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Miami, Florida, United States

Responsible for the legal and compliance department for Ultra Music Festival companies, specializing in music live events, festivals, headline shows, sponsorship and licensing deals. Counsel, negotiate and draft artist contracts, production agreements, and ancillary vendor contracts. Responsible for the handling of international royalty, co-productions, and different entertainment association agreements. Regulate and monitor Ultra Music Festival company’s intellectual property rights and supervise relationships with PROs. Ensure compliance of suppliers and clients with contractual requirements and enforce contractual terms as necessary, particularly with respect to ticket sales, venues, and sponsors. Supervise national and international legal complaints, in collaboration with outside counsel on multiple legal matters, and manage relationships with proper authorities. Serve as corporate secretary, drafting corporate documentation related to entity formation and governance for Ultra Music Festival's affiliated companies.

Greater Boston Area

Provided advice to senior management on legal matters affecting MAPFRE’s insurance division in the North America Region. Assessed known and anticipated risks to MAPFRE USA companies and created and implemented legal strategy to respond to and/or mitigate risks. Spearheaded a wide array of commercial transactions, including the negotiation, review, drafting and management of complex, multi-million-dollar contracts. Ensured compliance with contractual requirements and enforced contractual terms as necessary. Managed license applications, renewals and responded to regulatory inquiries of various governmental and regulatory agencies.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

General counsel of the North America region for MAPFRE Asistencia, provided general legal advice to senior management in legal matters relating to insurance, specialty risk insurance, reinsurance, and roadside, travel insurance and medical coordination assistance services operations, including commercial transactions, corporate structures, and regulatory compliance. Negotiated, reviewed, drafted and managed corporate contracts, including commercial agreements, terms and conditions, service agreements, independent contractor agreements, agency agreements, non-compete agreements, software license agreements. Developed and implemented company-wide policies, procedures, and programs to enhance workflow and ensure legal compliance. Served as corporate secretary, drafting corporate documentation related to entity formation and governance for MAPFRE Asistencia’s affiliated companies in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, such as corporate bylaws, resolutions, and minutes.

Part of Peckar & Abramson’s Latin American Practice Group, counseled international clients conducting business in the United States and Latin America on the procurement, negotiation, implementation, administration and post-completion phases of mega-projects, using both traditional and project finance/public-private partnership delivery models. Counseled and represented contractors, owners, other construction professionals, and sureties on construction and other civil litigation, arbitration, mediation, and dispute resolution board proceedings in a wide-array of matters, including design-defect claims, contract claims, construction lien claims, delay and impact claims, bond claims, and insurance claims.

Barcelona, Spain

Accepted engagements as a freelancer or subcontractor to a law firm based in Spain to represent their international clientele conducting business in the United States, and render services on certain transactional or general legal administration projects. Counseled clients on international commercial transactions, corporate structures and strategic alliances, procurement of real estate, immigration, protecting valuable trade secrets and patents, litigation, ADR, and trade and import/customs issues.

Drafted, reviewed and negotiated a wide variety of commercial contracts, including sales, supply, professional services, consulting, confidentiality, and delivery of services to providers. Advised and represented clients in a wide array of civil proceedings, including coverage disputes, researched and drafted motions and memorandums of law at trial level, argued contested motions before state courts, advised adjusters regarding coverage legal issues, appropriate action, case progress, and settlement ranges.

Responsible for research, data compilation, and drafting projects on numerous legal topics both domestic and international. Researched, translated and collaborated in a qualitative legal research comparative law publication focusing on survivors’ disputes concerning cremation, and cremated remains.

Conducted research across an array of issues in Spanish Civil Law, and composed legal memoranda on discrete issues of law. Performed contract review and actively participated in the drafting of legal documents deriving from the normal course of business of the firm’s corporate clients.

Master Of Laws - Llm, Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law

J.D., Law

Licenciatura, Derecho