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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Draft, review, and manage contracts, subcontract agreements, notices, letters across different deals to ensure they align with company strategies and objectives• Maintain a comprehensive database of the contracts/agreements, including tracking expiration dates and renewal timelines• Prepare and issue subcontracting agreements, including change orders, change directives and amendments.• Coordinating contractual issues with the company's legal team.• Ensuring contracts and other documents comply with relevant regulations, laws (Canadian Business Law, Contractual Law, etc..), and industry standards, including CCA (Canadian Construction Association) and CCDC (Canadian Construction Documents Committee).• Manage and maintain notice of projects, certificates of insurance, project bonds, other securities and their renewals.• Maintain records and filing on existing and new contract bids and proposals for future reference.• Liaison between internal business parties, such as legal, finance, estimating, operational and sales teams, external vendors/suppliers and clients

Canada

● Elaborated, reviewed, and edited various contracts, agreements and addenda ensuring contract compliance while minimizing risks, using Canadian Business Law, Employment Law, Contractual Law● Maintained updated contract templates and approved responses, upholding adherence to standard practices and procedures for all stakeholders.

São Paulo E Região, Brasil

● Designed an effective contract workflow system for supervising standard contracts and clauses, as well as KPI monitoring, leading to a 70% reduction in SLA backlog across the organization.● Collaborated with members of the Legal, Finance, Operations and Sales teams to streamline processes and improve efficiency ● Ensured compliance with applicable policies, regulations, standards, and best business practices across a portfolio composed of 40k employees working for six companies, thus enhancing operational integrity.● Prepared contract summaries and stakeholders’ risk reports with legal term analyses to comply with procurement policies and assist stakeholders with added benefits such as lifecycle and efficiency improvement.● Identified and implemented contract process improvements for existing and upcoming projects, maintaining consistency with standardized contracts, templates, terms, and conditions across the organization.● Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated commercial contracts, including SOWs, RFPs, service agreements, amendments, and NDAs, to ensure accuracy and completeness in all documentation.● Applied superior negotiation skills to oversee dispute resolution processes and claim management procedures in connection to contracts, resulting in swift and favourable outcomes.● Analysed and interpreted post-contractual obligations, integral to contract lifecycles, employing LEAN methodology to streamline the processes.● Upgraded and monitored forms, user guides, and manuals due to process enhancement and legislation changes.● Managed data entry, processing, and analysis to enhance information quality, enabling the identification of trends and discrepancies.● Oversaw budgeting and forecasting, in addition to preparing monthly statistics and KPI reports, to ensure timely corrections whenever necessary for improved financial outcomes.● Verified and validated contractors’ invoices to ensure timely payment processing

São Paulo E Região, Brasil

● Elaborated, reviewed, and edited various contracts, addenda, and agreements, ensuring contract compliance while minimizing legal risks.● Monitored the contract lifecycle while also uploading agreements into databases and extracting relevant information from signed contracts as needed to expedite the escalation and resolution of unsolved issues.● Maintained updated contract templates and approved responses, upholding adherence to standard practices and procedures for all stakeholders.● Tracked contract progress and enforced contractual guarantees, warranties, and other clauses to make sure that goods and services are delivered on time and within budget.● Led project management initiatives aligned with the compliance program and mitigating risks related to environmental and logistical issues in particular.● Implemented a robust compliance tracking system, resulting in a 20% reduction in requests, and therefore enhancing operational efficiency.● Established efficient reporting channels for compliance issues, delivering regular reports on the effectiveness of measures while also maintaining organizational integrity and transparency.● Planned, scheduled, and coordinated comprehensive compliance training for suppliers, vendors, subcontractors, partners, and employees, fostering an organizational culture centred on accountability.

São Paulo E Região, Brasil

● Successfully coordinated the restructuring of the legal procurement and file redistribution system, achieving a notable 30% cost reduction while maintaining superior service quality at the same time.● Wrote and revised all contracts, addenda, and agreements related to client and customer representation, completely adhering to established legal requirements for such documentation.● Effectively communicated with peers to address any incomplete or inaccurate documents, providing necessary clarification and support for smooth legal operations.● Devised comprehensive contract audits by gathering and analyzing data to generate insightful management reports and then facilitate strategic decision-making

São Paulo E Região, Brasil

Legal advisory under Corporate Law for the formation of Lindt & CRM (Kopenhagen chocolates) joint venture; Franchising issues/ legislation; Labor/Civil/Tax Litigation; contract review and preparation; compliance and internal policies/procedures implementation; Real Estate Management; Tender Bidding processes; Plant termination; environmental legislation issues; Trademark and patent Laws issues; Due diligence and M&A management; Strong participation in top management decisions, at all areas; 5 HC team management, with 2 direct reports; Main achievements: Implementation of the corporation's Legal department; Management of aprox. 1,000 claims spread over all legal areas; Strong reduction in all Legal Accruals (in BRL: Labor: (-11M); Civil: (-1,0M); Tax: (-5M)); Organization and leadership in Volunteer dismissal program involving around 1,000 employees; Legal Management of Plant termination, involving all Labor, Civil (contracts) and Tax aspects.• Legal advisory under Corporate Law for the formation of Lindt & CRM (Kopenhagen chocolates) joint venture

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Legal department development, including attorneys and Law firms selection; Corporate Law requirements/acts attendance, related to both listed and non-listed entities; Local regulators attendance (the Cayman Islands and Brazil Central Banks, CVM, IRS, BMF/BOVESPA); Labor/Civil/Tax Litigation; contract review and preparation; compliance and internal policies/procedures implementation;.Main achievements: stocks sell/purchase negotiation entitled to the offshore branch incorporated in the Cayman Islands in the amount of USD 5, 5 million; offshore branch incorporation in the Cayman Islands including respective capital pay-in.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Prompt legal advisory to all branch general managers in Brazil, in all Law areas; Outsourced lawsuits management with respective Legal Offices; Legal advisory in meetings with suppliers and other company departments, for equipment, products, and services purchases; Implementation of Intranet Legal system, controlling around 3,000 active lawsuits and connecting 27 outsourced Law Offices in Brazil with Legal Department; budget/forecast preparation (Legal department); Legal labor advisory on the branch managers recruitment process all over Brazil.Main achievements: 70% reduction in consults to legal department with the Intranet Legal system implementation; Legal advisory in concession lease contracts, producing approx. BRL 2.0 M revenues/year;• Prompt legal advisory to all branch general managers in Brazil, in all Law areas; Outsourced lawsuits management with respective Legal Offices; Legal advisory in meetings with suppliers and other company departments, for equipment, products, and services purchases; Implementation of Intranet Legal system, controlling around 3,000 active lawsuits and connecting 27 outsourced Law Offices in Brazil with Legal Department; budget/forecast preparation (Legal department); Legal labor advisory on the branch managers recruitment process all over Brazil.

Rio De Janeiro Area, Brazil

All areas litigation at all stages and layers (Federal/State/Municipality); Office administration: training and personnel appraisal, finance and accounting; All areas litigation at all stages and layers (Federal/State/Municipality); Office administration: training and personnel appraisal, finance and accounting

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