• Responsible for all legal affairs related to negotiating, drafting, and reviewing vendor and employment agreements, intellectual property licenses, corporate policies, and contractor agreements of a men’s apparel brand.• Responsible for financial reporting and controller functions, including budgeting, cash flow forecasting, sales tax compliance, and accounts receivable collections.• Oversaw all human resource functions, including payroll, benefits, recruiting and training, policy development, and compliance.

Provided legal advice and other counsel to the Company in support of the strategic vision to enhance growth and profitability, and to shareholders in the execution of their personal and charitable initiatives, through efficient and effective tax, investment, corporate governance, and personal planning strategies.

• Counseled clients on the United States and international tax aspects of the structuring of film and television production transactions, the formation of private real estate funds, and entity formations.• Assisted clients in connection with Internal Revenue Service examinations and other state and local tax controversies, including sales and use tax audits.• Advised clients in connection with the negotiation and drafting of corporate documents, including non-competition, confidentiality, website development, stock option, partnership, and limited liability company agreements.• Represented clients in litigation matters, including investigations by the Federal Trade Commission.• Presented monthly tax updates to the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s Tax Section as a member of the Executive Committee on Taxation.• Served as tax counsel to various law firms, including the Raines Law Group LLP, Beverly Hills, California, and the Law Offices of Martin Blank, Los Angeles, California.

• Advised clients on the tax aspects and structuring of a wide variety of corporate and partnership transactions, including international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, financings, and dispositions. Representative experience includes drafting and reviewing fund prospectuses; merger and partnership agreements, including tax allocation, distribution waterfall and tax indemnity provisions; and tax opinions and certificates.• Counseled clients on the organization and operation of REITs. Representative experience includes drafting tax sensitive provisions of REIT charters and other organizational documents; monitoring ownership, asset, and income requirements; and analyzing the tax consequences of, and withholding requirements applicable to, distributions to domestic and foreign shareholders.• Represented sponsors, managers and investors on the tax aspects of the formation and operation of private equity and other collective investment vehicles and the investments made by those vehicles, including the analysis of the effects of such investments on UBTI- and ECI-sensitive investors.• Assisted clients in the resolution of tax controversies with the Internal Revenue Service, including the drafting and filing of private letter ruling requests and protest letters.• Volunteered in a Holocaust survivor project sponsored by Bet Tzedek to recover wages from the German government for work performed in European ghettos during World War II.

Conducted research and drafted legal memoranda and pre-trial motions.

Provided accounting, tax, and operational services for a startup high-end retail clothing store.

Intern in the accounting department.

Intern in the criminal division of the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.