Provide legal support to Guggenheim Securities for technology transactions, consulting agreements, Human Resource (HR) legal matters. Oversee all vendor contracts for Guggenheim Securities, including technology, market data, data privacy, consulting, and non-IT agreements. Provide legal support for the firm's Artificial Intelligence initiatives, including contracting and corporate governance. Work on the redesign of the Contract Management programs for compliance and risk mitigation.

Negotiated all IT infrastructure contracts, such as data centers, servers, storage, networks, hardware and software. Collaborated with IT management to develop technology acquisition strategies and evaluate emerging technologies. Promoted in June 2018 to lead the negotiation and execution of technology, data, and consulting contracts for Investments, Securities, and Investment Banking businesses, including Sales & Trading, Equity Research and Marketing/Branding departments.

Managed a broad spectrum of legal matters to support business operations, including sourcing and negotiating contracts for data centers/co-lo, cloud services, telecommunications, network/bandwidth, IP transit, content delivery network (CDN) agreements and partner referral programs. Emphasis on domestic and international data privacy and corporate governance issues to ensure compliance and strategic alignment. Led C-Level executive lead generation, sales and marketing efforts; generated leads and conducted sales meetings with CFOs, CIOs and CTOs. Developed and created sales and marketing materials to effectively communicate the company’s value proposition. Acted as a liaison with senior IT industry executives and represented the company at major trade conferences. Managed client engagements, interfacing with analyst teams to ensure successful project implementation exceeding client requirements.

Draft and negotiate technology transactions including hardware/software licensing, outsourcing, e-commerce, data center services, and systems consulting.

Assigned to Citibank, Legal/Technology & Intellectual Property GroupDraft and negotiate technology transactions and provide support for intellectual property matters, including hardware/software licensing, outsourcing, e-commerce, data center services and systems consulting.

Drafted and negotiated technology transactions including hardware/software licensing, outsourcing, e-commerce, web-site development/co-branded services, data storage and systems consulting for both the enterprise level and individual business units.Managed Major Transactions:$100M agreement for desktop/server support for financial advisor platform for 22,000 desktops in 630 branches.Web-hosting facilities and services agreements to launch ML’s online-trading business applications.Led technology reviews for M&A activity – transactions included acquisition of Entergy-Koch’s energy-trading business, ABN AMRO's professional brokerage business and a Bankcard Joint Marketing agreement with MBNA America Bank, N.A. Worked with Investment Banking and Corporate Strategy to develop commercialization strategies for ML-proprietary tech platforms, structured equity investments with start-ups and developed strategic alliances/joint ventures. Resolved multi-million dollar vendor disputes, managed technology-related litigation and outside counsel.Served as Open Source Counsel - implemented firm-wide Open Source software policy. Led legal/technical implementation of a global software encryption solution for all data secured on ML-owned laptops – included import/export law review for 140 countries. Developed and implemented data privacy/electronic communication policies with business, legal and compliance groups.

Technology: Structure transactions/draft agreements for software licensing, hardware acquisitions, outsourcing, telecommunications and Internet-related services (i.e., web site construction and maintenance contracts, international domain name disputes), and multimedia development including rights acquisitions, licensing and distribution. Work on intellectual property protection, copyright issues, and employment contracts specifically tailored for technology companies.Corporate Finance: Structure asset-based financing and equipment leveraged leasing transactions for foreign and domestic financial institutions and airlines. Work on general corporate legal issues (i.e., corporate structure and governance).