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London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

Serve as a commercial generalist providing advice and counseling to ABF on a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters, reporting directly to the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of ABF Americas.Handle and manage a diverse variety of legal matters arising out of the operations of ACH and other ABF subsidiaries, including but not limited to, general corporate and commercial, joint venture, employment, compliance, and risk management matters.Advise senior management on commercial transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures, and draft, review and negotiate the attendant agreements. Provide counseling and guidance on appropriate risk allocation for strategic and core business transactions.Review, draft and negotiate a wide variety of agreements, such as purchase, sales, nondisclosure, distributor, and service and supply agreements.Proactively manage related matters involving marketing, licensing, sales, information technology, and human resources, and provide ongoing advice and counsel on employment matters as they arise.Advise on federal, state and local government regulations and policies applicable to food products, including ongoing advice and counsel on labeling, packaging, advertising, and unfair competition issues.Provide guidance on intellectual property (primarily trademark and trade dress) protection, and cost-effectively manage litigation and pre-litigation disputes.

Miami, Florida, Us

Serve as a member of the Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions Team, with a focus on managing a variety of U.S. and cross-border transactional matters, and advising senior executives on a wide range of business and legal issues. Provide expertise in the area of global entity management and corporate structuring and integration, assisting and advising multinational companies in the structuring and restructuring of global assets and operations, and integrating new assets into existing client structures.Represent multinational corporations in over 100 foreign jurisdictions worldwide in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, formations, dissolutions, and day-to-day legal issues, providing an in-depth understanding of foreign laws, business, and cultural practices required to efficiently and effectively assist in the execution of transactions.Provide comprehensive legal services to public and private companies in their domestic and international merger and acquisition transactions, joint ventures and structuring and integration matters.Represent U.S. and multinational companies with employment agreements, supply and distribution agreements, corporate governance matters, as well as drafting company policies such as Business Codes of Conduct, Document Retention Policies and Employee Handbooks. Draft, review, and negotiate a plethora of cross-border agreements including merger and acquisition agreements; contribution, distribution and spin-off agreements; debt, equity and swap instruments; and related transaction documents. Mentor and train four (4) associates, and oversee the work of other junior and senior level associates.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Hired and dedicated exclusively to handle structuring and integration matters, developing a strong track record of working successfully with global companies to integrate and restructure their business operations. Assisted corporate organizations in managing change effectively and delivering better value with less risk by strategically addressing all legal implications prompted by acquisitions, spin-offs, or internal restructurings. Worked with a cross-border and inter-disciplinary approach, advising on a variety of corporate, intellectual property, employment and commercial law matters. Applied a detailed project management approach that takes into account global objectives and client needs while facilitating compliance with local laws, business, and cultural practices. Advised on pre-transaction restructurings, including multinational spin-offs and separations of divisions, lines of business or other assets into separate corporate structures, post-acquisition integration of acquired groups of companies, and supply chain restructuring projects.Applied a detailed project management approach that takes into account global objectives and client needs while facilitating compliance with local laws, business, and cultural practices. Advised on pre-transaction restructurings, including multinational spin-offs and separations of divisions, lines of business or other assets into separate corporate structures, post-acquisition integration of acquired groups of companies, and supply chain restructuring projects.

Chicago, Il, Us

As a consultant at Mayer Brown I counseled clients in cross-border transactions including, global structuring, integration, fiscal resorganizations, group simplifications, structural management and corporate governance issues.

Chicago, Il, Us

As an attorney at Mayer Brown, I counseled clients on International corporate law issues, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, global structuring and integration, fiscal reorganizations, group simplifications, structural management and corporate governance issues. In addition, I worked with Handled Firm client structuring and integration matters, providing a multidisciplinary approach to effectively implement, new structures and complex international projects.Provided a full range of legal services to leading global companies and financial institutions with respect to some of their most important transactions, including complex cross-border transactions.Advised numerous start-up companies in their formation and general legal and business matters, when seeking and receiving funding, as well as throughout their lifecycle. Handled private equity matters, and worked on the formation of funds and their management companies, representing investors in making and monitoring investments, and represented buyers, sellers, management teams, and fund sponsors in their investments in the secondary market.Worked on numerous initial public offerings and other securities and bond offerings.Successfully handled the structuring and integration work for Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW), a Fortune 100 manufacturing company, for fifteen (15) years.

Doctor Of Law (Jd), Law

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Literature (British And Commonwealth)

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