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New York, Us

New York, Ny, Us

KANERAI is the leading provider of highly scalable structured finance trading and investment analytics and enterprise data software and solutions for the financial services industry.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Premier, Inc. & Gnyha Ventures, Inc., New York, NYPremier is a healthcare improvement company and alliance of approximately 3,900 U.S. hospitals and 150,000 other providers. Premier, Innovatix, and Essensa provide $44+ billion in combined annual purchasing volume. GNYHA is the for-profit arm of the Greater New York Hospital Association.Senior Corporate Counsel, Premier, Inc. (2016 - Present)Assistant General Counsel, GNYHA Ventures, Inc. (2011 - 2016)I was first hired for GNYHA Ventures and promoted five years later to Senior Corporate Counsel of Premier as part of its acquisition of Innovatix and Essensa, two continuum-of-care GPOs, from GNYHA. I manage the day-to-day legal matters of Premier’s non-acute GPO business with $295 million in annual gross revenue.I have advised Innovatix/Essensa’s CEO, John Sganga, and other members of the leadership team, on legal matters and become a trusted member of the senior leadership team. I draft and negotiate group purchasing agreements with vendors in multiple industries as well as agreements with GPO members in various businesses and trades. I played a key role in negotiating and drafting agreements for the sale of Innovatix and Essensa to Premier, led their successful integration, and drafted and negotiated agreements and performed 100% of the legal work for the sale of GNYHA Venture’s mobile technology subsidiary, Happtique, to SocialWellth with no outside legal counsel.My responsibilities include ensuring compliance with federal anti-kickback statute and safe harbor provisions, codes of conduct, and internal contracting and operational policies and developing and delivering training for non-legal staff. I was a member of the team that negotiated a joint venture with New Tech Computer Systems Inc. to license its pharmacy software services under a private label agreement for sale to Innovatix members.

As a corporate attorney in private practice, my focus was on general corporate, mergers and acquisitions, entrepreneurial, venture capital, and securities law with a secondary practice in litigation, antitrust, bankruptcy, and patent law. I performed contract work for various large law firms and held of-counsel positions at two smaller firms.I helped clients develop structures for attracting venture capitalists, drafted complex LLC agreements with various types of preferred interests, and provided advice to startup companies on ideal formation strategies. I was also a senior associate on a $300 million acquisition.

Founded Park Advisory to trade in the rapidly growing bank-owned real-estate market (REOs) by acquiring pools of REOs from banks and selling them at auction. Helped develop a model for valuing homes that had been foreclosed and were owned by banks. Drafted contracts for the purchase and auction of pools of REOs. Drafted and negotiated non-disclosure, non-compete and non-circumvent agreements.

New York, Ny, Us

In this position, I helped clients with acquisitions, dispositions, private investments in public equity (PIPEs/financings), high-yield offerings, and exchange offers in a variety of industries including wireless communications, defense, restaurant, apparel, and shipping. I prepared and negotiated multiple corporate agreements, led a team of attorneys on all aspects of M&A and PE transactions, ensured the concerns of clients’ business and legal teams were addressed, and trained and developed junior associates I managed the acquisition of the assets of Georgia-Pacific’s building products distribution business for BlueLinx Corp. (for Cerberus Capital Management L.P.) and led the integration and licensing of a fleet of 900+ trucks and trailers in 50 states. In addition I served on the firm’s SOX Committee and managed high-yield offerings, exchange offers, and Private Investment in Public Equity (PIPE) transactions for clients such as The Wornick Company and Cerberus.

New York, Ny, Us

I was hired full time after serving as a Summer Associate to participate in transactions in multiple industries, including manufacturing, freight forwarding, logistics, software, real estate, franchising, internet, and travel. I played a key role in the negotiation of terms for various acquisition and disposition transactions and served as the firm’s primary contact with clients and opposing counsel.

Worldwide, Oo

In this early role, I audited financial statements of multiple financial institutions and other large clients and prepared reports and variance analyses on balance sheets and income statements of companies targeted for acquisition.

J.D., Cum Laude, 1999, Law

Bs In Economics, Cum Laude, Concentration: Accounting & Entrepreneurial Management, 1994