Relevant Experience

Industry Experience: 

Law, real estate, property and facilities management, financial services, retail, healthcare, nuclear electric power

Functional Expertise

Consulting:     

»         Legal best practices

»         Analysis and implementation of reducing outside counsel legal costs

»         Analysis and implementation of reducing contract completion time

»         Contract management

»         Managing outside counsel

»         Standardizing legal forms           

»         Risk management

»         Creating, structuring and rolling out new business products and services

»         Due diligence    

»         Arbitration or mediation of corporate disputes as a neutral

»         Frequent speaker and author

Legal Services: 

»         General Counsel Practice          

»         Corporate and securities law      

»         Mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and joint ventures

»         Real estate transactions

»         Litigation management and support

»         Public and private offerings of securities

»         Private equity transactions

»         Securities Exchange Act reporting requirements/Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

»         Drafting, negotiating, reviewing, modifying, and closing different kinds of complex agreements

»         Human resources and employment law, including employment agreements, severance agreements, non-competition agreements, employee policies and procedures training

»         Corporate governance, including counseling boards of directors, board committees and senior management teams, and the corporate secretary function

Selected Accomplishments

1^st        Led project reducing external legal spend at healthcare portfolio company of Blackstone Group by over 50% (in excess of $12 million); performed critical skills analysis of law department enabling General Counsel to restructure the law department; drafted form procurement contracts for equipment purchases and services outsourcing

2^nd     Created a legal services capability that saved millions of dollars per year in inside and outside legal costs; Led several public and private company legal departments rated “best department in the company”

3^rd     Led the risk management function of several public and private companies, creating strategy that increased insurance capacity and reduced insurance costs by several million dollars per year

4^th     Structured, documented, negotiated and closed acquisitions and sales of companies, strategic alliances and joint ventures

5^th     Conceptualized, structured and prepared 35+ public securities offerings and 150+ private securities offerings which raised over $4 billion of capital from retail and institutional investors

6^th       Led successful industry-wide regulatory and legislative effort to provide a permanent ERISA plan asset exemption to permit retirement plans to invest in group real estate investments