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Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

• Directed outside counsel and orchestrated negotiations for multiple eight and nine-figure acquisitions and sales in M&A and tax equity within renewables and natural gas sectors.
• Played a pivotal role in scaling asset growth from $50M to over $300M across shale gas and renewables, facilitating company expansion and market dominance.
• Implemented internal controls and policies to enhance efficiency and reporting, resulting in a remarkable 70% reduction in unaccounted processes and documents.
• Advised expat management on local law and business operations, effectively managing risk and bolstering public relations efforts.
• Facilitated seamless communication between US operations and Japanese legal teams, explaining US legal framework and rationale to ensure alignment with home office objectives.

Houston, TX

• Provided strategic counsel on Japan America Society of Houston (JASH) events and contractual matters, driving successful outcomes and fostering strong relations.
• Skillfully drafted and revised a wide array of critical documents for JASH, including supplier contracts, event-related services agreements, festival insurance policies, land agreements, press releases, and outreach.
• Spearheaded the enhancement of corporate governance structures and documentation for both JASH and affiliated events, optimizing organizational efficiency and transparency.
• Safeguarded the company's 501(c) status by meticulously ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, preserving its tax-exempt standing and financial integrity.

Houston, TX

• Provided strategic counsel on employment law, HIPAA compliance, and vendor contracts, ensuring robust legal protection and regulatory adherence.
• Skillfully negotiated supply contracts with vendors, crafting agreements that safeguarded company interests and mitigated risks effectively.
• Spearheaded extensive negotiations with external clients, aligning internal processes with their expectations to ensure seamless delivery of relevant deliverables.
• Directed efforts towards enhancing corporate governance, infrastructure development, and fostering internal and external accountability within the organization.
• Conducted comprehensive audits and corrections of contracts and compliance documents, ensuring legal precision and regulatory compliance.
• Implemented an updated contract retention system and established a dedicated project management department, optimizing operational efficiency and workflow management.

Houston, TX

• One of several short-term engagements with Sightline.
• Reviewed and revised existing contracts, working with 3rd party vendors on existing terms for rewrites.
• Implemented a contract management system to completely overhaul existing paper contract system.

Seattle, Washington

• Heavily involved in oil and gas pipeline litigation and cellular technology intellectual property cases
• Primarily responsible for research, responses, discovery and privilege issues, summations for senior associates and partners with detailed understanding of filings, RFP responses, privilege searches, and redaction.

Seattle, WA

• Counsel for Bitcoin company dealing with contract, dispute resolution, international agreements, employee and end-user relations, banking and government relations, and intellectual property issues.

Fukuoka, Japan

Assistant Language Teacher under the Japanese JET program. Taught over 1200 students per year in weekly or bi-weekly English lessons. Japanese teacher was present to provide help, but essentially the classes were taught by me. Assistant coach for track and field team and English Language club,Member of Japanese calligraphy club, and Japanese archery club.

Copy editor for Houston city paper. Duties included copy, format, and style edits for first edition stories, as well as publication online. Night shift position.

Created websites in base HTML and Dreamweaver for resellers buying products through Daisytek. Involved coordinating a large number of projects and educating resellers from the lowest level up, as well as interpreting their design requests to deliver a front page they approved of. Front-end sites plugged into the Daisytek inventory system.

J.D., Common And Civil Law

Activities and Societies: Research assistant to Professor Henry Gabriel Vice President of The Law and Technology Society Entrepreneurial.

Study Abroad, Arbitration, Intellectual Property, Humanitarian Law

Activities and Societies: Japanese Language Speaker's Society

Exchange, It, Intellectual Property, And Japanese Law

Activities and Societies: International Law SocietyOne semester of study due to the evacuation of New Orleans.

Master Of Laws (Ll.M.), International Commercial Arbitration

Activities and Societies: Assistant for the Vis International Moot Arbitration team

Ba, Government & Politics

Activities and Societies: UTD Mercury student newspaper Layout Editor - in charge of storyboarding, page assembly, content editing, and.