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Orlando, Fl, Us

Orlando, Florida, Us

Founded and direct a boutique law firm with focused practice areas of business planning, international and domestic transactions, corporate services, tax services, financial recovery and turnaround services, franchising, strategic management consulting, due diligence, and venture capital. The firm also is strategically aligned with other law firms to other needs of the firm's clients, such as criminal law, family law, personal injury and medical malpractice, immigration law, and complex civil litigation.The firm currently provides outsourced CFO and General Counsel services to a variety of corporate, governmental, and non-profit entities. In addition to traditional legal services, the firm also provides forensic accounting and fraud examination services, economic damage studies, and related expert witness services to corporate and governmental entities, including a multijurisdictional task force on organized crime, narcotics, and vice.

Tampa, Florida, Us

Tampa, Florida, Us

Serve on the faculty at the University of South Florida's Center for Entrepreneurship at the USF Muma College of Business, where the Master of Science in Entrepreneurship in Applied Technologies program is ranked 9th in the United States by the Princeton Review. I teach graduate courses in Intellectual Property, Business Planning, The New Space Economy, Artificial Intelligence, and Mergers & Acquisitions. The courses are open to graduate students in entrepreneurship, business management, engineering, and medicine. As a faculty member, I also participate in judging business plan competitions and mentor entrepreneurship students.

Founded and direct all operations for a middle market mergers and acquisitions advisory firm with the following practice areas.Corporate Strategy and Exit Planning: Development of strategic objectives, raising growth capital for middle market companies and start-ups, prepare companies for liquidity events, develop business plans, provide accounting and tax services, and review and formalize legal arrangements with shareholders, employees, directors, suppliers, and customers.Mergers and Acquisitions: Sell-side services including identifying potential strategic investors, private equity, foreign buyers, joint venture partners, or angel investors. Buy-side services including identifying target companies to acquire, merge, or enter into joint venture relationships.Due Diligence: Pre-acquisition due diligence, including accounting, legal, evaluation of managerial and strategic compatibility, and development of various deal structure options and deal terms. Post-deal due diligence, including monitoring portfolio companies for private equity firms, angel investors, and other investors, including advising on a variety of related accounting and legal issues.Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation: Provide forensic accounting and related litigation support, including providing expert witness services, authoring economic damage studies, investigating suspicious operating results or accounting irregularities, and evaluation of and/or development of internal control structures.Valuation: Entity or business segment valuation to support a variety of business planning purposes and liquidity events, including negotiating equity or debt infusions. Litigation support for cases requiring valuation of business interests.Real Estate Brokerage Services: Providing commercial and residential real estate brokerage services to domestic and foreign buyers and sellers.

Serve as General Counsel for an entity owning and licensing intellectual property, including a portfolio of nanotechnology patents.

Winter Park, Fl, Us

Founded and directed a business brokerage firm, providing buy-side services to international investors, primarily from South America, including due diligence.

Directed all operations for a start-up full service insurance agency offering property and casualty, liability, business, automobile, life, and health insurance products. Structured and negotiated the company's sale in 2008.

Managed a law firm with partners in Orlando and Boca Raton, Florida, including overseeing all firm-wide operations such as recruiting and hiring new partners and staff, structuring compensation, leases, advertising, and all administrative functions of the firm.Directed the corporate, international and tax practices of the firm, including structuring contracts and agreements, equity and debt infusions, international transactions, and mergers and acquisitions.

Directed all operations for a start-up title insurance agency including business development, recruiting, oversight, and management of employees, raising seed capital, and managing the financial reporting function.

Directed all legal and financial functions of a start-up steel trading firm with an international supplier and customer base.Oversaw the growth of the company from it's inception to a stable annual revenue base of more than $5M and trading margins of more than double the industry average.Established internal controls and transaction analysis and approval procedures to manage profitability and to evaluate trading performance.Negotiated purchasing contracts and brokerage relationships.Managed financial reporting functions, including tax planning and filings.

Directed the financial and legal affairs for a steel trading firm as part of a turnaround since the firm was in default of a significant amount of debt to steel mills and other suppliers as a result of the bankruptcy of a major customer.Restructured a significant portion of debt with suppliers, including negotiating workouts with steel mills and other suppliers to enable the company to continue to buy steel to supply to its customers while paying down debt.Structured the infusion of capital to rebuild the company during the workout of debt, including both equity investors and senior debt, which restructuring existing debt.Analyzed the profitability of the company's accounts and reengineered the company's purchasing and sales processes, which resulted in increased profitability of transactions and greatly reduced exposure to bad debts on credit sales.

Directed the financial affairs and the operations for an early stage enterprise that developed an innovative all-natural line of skincare and sunscreen products.Raised over $2 million from private investors, including seed capital and second-stage investments, which fueled a 1,000% growth in revenue and an investment valuation and market capitalization increase of more than 3,000%, and enabled the expansion of company operations from Orlando, Marco Island, and Naples, Florida to Palm Springs, California, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, USVI, Cancun, Cabo San Lucas, and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, St. Lucia, Aruba, and Jamaica.Planned and executed international market penetration, including structuring and negotiating direct foreign investment though foreign subsidiaries and structured export sales with foreign distributors and agents. Negotiated distribution and sales agreements in Mexico, Puerto Rico, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, Aruba, St. Lucia, Jamaica, and the United Kingdom.Managed and developed the accounting systems and financial reporting function.Authored the company's business plan and presented it to prospective investors.Directed all administrative functions of the company, including engineering work flows, developing compensation packages, recruiting, hiring and terminating employees, and overseeing all human resources.Structured and negotiated the acquisition of a resort retail management company.

London, Gb

Provided a variety of valuation and due diligence services to financial institutions, real estate developers, and government agencies in the real estate and financial services industries. Estimated the investment value of an international portfolio of commercial properties for a Swiss bank. Served as lead senior of a consulting project for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to estimate the market rent of public housing in 50 metropolitan areas throughout the United States in order to develop a housing voucher pricing model.Served as lead senior for the audit of an asset manager and investment company.Performed due diligence to support the issuance of real estate backed bonds.

Performed appraisals single family and multifamily residential real estate. Completed Appraisal Institute or equivalent training courses in Income Capitalization, Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, Appraising Single Family Residential Real Estate, and Appraising Complex Properties. Developed an econometric model to predict housing starts.

Provided a variety of consulting and assurance services to clients primarily in the financial services and real estate industries. Planned and supervised audits of financial institutions, asset managers, hotels, real estate developers, and non-profit organizations. Participated in and led consulting engagements, including operational consulting for hotels, due diligence to support a bank merger, and evaluations of internal control structures for audit clients. Completed a comprehensive training course in hotel management and valuation jointly taught by the Cornell University School of Hospitality and Arthur Andersen.

Juris Doctor

Master Of Science In Entrepreneurship In Applied Technologies

Master Of Accounting, Forensic Accounting

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science, Accounting

Bachelor Of Science, Finance

Certificate, Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence

Certificate, Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme

Certificate, Oxford Entrepreneurship: Venture Finance Programme

Certificate, Digital Transformation: From Ai And Iot To Cloud, Blockchain, And Cybersecurity

Certificate In Artificial Intelligence: Implications For Business Strategy, Mit Sloan School Of Management And Mit Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab

Certified Exit Planning Advisor Program - Exit Planning Institute

Certificate, Mergers & Acquisitions

Certificate, Entrepreneurship Development Program

Certificate In Chinese Law

Certificate In Dispute Resolution

Certificate In Mediation

Foreign Direct Investment And Legal Institutions Of The Commonwealth Caribbean