Michael Beardsley Email & Phone Number

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Independence, Ohio, United States

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

• Draft and edit contracts between startup companies and their customers, employees, and partners, such as NDAs, employment agreements and incentive plans, and joint development agreements.
• Draft and edit investment contracts between startups and investors, such as stock purchase agreements, convertible notes, subscription agreements, and many others.
• Create capitalization tables to model and reflect changes in equity ownership.
• Work with opposing counsel to close transactions by executing on a closing checklist.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Performing legal research and preparing memos of research, including U.C.C. issues, such as battle of the forms, fiduciary duties of LLC members, and personal goodwill sales.Writing motions, including numerous motions in limine to exclude expert testimony and other evidence.Writing trademark office action responses, advising attorneys and clients on how to.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Perform patentability reviews, review licensing and confidentiality agreements, conduct IP research, analyze and present recommendations on company IP policy.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Performing legal research and drafting memos to report findings on various issues of bankruptcy law, among them include: debt cramdown on undersecured liens, the standard for discharging student loans for financial hardship, the standard for authorizing payment of a retention plan under 11 U.S.C. § 503(c)(3), etc.Preparing orders for the judge and law.

Groveport, Ohio

Primarily, I teamed up with the grinding operators to improve Peerless' grinding process to enable Peerless to achieve better surface finish. Peerless is now capable of satisfying a greater range of customer needs.

Groveport, OH

- Lead a project team of production supervisors, financial personnel, and production employees to decrease Cost of Goods Sold- Created a Make/Buy decision model to determine whether it is more cost effective to make intermediate work products- Total win = $50,000/yr.- Obtained Green Belt in Integrated Lean Six Sigma as a result, through The Ohio State.

Falon 1, Highland Hts, Ohio

Created parts drawings for WIP parts so employees can perform quality checks after intermediate operations, this enables Swagelok to have greater control over the quality of its parts.

Collected data from Lincoln’s subsidiary companies on their risk assessment process. Using that data, created a new risk assessment process to be standardized across all Lincoln facilities.

Euclid, Ohio

Worked assembly in Lincoln's wire lead assembly department, used variety of different small machinery including a stamping press.

Juris Doctor - Jd, Banking, Corporate, Finance, And Securities Law, Graduate

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Industrial And Systems Engineering, Graduated

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Delta