Work directly with all departments within the organization, serving as counsel on strategic deals, draft or supervise the drafting of and review all company agreements, provide day-to-day legal advice, manage litigation, manage outside counsel and resolve legal issues that arise in existing commercial agreements.

• Established the firm and acquired clientele for commercial, financial and corporate work including arbitration.• Served as primary point person for clients during M&A transactions providing strategic advice throughout the process while managing internal resources to execute due diligence activities expeditiously.• Developed close business with financial institutions; took instructions and allocated work to various attorneys for execution and followed through to ensure satisfactory execution and client satisfaction.• Negotiated on behalf of clients ensuring that any conflicts of interests were duly disclosed and either consented to or alternatively declined to act or passed same to a different firm.• Led and managed a team of 10+ professionals across multiple industries including attorneys, tax and financial services.•Generated new business opportunities by researching and identifying potential customers in new markets.•Implemented business strategy for each client to achieve long-term growth objectives through market analysis, competitor tracking, and revenue planning.•Oversaw all aspects of deal execution from initial pitch through negotiation and closing with an emphasis on driving value for clients in terms of price, structure, and timing.

Real Estate Law

•Managed construction and federal government contracting, handling construction litigation and government contracts matters. (Highways, Ports, Airports, Hydroelectric power stations, oil refineries)•Provided accurate, timely, business-oriented legal advice to International private and public companies contracting with the Government, proposal development, negotiations, contract performance, and dispute resolution in connection with Government, international and commercial programs and financing.

• Practice focused on representing public and private companies in corporate finance, particularly in capital markets and bank finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate matters•Provided guidance on corporate governance matters and commercial contracts.•Addressed due diligence inquiries and represented the company in legal matters.•Prepared agreements for joint ventures, sales, share purchases, and other business activities.•Negotiated, drafted, and reviewed commercial contracts and international offices and clients

• Negotiated, structured, and drafted agreements relating to mergers, acquisitions, financings, and other business combinations.• Conducted corporate, intellectual property, and real estate due diligence in preparation for such transactions.• Advised corporate directors and officers regarding corporate governance and strategic business decisions.• Negotiated and drafted commercial contracts, including vendor and supplier contracts.

•Drafted legislation on Education Matters.•Preparing analyses of legislation, consulting and providing advice to legislators and their authorized representatives on matters of state or federal law, including constitutional, novel, and complex issues, formal oral and written legal opinions.•Providing legal representation and preparing contracts.•Attending legislative committee hearings.

Assessed the agency, drafting and negotiating contracts, and providing litigation services when necessary as well as creating Interinstitutional Framework Agreements between agencies, modifications to existing contracts and taking corrective actions, contract administration and handling contract claims and appeals.

•Received, reviewed, adjudicated, or denied immigration applications and petitions efficiently and fairly and assisted other federal agencies.•Supported the immigration benefits adjudication process by conducting a preliminary review of applications and petitions for immigration benefits and/or interacting with and assisting applicants and petitioners for immigration benefits.

• Served as the initial point of contact for incoming assistance actions from Department offices, embassies/posts, other agencies, international organizations, foreign governments, and non-government organizations. Managed assigned programs in an assigned region of the world or for assigned global functional issues, maintaining current legislative and foreign policy developments affecting the administration of these programs.

•Performed legal research and prepared trial briefs and legal memoranda by collecting data on precedents applicable to current cases; prepared legal documents and reports; interviewed and advised complainants and witnesses in regard to prospective criminal complaints.

•Assisted judicial officers with legal research, summarizing motions, and providing recommendations on case rulings.