E-mail: jer_steele@outlook.com. I am a legal and business leader that secures strategic growth and profitability by providing legally sound yet business-practical solutions that enable organizations across global markets and in diverse industries to prosper and grow in a sustainable, profitable, and compliant manner. With extensive leadership experience in complex M&A, financing, strategic, and commercial transactions, I have collaborated with executives and boards to evaluate, decide and execute strategic initiatives that improved profitability and drove exponential corporate growth. I have led legal teams, and designed legal processes and functions, that effectively and efficiently facilitate and support organic business and company operations. I have leveraged my background in M&A, business strategy, compliance, and corporate operations to implement best practices, self-assessments, and continuous improvement initiatives that proactively mitigate risk and potential risk-related losses in legal and business operations while enabling and supporting profitable, sustainable organic and strategic growth. My expertise includes: Executive & Board Counsel | Mergers & Acquisitions | Financing & Securities Transactions | Strategic & Commercial Transactions, Contracts, Licenses | Compliance | Risk Mitigation | Corporate Governance | International Law | Labor & Employment | Intellectual Property | Environmental, Health & Safety | ESG | DEI | Corporate Strategy | Continuous ImprovementKnown as a reliable, trusted advisor and valued business partner to management and boards of multinational public, private and PE-owned companies, I develop and empower legal teams to strategically partner with business teams and provide approachable, practical, efficient, and effective legal support and expertise.As a legal strategist and P&L owner with proven business acumen, I:• Led 40+ M&A transactions ranging from $1M to $480M and spanning buy-side and sell-side, domestic and multinational, public and private transactions, with significant experience in all phases from deal solicitation through full integration.• Orchestrated 12+ financing and capital transactions ranging from a $10M PPP loan to a $600M credit facility.• Championed Codes of Conduct and highly visible, easy-to-understand compliance programs for 4 companies.• Proactively mitigated risks to protect and maximize profitability by driving transformative improvement and mitigation initiatives in legal and business operations through risk assessments, best practices in policies and processes, and training.