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• Serve as fractional in-house GC for mid-sized companies and as strategic senior counsel for larger entities• Provide strategic advice to prominent large brand name clients, including some multibillion dollar corporate companies (Ann Taylor, Talbots, The Children’s Place, Tillys, and Palantir), across multiple disciplines, such as SaaS, AI, telecom, advertising, marketing, retail, hospitality, privacy, and general technology• Seamlessly support in-house legal teams in negotiating complex strategic transactions while developing and maintaining strong working partnerships with C-Suite, procurement, marketing and advertising, sales, IT, transportation, data compliance, finance, sourcing, and HR teams• Negotiate and draft a diverse range of complex commercial agreements worth over $100 million in value• Negotiate with thousands of different vendors, including major technology service providers such as HPE, Oracle, Cisco, TCS, Manhattan Associates, IBM, AWS, UPS, Master Card, Klarna, Aurus, Akamai, Workday, SalesForce, Verizon, and Zoom• Identify opportunities and draft dispute letters, resolving over $5 million per year in savings for clients• Represent clients in saving over $20 million by supporting, evaluating, and providing appropriate solutions to stakeholders by acting as primary legal and risk contact (and business advisor) for thousands of procurement related matters worth approximately $1 billion annually, for Ann Taylor, Talbots, Lane Bryant and several other brands

• Negotiated and drafted agreements for a portfolio of over 100 hotels, worth over $1 billion, including many Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt and other name-brand hotels, for construction, design, management, and a wide variety of agreements for the day-to-day operations of the hotels• Responsible for managing in-house dispute resolution process resulting in savings of over $5 million• Created scalable templates and processes to empower clients to negotiate their own agreements

• Supported the executive management team of an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, startup • Responsible for negotiating and drafting easements, equipment leases, construction and maintenance agreements, credit and security agreements, settlement agreements, utility agreements, and managing and supervising outside counsel on transactions and in litigation • Increased revenues by reducing expenses and collecting disputed amounts from non-paying customers

• Managed defense litigation and other disputes (approximately 150 pending cases at any time), plus wholesale collections and bankruptcy issues (approximately 700 pending cases at any time) • Advised internal clients on telecommunications and regulatory issues (e.g., slamming, construction and leases) and on a diverse range of other issues • Drafted, negotiated and provided advice and counsel on a variety of agreements (e.g., web hosting, distributor, prepaid services, wholesale services, software licensing, tariffs, collocation, fiber optic capacity IRU, settlement, credit, security, escrow, warrant, assignment and asset purchase agreements)

Bachelor Of Arts, Psychology

Angell Scholar

Law

Jd, Law

Top 15% of class