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New York, NY, US

New York City Metropolitan Area

Work directly with the General Counsel and the Legal & Compliance team to provide legal advice to executives and company leadership in support of all business and operation segments and across a broad range of legal matters.

Port Washington, New York, United States

• Globally led 25+ person legal and compliance department for the Pall Industrial businesses, offering customers Filtration & Separation solutions with revenues exceeding $1.5 billion. Worked directly with business.
• Overseeing all legal and regulatory matters associated with the Company’s operations, including business unit counseling and support.
• Providing advice and counsel on business and contractual matters, including ensuring agreements are in compliance with laws applicable to the Company’s products and licensing.
• Building and managing the legal and compliance team, including interviewing, hiring, training and mentoring; conducting performance appraisals and facilitating the development of team members; and planning, assigning.

Port Washington, New York, United States

• Partnered with business leaders to negotiate, review and draft a broad range of transactional documents, contracts and other legal agreements on a global and local scale, such as complex strategic supply, distributor.
• Provided counsel on the scale-up, build-out and globalization of the eCommerce and Digital platforms.
• Assisted with due diligence and counseled on M&A, divestment and joint partnership opportunities.
• Managed employment matters, provided counsel to the HR department and businesses on policies and procedures and handled employee relations, investigations and litigation.
• Directed dispute resolution, lawsuits, and arbitrations and ensured the organization appropriately managed its risk profile.

Paris, France

• On behalf of the new global Information & Technology Risk Management unit, areas of expertise/responsibility:
• Drafted Information and Technology standards, policies, controls and protocols across the global organization to meet current/emerging regulatory and compliance requirements and best practices.
• Developed and established third party resiliency and information risk management protocols to drive local entity program adherence to internal and external requirements.
• Drove creation and implementation of a global process formalizing technology issue and exception management; responsible for authoring and publishing second line opinions on significant technology projects and.
• Directed Information and Technology policy lifecycle management, managed the global information risk governance board, and provided risk advice to executive and senior leadership on critical issues including Cyber.
• Structured, staffed and managed the newly-created team as the formal second line of defense for global Information and Technology risk across AXA Group.

New York City

• On behalf of the new Employee Benefits business unit in the US, areas of expertise/responsibility:
• Oversaw strategic and tactical business development to move unit from business plan to bona fide market participant in the US with multi-million dollar revenue growth.
• Led the growth and development of a diverse team of internal recruits and external subject matter experts from 4 employees to over 70 across HQ, Administration, Distribution, Product, Operations and Technology divisions.
• Served as central point of contact between unit and executive/senior management, external consultants, third-party partners and other key stakeholders.
• Designed, developed and ensured execution of critical project management plans across all work streams.
• Managed $20M direct budget and coordinated with IT on $50M+ spend of IT budget on client-driven streamlined technology platform.

New York City

• Managed team of 14 attorneys and paralegals in the defense and prosecution of litigation and claims throughout the US, including multi-jurisdictional class action and mass action suits involving commercial/contract.
• Directed team in handling all aspects of high-stakes matters, including selection and retention of outside counsel and implementation of practical case management plans that maximized opportunities for favorable.
• Individually headed Company response to significant regulatory and internal investigations, and led defense of large-scale, industry-wide litigation including market timing, mutual fund, retained asset account.
• Strategic advisor for executive/senior management and colleagues throughout the Company.
• Negotiated and collected tens of millions of dollars in settlements with D&O, E&O, indemnity and other third party insurance carriers.
• Established annual eight-figure outside counsel budgets and internal resource requirements, ensured team, law firms and consultants adhered to targets and alternative fee arrangements.Other Key Areas of Responsibility:

New York City

~ Representative Contributions ~Litigation and Employment Law ManagementLaw Department ManagementRegulatory and Compliance CounselingStrategic Business CounselingCorporate InitiativesOperational Excellence

New York City

Experience in all aspects of general commercial litigation practice, with emphasis in white collar and securities investigations and antitrust matters.

New York City

Assisted the Judge in all phases of civil matters before the Court.

Juris Doctorate

Activities and Societies: Executive Notes & Comments Editor, Brooklyn Law Review. Member, Moot Court Honor Society.

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science And Government