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St. Louis, MO, US

St. Louis, MO, US

• Led a team of 5 lawyers and one program manager with sole responsibility compliance, investigations, antitrust, privacy, wholly owned distributorships, lobbying, and the company’s U.S. B-to-B eCommerce platform.
• Conducted risk assessments and created policies, procedures, and training.
• Developed government intermediary onboarding protocols.
• Facilitated SEC reporting, DOJ audits, and ESG compliance including conflict minerals, modern slavery, and greenwashing.

St. Louis, MO, US

• Joint responsibility for drafting and negotiation of procurement, supply, services, sponsorship, and IT contracts, M&A transactions, and corporate governance.
• Co-lead attorney on sale of craft businesses and assets to Tilray Brands.
• Sole attorney responsible for divestiture of Appalachian Mountain Brewery.
• Developed contract playbook, contract policy and procedures, exclusivities database, and contract training.
• Negotiated complex commercial transactions.

Chesterfield, MO, US

• Responsible for global compliance, privacy, employment, and commercial transactions at 7,000-employee Berkshire-owned global building solutions provider with locations in 22 countries, including:
• Led a 5-member team to develop global compliance program, including creation of code of conduct, conducting risk assessments, standing up data privacy program, creation and implementation of procedures, creation of.
• Provided direction and support to global HR leadership, including creation of employment contract templates and negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and HR vendor agreements, compliance with global laws.
• Commercial transactions including divestitures, transition agreements, HR and IT vendor and sales agreements.
• Corporate governance, including legal entity management and general corporate matters.

Maryland Heights, Missouri, US

• Responsible for global labor and employment, privacy, and litigation for one of the largest technology resale and consulting companies in the U.S. with offices on five continents, including:
• Creation and enforcement of restrictive covenants, works council negotiations, general compliance, and development of global employment contract, offer and policy templates.
• Managed all litigation, including database development, insurance policy negotiation, collaborating with underwriters on insured matters, creation of outside counsel guidelines, risk assessment, and strategy development.
• Developed global privacy program, including privacy notice and policies, employee and customer consents, creation and negotiation of privacy agreements and training contracts team on same, and website and application.

Maryland Heights, Missouri, US

• Oversaw global technology products and services contracts, global employment, privacy, export compliance and litigation matters, including:
• Developed global contract templates; negotiated global professional services, technology-development, privacy and license agreements, hardware and software resale and purchase agreements generating billions of dollars.
• Negotiated global professional services, technology-development, data privacy and license agreements, and hardware and software resale and purchase agreements generating billions of dollars in revenue.
• Structured global transactions to optimize legal exposure and ensure export compliance.
• Managed, negotiated, and resolved customer, vendor, employee, and contract disputes, and trained global sales force and operations on contracting.

St. Louis, Missouri, US

• Led a team of 9 people in the Contract Administration and Revenue Management Departments, providing legal oversight to the growing export business for a top-5 global coal producer with 9,000 employees in the U.S..
• Negotiated global coal sales and procurement contracts generating $3-4 billion in annual revenue including complex, long-term sales, service and strategic alliance agreements and agency, energy-trading, brokerage, and.
• Oversaw contract and cross-border compliance, export, FCPA and customs issues.
• Led the Contract Administration and Revenue Management Departments, including budgeting and staffing, and developed and streamlined offer-to-agreement and contract to cash processes, including systems and contract.
• Documented and refined offer-to-agreement and contract-to cash-processes, made systems and contract template updates, conducted training, and created contract playbooks.

St. Louis, Missouri, US

• Responsible for litigation, labor and employment, IP, regulatory compliance, and commercial transactions, including:
• Negotiated IT, real estate, and licensing agreements; led a 1,000-employee, 3-subsidiary divestiture, including information exchange, due diligence and transactional document review;
• Investigated complaints; conducted enterprise-wide risk assessment; Created code of conduct; Directed regulatory compliance; and Reviewed public disclosures;
• Managed trademarks and patents and reviewed external communications, press releases and marketing materials;
• Managed litigation matters and created litigation database;
• Managed employment matters, including policy development and training, union election petitions, and CBA negotiations; testified before the U.S. Department of Labor regarding proposed drug-testing legislation

Oakbrook Terrace, IL, US

• Member of two-lawyer legal department for publicly traded retail manufacturing, uniform and industrial laundry company with more than 300 locations in 39 states, Canada and Costa Rica. Responsible for litigation, labor.
• Negotiated global customer, vendor, international distributorship, manufacturer's representative, real estate, and asset purchase agreements; oversaw divestiture of two of Angelica’s three business units, including.
• Managed IP portfiolio and litigation matters and developed litigation database;
• Advised on global employment matters; created policies and training; negotiated with unions; and
• Lobbied members of the U.S. Congress on environmental, tax, employee benefits and union issues relevant to the industry.

Juris Doctor (Jd)

Bachelor Of Journalism (Bj) Cum Laude