A member of the senior management team and a key strategic partner to other functional teams. Responsible for providing leadership and legal and business counsel in the areas of corporate compliance, corporate governance, domestic and international corporate transactions, M&A and corporate finance, capital raising, complex litigation management, employment, contracts, and the evaluation, selection and supervision of outside legal counsel.

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Senior member of the Office of the General Counsel for a $5 billion, not-for-profit, regional healthcare system. Principal attorney advising corporate and operational leadership within the following departments: finance, information services and supply chain, among others. Provided strategic counsel and served as lead counsel to the finance department and ambulatory services business (i.e. surgery centers), structuring credit transactions, acquisitions, equity investments and joint ventures. Lead counsel for the IS and supply chain departments, supporting clinical, research and academic, and administrative functions across the Medstar system.I advised the General Counsel on corporate governance matters at all levels within the MedStar system.

International corporate transactional attorney with an emphasis on international project finance, mergers and acquisitions and supply chain management.I represented private equity firms in initial and follow-on investments in early-stage companies and strategic investments. As a key member of the firm's Africa practice group, I primarily focused on corporate transactional and project finance matters on the African continent. I also led significant corporate finance deals (including secured and unsecured debt financings and venture capital financings) for clients with national and international operations. I advised private, public and quasi-governmental clients on general corporate governance matters.I directly counseled c-suite executives as outside counsel and negotiated strategic wholesale, distribution, reseller and supply agreements and related logistical agreements across multiple industries.

Corporate transactional attorney specializing in investment fund formation, business combinations and divestitures (including domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, stock and asset purchases and joint ventures), corporate finance (including secured and unsecured debt financings and venture capital financings) and general corporate governance on behalf of private, public and quasi-governmental clients. Also advised companies and negotiated agreements for the distribution and supply of products domestically and internationally across a variety of sectors.

Coordinated strategic planning and implementation for the largest non-partisan, voter education program during the 2003 mid-term and 2004 presidential election cycles

While at Latham & Watkins, I was a member of the group that advised a global alternative asset manager with more than $90.5 billion under management. My work included fund formation and the purchase and divestiture of portfolio companies in a variety of sectors. I also had experience in project finance (including the largest bank financing for construction of the two largest independent power projects in the United States at that time) and general corporate transactional matters on behalf of public and private clients.