Managed a multitude of critical tasks supporting the legal team, and the company as a whole, involving business integrity, anti-corruption, corporate governance, capital raises, intellectual property, export control, and records management. Provided strategic support on a variety of significant operations matters. • Supported management of multiple global compliance programs and drafting of associated policies. • Assisted in preparation of SEC filings, such as annual reports, semi-annual reports, and periodic filings. • Facilitated administration of the insider trading compliance program. • Monitored and provided maintenance of commercial, third-party intermediaries and lobbyist contracts. • Prepared the department budget and contributed to resource planning of external counsel and vendors. • Coordinated general shareholder meetings and prepared various supporting materials. • Collaborated with multiple departments in responding to due diligence requests and provided administration of the data room involving several multi-million dollar capital raise projects. • Provided general support for U.S. business affairs, the U.S. and German legal teams, and support of legal team initiatives including working on ad-hoc tasks and projects.

Responsible for corporate legal records and entity management, coordinated license applications and renewals, and assisted the legal team in a variety of corporate, litigation, and compliance matters.• Served as Privacy Officer in charge of implementing the HIPAA privacy program.• Coordinated license application and renewals including working directly with officers and directors reviewing application/renewal materials for compliance, obtaining necessary application/renewal materials, and ensuring timely filing in multiple states.• Managed and maintained corporate filings, legal entity structure, and contract database.• Assisted in drafting a variety of corporate documents, incorporation documents, shareholder and board resolutions.• Supported attorneys in array of merger/acquisition, loan facility, corporate and commercial transactions.

Implemented programs, policies and strategies on how to organize, manage and retain important corporate records and other corporate information and served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the area of records management. Coordinated and managed the formal legal discovery process in collaboration with records custodians, IT and external defense counsel.• Spearheaded implementation of the new Information & Records Management Program.• Collaborated with 12 Information Governance Champions on records inventory and schedule.• Drafted the records retention schedule for final approval, publishing and implementation.

Provided support to 7 attorneys and assisted with due diligence and preparation of disclosure schedules and other related documentation in connection with mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions. • Supported employment, general liability, personal injury, contract and real estate disputes, and collection litigation matters.• Drafted, distributed, monitored, enforced, and released all legal hold notices.• Established a daily tracking system and maintained the database for up to 175 real estate locations.

Provided records management training and support to the organization and provided system training and support to the legal department. Also managed and maintained the e-discovery, electronic billing, matter management, offsite storage, legal research, and contract management systems. • Project managed system implementations, upgrades and process improvement initiatives.• Led migration and administration of Google Vault, the organization’s retention and e-discovery system.• Directed the team that designed and implemented the TyMetrix Matter Management System.

Provided support for up to 5 attorneys with complex caseloads and interviewed witnesses to gather legal information and confer with personnel in other departments and outside the organization.• Secured data and prepared response to class actions that captured over $100K in recoveries.• Assisted managing up to 300 real estate, merchandising and vendor dispute cases per year.• Investigated, negotiated and settled invoice disputes resulting in $20K in savings.

Provided support to attorney specializing in construction defect and general liability cases.• Organized and summarized large volumes of case related documents with the keen ability to efficiently locate and reference specific documents for 80 pending matters.• Trained two paralegals and onboarded two attorneys for the law firm.

Provided support for 3 litigation attorneys.• Coordinated discovery and case activities for up to 175 files in preparation for trial.• Received the Distinguished Performance Award for top paralegal in Florida.