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- Legal: Provided counsel to CEO and other senior management on regulatory compliance, corporate governance, risk management, and partnership and employee compensation plans.- Growth Strategy: Worked with senior management to implement growth strategy across verticals and negotiated with counsel and executives of corporate partners to implement such solutions. - Operations: Instituted and executed legal and operational best practices for company’s asset management practice by drafting a playbook to establish Special Purpose Vehicles (“SPV’s”) for secondary transactions to create alternative solutions for shareholder liquidity.- Restructuring & Compliance: Assisted in the acquisition and restructuring of the corporate parent company and its subsidiaries, while coordinating with the executives of the affiliate Broker-Dealer entity, GB Capital Markets, Inc. to ensure regulatory compliance.

- Provided counsel to early-stage startups, executives, and founders on founders' agreements, employment contracts, and non-disclosure, non-circumvention, and non-compete agreements. - Advised founders on complex regulatory-compliance issues and provided solutions that minimized the disruption to their end-product, growth and corporate identity. - Devised short- and long-term operational and growth strategies.

- Collaborated with startups on joint ventures using Carii platform. Helped clients tailor the platform in unique ways to generate revenue and drive end-user engagement through the platform, based upon the individual needs and means of each client.- Identified and created tailored expansion strategies for health & wellness and member-organization verticals: the industries with the fewest barriers to entry and greatest market opportunity to drive user engagement through self-perpetuating communities.- Ran day-to-day operations, serving as an intermediary between our CTO and 25-person development team in Indonesia and clients. - Devised and implemented tax and corporate structure solutions; drafted and reviewed client and advisor contracts; guided Carii development team through regulatory challenges, including those relating to a community content platform and GDPR.

- Counseled early-stage fintech and legal tech startups and executives on issues relating to early-stage growth. - Drafted founders' agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and other relevant documents for early-stage startups. - Consulted for UK- and European-based corporations and executives considering expansion into the United States. - Provided legal counsel to shareholders of UK and EU corporations considering potential litigation based in the United States.

- Represented large-scale commercial and residential real-estate developments in shareholder, partnership, and contract disputes.- Represented investment advisers, corporate officers, and directors in securities arbitrations and in Federal District Court in relation with claims brought against them under federal securities laws.- Researched and drafted legal memoranda regarding fiduciary obligations of executives, investment advisers, and brokerage firms.

● Assisted Communications Director and coordinated with senior staff to support urgent strategic press initiatives.● Drafted daily analysis of Governor’s media coverage and circulated it to Governors Spitzer and Paterson and senior staff.● Fielded hundreds of press inquiries weekly and drafted responsive policy memos and press releases.