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San Francisco Bay Area

Entrepreneurial law firm providing sophisticated legal representation and outsourced general counsel services to established and high-growth companies as well as "B" corps, values-based organizations, and social impact investors.Experience across a full range of business transactions including start-ups and entity formations; domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions; spin offs and divestitures; angel and venture capital; domestic and offshore equity and debt financings; secured lending; commercial and technology licensing; joint ventures and strategic alliances; SaaS, e-commerce, and affiliate transactions; marketing and distribution agreements. Envision, structure, develop, and implement business models that leverage collaboration to create new market channels and reinvent existing ones. Embed within select clients to deliver general counsel services including executive team cross-functional support in strategy, operations, organizational strategy, project management, risk assessment, and deal integration. Advise upon long-range business planning and modeling, market analysis, definition of funding and operational milestones, fiscal and human resource management, and sales, marketing, recruitment and affiliate/partnering platforms. Mediate strategic deals and other complex transactions as well as commercial and employment-related disputes.

Vienna, Austria

Serve among other practitioners in support of OSCE mediation activities by providing specific expertise relevant in mediation processes including gender responsiveness, mediation and dialogue process design, power-sharing, and crisis response.Design and conduct interactive training, coaching and retreat sessions related to mediation and dialogue facilitation.

San Francisco Bay Area

Mediate and facilitate complex negotiations, multi-stakeholder initiatives, organizational and systemic change projects.Deliver ombuds services using informal approaches to conflict management, resolution and prevention.Design and develop frameworks, models, and qualitative/arts-based research methods that help to construct new means of understanding around individual, relational, and systemic aspects of conflicts and emerging complex challenges.Design and lead experiential capacity building programs for professionals in negotiation, conflict resolution, participatory processes, adaptive leadership, creativity, and ethics.Provide leadership maturity coaching and consultancy for high performance executives, teams, and organizations.Engage in narrative research, collaborative inquiry, participatory action research, and intermodal arts inquiry across and within three field contexts: conflict; collaboration; and social innovation.Backbone organization for Renew Law: The Lawyers Leadership Initiative. www.renewlaw.org.

Berkeley, California

Design and teach courses in negotiation and deal-making to J.D. candidates as well as lawyers from around the world enrolled in the LLM program (10 cohorts). Ranked among the top 10 American law schools by U.S. News and World Report.

Stanford, California

Design and teach professional skills courses to J.D. candidates as well as lawyers from around the world enrolled in the LLM program (5 cohorts). Ranked #2 among American law schools by U.S. News and World Report.

San Francisco, California

Design and teach courses in negotiation and deal-making at the Center for Negotiation & Dispute Resolution (15 cohorts). Ranked among the top 10 American law schools in alternative dispute resolution by U.S. News and World Report.

Paris Area, France

Conducted high-level stakeholder interviews to identify and assess personal, relational, structural, cultural, and historical drivers influencing disputes and conflicts within the Organisation. Prepared preliminary systems conflict analyses mapping key actors and factors, mental models, and dynamic causalities.Developed strategies to reinvent the Organisation's existing mediation program and its approaches to conflict management, resolution, and prevention.Designed curricula for internal professional development courses to advance leadership competencies in the midst of conflict and ambiguity.

Menlo Park, California

Lead responsibility for structuring, documenting, negotiating, and closing complex domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions involving intellectual property, tax, real estate, antitrust and regulatory matters, domestic and cross border joint ventures and strategic alliances, venture capital fund formations and investments, domestic and offshore equity and debt financings including capital restructurings and reorganizations.

Palo Alto, California

Represented emerging technology businesses from incorporation through initial public offering or acquisition; represented privately-held and publicly-traded companies in acquisitions and joint venture activities; represented venture capital funds in portfolio company investments.

Miami, Florida

Represented privately-held and publicly-traded companies in mergers, acquisitions, secured financing transactions, equity and debt financings, and complex securities transactions.Represented leverage buyout funds in portfolio company investments, spin-offs and divestitures.Represented privately-held and publicly-traded corporations in complex securities transactions.

Jacksonville, Florida

Represented governmental entities, public utilities, institutional investors, investment bankers, commercial bankers, and corporate trustees in the development and financing of domestic and foreign public and private infrastructure projects, including energy, water, wastewater, civic facilities and airports.Represented privately-held and publicly-traded corporations in complex securities transactions, domestic and international joint ventures and strategic alliances, capital restructurings, secured financings, commercial licensing transactions, and general corporate matters.

Civil Rights Division, Housing & Civil Enforcement Section

Conduct research and investigations into alleged civil rights violations under the Fair Housing Act. Provide trial support to teams of federal attorneys in the prosecution of civil rights violations under the Fair Housing Act.

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Pi Sigma Alpha HonorsGeneva, Switzerland Study Group 1991; Washington, D.C. Study Group 1992.

Expressive Arts In Leadership, Creativity And Social Innovation

Diploma, International Commercial Arbitration

Granted by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London

J.D., Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: The Florida Law Review, Associate Editor"When Patience Is a Virtue: Weighing the Commercial Speech Value.

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