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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Lead legal team operations across 6 continents, 40 countries instrumental in the expansion and revenue growth of organization by double digits year over year. Achieve a 99% success rate for deal closures. Perform risk assessments for all expansion opportunities, lead legal and privacy due diligence. Collaborate with C executives to determine desirability and implications of key business decisions. Manage legal staff conducting training and education on insurance, privacy, all related legal matters and cyber security.Instrumental part of team in the successful integration of 3 company acquisitions focused on privacy and broad range of legal matters. Review, negotiate and execute over 1000 SaaS and privacy contractual agreements to date. Collaborate with and act as advisor for Chief Information Security Officer in managing the complexities of privacy, security protection and compliance. Mentor team on the art of negotiations, problem solving and conflict resolution.

Cambridge, Ma

Responsible for serving as General Counsel drafting, executing and negotiating approx. 460 SaaS and privacy contracts. Role spans across 5 continents establishing terms with top 25 global pharmaceutical companies and over 160 health care organizations. Partner with senior management on strategic business matters. Evaluate and mitigate potential risks strategizing with Privacy, Security Compliance officer. Educate leadership and operational team on GDPR, HIPAA, personal data, anti-corruption and privacy laws. Co Chairman Data Trust Committee | Member, Privacy Committee. Partner with IT head to advise on cyber security, ransomware to prevent compromising high level data breaches and secure data.

Greater Boston Area

Diligently and efficiently reviewed and negotiated 25 – 30 legal agreements and contracts weekly in relation to clinical trials, Software as a Service agreements, federal grants, technology transfer and education agreements. Streamlined contract review process to turn maximize efficiencies. Provided practical legal advice to protect company interests on legal and business matters including strategy for approval to conduct research, potential conflict of interest disclosure requirements, theft investigations, internal corporate policies and compliance to ensure company secured research funding. Took measures to carefully assess and minimize risk resulting in no litigation and meeting requirements of all federal agency audits.

Boston, Ma

Quickly able to recruit, successfully identify top talent and provide high volume placement to legal community typically within 48 hours. Operated within a very competitive legal market. Identified and executed effective sourcing strategies to secure highly qualified candidates.

Framingham, Ma

Responsible for managing 25 – 30 claims within a given week. Successfully negotiated liability claims early in the process to reduce company legal fees and maintain integrity of brand. Provided oversight of outside counsel on sensitive litigation matters. Mitigated risk and reduced costs by taking preventative measures to eliminate potential hazards.

Greater Boston Area

Represented clients in a variety of litigation matters ranging from business agreements, commercial transactions, partnership disputes to probate. Proactively generating new business through referrals from satisfied clients resulting in increased profits of approximately 25% for the firm.

B.A., American Studies & Legal Studies, Cum Laude

Jd, Law