailing duty cases in the semiconductor and steel trade industries. Analysed WTO cases and relevant trade developments between US and South Korea, Japan and Canada, and case documents at the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Court of International Trade.

Independent Study Program, European Law

European Economic Law, Constitutional Law of the European Union

Ll.M, International Business

Distinction for Dissertation - “Multinational Enterprises, Globalisation and Rebuilding Iraq: Capitalist Dream or Empire Nightmare?"

Jd, Law

Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Team (Honours), Villanova Juvenile Justice Clinic, President of American Civil Liberties.

Ba, Double Major In Government, Russian Studies

UVA Intense Russian Study Program, Alpha Phi Sorority