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Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Solo practitioner with significant experience in transaction and corporate law negotiating and drafting contracts and related business documentation while specializing in franchise disclosure documents (uniform franchise offering circulars), franchise agreements, private placement memorandums, finance agreements, trust agreements, manufacturing and software licensing agreements, distribution agreements, intellectual property including trademarks and copyrights, commercial leases, executive employment and independent contractor agreements, shareholder and corporate governance agreements, escrow agreements, bond and note purchase agreements, call option agreements, convertible notes, stock purchase agreements, security agreements, financing statements and collateral assignment contracts and corporate due diligence. Further emphasis on business formation and investor financing for start-ups and worked extensively in the non-legal arena providing consulting to private businesses and non-profit organizations including market research, cash flow analysis, income projections and related tax issues.

Dallas

Founded company and duties consist of overseeing all daily operations including the development, coding and maintenance of a proprietary software that employs internet data mining techniques that tracks a company’s software and hardware technology infrastructure. Architected software licensing business model and drafted all related agreements and designed oversaw the development of a marketing software that anticipates client’s future technology procurement needs based on company growth indicators. Work directly with in-house programmers as well as coders in India, oversaw all marketing and sales initiatives, responsible for all corporate governance policies, and managed production team schedules.

Dallas

Responsible for drafting and negotiating bids for offshore survey and inspection contracts for oil and gas rigs in the Arabian Gulf as well as turndown and inspection contracts for oil and gas pipelines in the middle east. Completed all central contractor registration applications with various departments in the United States government as well as seventeen Ministries in Iraq. Negotiated contracts directly with members of the Saudi Arabian royal family and their representatives and three multinational Oil and Gas companies for various oil and gas inspection projects. Prepared and negotiated various consulting agreements for prison and public works contracts in Iraq. Drafted licensing agreements for logistical and mapping software for Iraqi contractors and negotiated directly with fortune 500 companies in reference to construction and engineering projects in Iraq.

Dallas

Architected and directed franchising operations in all fifty states including overseeing all compliance issues with the Federal Trade Commission and each state’s respective franchise departments. Drafted all documents related to franchising including without limitation the Uniform Franchise Offering Circular, Franchise Agreement, Software Licensing and Billing Agreement, Marketing Agreement, Lease Agreement, various License Agreements for Manufactured Products, Management Services Agreements, Executive Employment Agreements, and Non-Disclosure/Non-Compete/Non-Solicitation Agreements. Responsible for international franchising operations in the European Union including drafting all international agreements and overseeing regulation compliance with each country’s controlling governmental department. Responsible for overseeing complex patent and contract litigation involving licensing rights to a breakthrough patent for diabetes while overseeing three attorneys and related support staff.

General Counsel/Assistant Director

Directly responsible for all legal matters affecting United Care USA in fifteen states. Negotiated and authored contracts with over thirty national and state fund raising organizations. Responsible for all charitable gaming operations in Louisiana and Oklahoma including overseeing all accounting and financial aspects with gross proceeds exceeding $2,000,000.00. Accountable for directing and writing all grant requests to individuals, businesses and foundations located throughout the United States. Obtained all federal and state required licenses and permits working primarily with the office of each state’s respective Attorney General and Secretary of State.

Juris Doctorate (J.D.), Law, Top 25 %

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Delta St. Mary’s University School of Law Institute on World Legal Problems Innsbruck, Austria (Summer.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), International Relations With A Concentration In International Economics, Gpa 3.67

Theses: Bulgaria: An International Analysis of a Planned Economy in Transition, Creating Market Economies in Eastern Europe and the Former.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), International Management

Activities and Societies: AACSB accredited top 5 % business school worldwideInstitut Franco-Americain de Management, Paris, France (Fall.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Politics

University of Dallas Rome Program, Rome, Italy (Fall 1990)

Education record

Congressional nomination by House Majority Leader Dick Armey