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Savannah, Georgia, United States

Master professional services agreements, statements of work, consulting services agreements, software licenses, maintenance agreements, SaaS agreements, outsourcing agreements.

Anywhere

Took a break to travel, rest and recharge.

Bedminster, New Jersey

Vice President and Head of team of 22 attorneys and professionals based throughout the United States and India, with complete responsibility for end-to-end negotiation of all Americas customer-facing contracts, including master services agreements, statements of work, associated vendor agreements, NDAs and partners and alliances agreements.

East Brunswick, Nj

Oversee all local commercial sales contract negotiations throughout the Americas, representing a majority of Wipro's revenue, while managing a team delivering pragmatic, timely closings of very large deals. Hired or acquired legal team consisting of 12 direct and indirect attorney subordinates.Lead Negotiator - 2014 Wipro "Deal of the Year" - Global Sales

Princeton, Nj

Commercial Transactional Work.Over nine years as principal U.S. negotiator of the Factiva and Dow Jones global sales and consulting services organizations’ master subscription agreements, professional services agreements, technology in-bound and outbound licensing agreements, requests for proposal, outsourcing agreements and confidentiality/non-disclosure agreements.Technology Procurement Counsel. Negotiated hardware and software vendor licenses, OEM agreements, software escrow agreements, non-disclosure agreements for the Procurement Group and Product Group with regard to technology acquisitions for use in their own products or for back office functions.Corporate Governance. Managed corporate governance of ~ 130 Dow Jones subsidiaries and sub-entities, coordinating same with finance and human resources and parent corporate secretary. Responsible for the formation, registration, initial regulatory compliance, capitalization, licensing, branching, dissolution and legal management of such entities. Procured, engaged, managed and oversaw bill payment of governance law firms worldwide.Tax, Treasury, A/P and Transfer Pricing Counsel. Principal legal counsel to Dow Jones Tax, A/P and Treasury and principal legal interface with News Corporation Tax regarding transfer pricing. Legal Department Technology Innovator. Procured and managed (i) OpenText LiveLink document management system archiving and organizing Dow Jones B2B sales contracts and corporate governance records and (ii) Exari contract assembly system used to embed complex attorney-drafted legal logic into online interviews of sales staff, resulting in the generation of first draft sales contracts, saving attorney time.Real Estate Counsel. Managed external global general counsel for real estate and local real estate counsel with regard to all sales and leasing transactions, harnessing my knowledge of the corporate entity structure to solve related title, sale authority and internal resource issues.

Princeton, Nj

Enterprise Sales Contracts Counsel. Sole negotiator for Dow Jones’ business-to-business unit’s highest revenue subscription enterprise licenses for web-destination and content integration subscription services. Negotiated Dow Jones professional consulting services agreements. Advanced Contract Template Drafting. Counseled Senior Vice President for Global Sales and the Sales Operations team in the drafting of the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group’s sales contract template for worldwide use by the merged Factiva and Dow Jones sales team (approximately 500 salespeople), integrating best global practices of the Factiva and Dow Jones organizations with the technological requirements of the SalesWorks Customer Relationship Management systems team.

1998, Winner, Chairman’s Gold Service Excellence Award - Chosen the best Legal Division service provider by an executive management committee after nomination by the General Counsel from among 23 attorneys and 75 compliance and support staff.Corporate Secretary Function: Structured (with tax consultants) and was solely responsible for the implementation of various state and federal tax minimization strategies, including the incorporation, restructuring, asset sale, merger and dissolution of relevant non-bank subsidiaries, the drafting of board of directors resolutions, bank regulatory applications, charter documentation, intra- and inter-state merger documentation, corporate minutes, inter-affiliate lending documentation, inter-affiliate service agreements and inter-affiliate sub-leasing agreements.

J.D., Law, Honors

Ba, Economics

G.C., Economics