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Legal and tax matters for closely held real estate investment company doing business in Massachusetts and Florida

Leading the Company's REIT Program Office, which is overseeing the operational transformation of Company's conversion into a Real Estate Investment Trust. Duties include, in part (1) providing project management and technical support to each impacted function in its development and implementation of work streams and projects that define REIT readiness; (2) creating controls and governance for both the transformation efforts and future operations; (3) developing an enterprise wide/global education program; and (4) having responsibility for overall REIT compliance including detailed documentation and audit trail for IRS considerations.

Leader for the Company's worldwide corporate income tax function, reporting to the CFO. Responsibilities include designing and implementing the global tax strategy and initiatives, and overseeing the tax compliance and tax reporting functions.

Functional leader for Global Tax Strategy and Legal Structuring matters .Co-leader of the Global Services Social Impact Initiative Group including the program's development from its grass roots.Established a Global Tax departmental training platform.Logistics organizer for the 2005 Worldwide Finance Conference.

Leader of the Corporate Tax Department for a $6 Billion publicly-traded multinational biopharmaceutical company, reporting directly to the CFODeveloped and implemented the Irish Principal legal structure to support the Company’s European manufacturing expansion efforts, materially increasing earnings on a sustainable basis Managed global tax compliance, tax reporting, and strategic tax planning tax efforts for the companyMember of Ireland Steering Committee, supporting the build-out of Genzyme's European manufacturing infrastructure Member of the Business Development/Finance Steering Committee, offering ongoing advice in structuring collaborations, joint ventures, licenses, and acquisitionsMember of the leadership team that managed the post-merger integration of four multinational corporate acquisitions, ranging from $600M - $1.2BLed a two-year successful IRS Tax Audit cycle, re-establishing credibility with the IRSPresenter at the PWC Pharmaceutical Senior Executive Roundtable in Palm Beach, Florida

Project manager for analyzing, developing, and implementing several tax and legal structures for $1B+ multinational publicly traded companiesLeader of the Performance Review Committee for the ITS staff and liaison to the ITS partner group

International tax and estate planning for closely held companies and high net worth individuals

Served as the engagement manager for 20+ clients in the International and Technology groupsVoted “Top 10” Manager on a national level