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Norwalk, CT, US

Stamford, Connecticut, United States

• Served as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of a rapidly growing, alternative aviation asset manager with over $2.4 billion of assets with offices in Stamford, CT; Dublin, Ireland; Singapore.
• Managed legal team and outside counsel relationships and annual legal budget.
• Served as board member and advised Managing Partners and owners on corporate governance, and shareholder issues, covenant compliance, working capital financing and employment matters.
• Assisted US and Singapore office setup, vendor selection, and regulatory compliance matters.
• Led SEC registration for investment adviser subsidiary and managed compliance consultant.
• Handled contract management and served on deal team for private credit and equity JV investments.

Stamford, Connecticut, United States And Tysons Corner VA

• Served as General Counsel managing all legal functions for a family office-backed holding company with aircraft financing and leasing entities, an airborne ISR business, and a U.K.-based cargo airline.
• Oversight of contracts review, drafting, and negotiation, corporate governance, equity and debt capital- raising, and strategic growth plans.
• Successfully resolved vendor, shareholder, and employee litigation and arbitration.
• Led diligence and acquisition of a UK-based cargo airline and new credit facility for the acquisition.
• Worked with founder, bankers and lenders to refinance stressed credit facility during COVID upheaval.

Stamford, CT

• Served as Counsel in the Corporate Department advising investment management clients, with a focus on single family offices as well as private funds and their investors, GPs/sponsors and principals with transactional.
• Key practice management team member of Family Office Practice helping the team achieve peer recognition, industry awards, new clients and valuable referral sources.
• Negotiated, documented and closed dozens of control and minority equity investments and co- investments across various industries (tech, energy, transportation, real estate, financial services).
• Customized GP and fund investments on behalf of large family offices, institutional investors and UHNW individuals allocating to private credit, real estate, infrastructure and buyout strategies
• Negotiated and drafted complex transaction documentation for M&A, fund formation, growth equity financings, asset-financings, VC and seed capital financings.
• Provided regulatory advice for private fund managers (e.g., Advisers Act, ‘33 Act).

White Plans, NY

• Served as General Counsel and Partner of lower middle market private investment firm focused on special situations change of control investments.
• Sourced investments and negotiated transactions with co-founder, including equity and debt deals.
• Handled day-to-day legal functions, due diligence; managed outside counsel, administrative issues.
• Negotiated, structured, documented and closed distressed/turnaround transactions.
• Managed administrative matters (office and tech set ups), employee termination and disputes.
• Led bankruptcy process for one portfolio company to enable clean exit with no trailing liabilities.

• Served as General Counsel of SEC-registered international alternative asset manager with offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia and over $2 billion of assets under management.
• Leveraged broad corporate legal and business experience to advise Board of Directors and senior management on governance, operational and transactional matters, including M&A; private fund raises, structured notes.
• Negotiated and documented joint ventures and capital raises in Singapore and China for private funds investing across the capital stack (preferred and common equity, mezzanine and senior debt).
• Partnered with HR teams to handle rapid headcount increase from 20 to over 125 in three years, including acquisition of teams and contentious senior employee terminations/exits.
• Advisor to Founder/CEO on executing rapid growth plan, yielding successful sale of business.
• Oversaw SEC, FINRA and CFTC compliance in tandem with CCO. Handled audits successfully.

• Associate in Corporate Department. Focused on private equity, corporate finance, securities and M&A.
• Broad corporate transactional practice with extensive exposure to private equity, M&A, corporate finance, VC, real estate and public and private securities offerings.
• Provided day-to-day counsel to sports media company and its subsidiaries.
• Negotiated and drafted a broad range of sophisticated transaction documentation.

J.D., Law

Ba, Major: English

Activities and Societies: Member- Alpha Epsilon Phi Dean's List- 1991-1994