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.• Facilitated minority ownership change and helped resolve related business challenges.

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.

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 and regulatory compliance matters, including M&A, equity and debt financings, JV's as well as employment and compensation arrangements for principals and senior executives. • 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).

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, establishing offices in New York City, Beijing, San Francisco and Zurich. • 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.