• Advise Hearst consumer media businesses on a variety of complex transactional, litigation, compliance, real estate, employment, regulatory, and governance matters• Lead negotiation and execution of M&A, joint venture, and investing activities, including numerous acquisitions and sales of local television stations• Advise management and boards of directors in Hearst joint ventures with Conde Nast (PubWorX) and Snap (Sweet) and as part of a major magazine publisher consortium (Texture - acquired by Apple)• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements in ad tech, e-commerce, data and analytics, product development, and content production and distribution• Represent the Office of General Counsel in leadership meetings with Hearst Magazines, Hearst Television, and Hearst Newspapers divisions• Develop internal processes and templates to drive efficiencies within the legal department• Engage and manage outside counsel and oversee and develop members of legal team• Selected for and attended Hearst’s highly regarded 12-month leadership development program (Hearst Management Institute)

o Negotiated key terms of numerous complex commercial and corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, joint ventures and licensing arrangements for corporate and private equity clientso Collaborated with and managed internal and external cross-functional teams to execute such transactions, often in the face of extreme time pressure and competing prioritieso Managed production of recurring quarterly study of relevant deal terms in order to identify trends and anticipate issues, and presented results at firm-wide practice group meetings attended by senior leaders of the firmo Coordinated 2013 summer associate program for the New York officeo Built and managed relationships with key strategic pro bono clients of the firm

Aided in planning and executing audits of public and private companies and issuing financial statements