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| Desired Industry: Legal |
SpiderID: 21480 |
| Desired Job Location: Fort Worth, Texas |
Date Posted: 7/1/2008 |
| Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent |
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U.S. Work Authorization: Yes |
| Job Level: Management (Manager, Director) |
Willing to Travel: Yes, Less Than 25% |
| Highest Degree Attained: JD |
Willing to Relocate: Undecided |
Objective:
To use my skills, experience, and education to take the initiative to structure, negotiate, and draft significant commercial transactions that maximize return on investment while minimizing risk.
Experience:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Private Practice
Fort Worth, TX 2006 to current
* Providing legal counsel to clients in connection with commercial and real estate transactions by coordinating with key executives to negotiate and review a variety of commercial agreements, including service & production contracts, licensing agreements, technology agreements, joint venture agreements, real estate contracts, and oil & gas leases.
VP Strategic Planning & General Counsel
Advantage International Management, Inc.
New York, NY 2003 - 2006
* Minority shareholder in company providing outsourced IT, marketing, and management solutions targeted to small to mid-sized business through direct marketing programs;
* Develop and implement the company's overall policies and procedures
to monitor, evaluate, and ensure regulatory compliance, protection of
intellectual property rights, and establishment of procurement and
distribution strategies;
* Identify products and services that represented attractive
opportunities for profitably enlarging the company's participation in
the market through internal development, business alliances, licensing,
and acquisition; and
* Structure, negotiate, and manage a variety of domestic and
international commercial agreements for procurement and distribution,
including independent distributor agreements, software licensing
agreements, service contracts, marketing & advertising agreements,
technology license agreements, promotion agreements, joint venture
agreements, production agreements, and real estate contracts, until the
acquisition by Safflyn Corporation.
Associate Attorney
Bush Craddock & Reneker, L. L. P.
Dallas, Texas 2000 - 2001
* Provide legal counsel on matters relating to commercial transactions,
M & A, real estate transactions, products liability defense, deceptive
trade practice defense, insurance defense, and Federal Employee
Liability Act claims; and
* Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements and real estate
contracts, including stock purchase, asset purchase, licensing,
franchise, and employment agreements.
Associate Attorney
Jones & Cannon, LLC
Arlington, Texas 2000-2000
* Provide legal counsel on matters relating to commercial transactions,
M & A, and real estate transactions.
General Counsel
Pro-Line Corporation
Dallas, Texas 1995-2000
* Promoted to General Counsel within two years to manage the day-to-day
legal matters of the nation's largest privately held manufacturer of
consumer goods marketed to African Americans;
* Provide comprehensive legal advice to executive officers and senior
personnel of corporate service departments (Finance, HR, & Purchasing)
and commercial business units (including Sales, Marketing, Advertising,
and Production) regarding both domestic and international commercial
transactions, regulatory compliance, conflict resolution, intellectual
property protection, licensing, due diligence, corporate governance,
and operational policies and procedures, until the acquisition by
Chicago based Alberto Culver;
* Negotiated acquisitions, joint ventures, and other strategic business
alliances that contributed to doubling of gross sales to nearly $100
million dollars within four years and an increase in the number of
product lines by eighty percent;
* Draft, analyze, review, and negotiate a variety of domestic and
international commercial contracts including distribution, product
development, licensing, production, purchase, supply, sales, marketing,
advertising, confidentiality, non-compete, settlement, financing, joint
venture, promotion, sponsorship, employment, and shareholder
agreements;
* Successfully supervise the legal aspects and eventual divestment of
the corporation's interest in all non-core stock and real estate
holdings (including shares in the Texas Rangers Baseball Franchise, an
undisclosed South African Company, & African Heritage Network (the
largest television syndication company of African-American audience
targeted programming in the U.S.), and the campus of Paul Quinn
College); and
* Manage the procurement and supervision of outside counsel in
connection with complex litigation and transactions.
Associate Attorney
Winfred Colbert & Associates
Fort Worth, Texas 1995 - 1995
* Provide legal counsel to manufacturing & construction companies in the areas of commercial transactions, real estate, and construction law
as a member of the commercial practice group.
LEGAL INTERNSHIPS
Department of Defense
Washington, DC 1993-1995
Office of the General Counsel International Affairs & Intelligence
- (DOD Intern of the Year Award '94 & '95)
Department of Defense
Darmstadt, Germany 1994
Army Judge Advocate General
Crown Prosecution Service
London, England 1993
Special Prosecution Unit International Crimes Section
Education:
J.D. - The George Washington University National Law Center
B.A. - Duke University - English, with honors
Affiliations:
State Bar of Texas -- member
Skills:
Over ten years experience successfully negotiating and implementing significant profitable commercial transactions.
Result: Structured domestic and international transactions, exceeding $100 million, that were advantageous from both a legal and business perspective, by means of stock purchase, stock swap, debt assumption, asset purchase, franchise, and convertible denture agreements to minimize risk, ensure regulatory compliance, and increase available capital. I utilized dedicated research and negotiation to secure transactions in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, and India that complied with business objective, domestic regulations, and international accords.
Demonstrated record of creating policies and procedures that fostered regulatory compliance and business objectives.
Result: Educated, advised, counseled, and consulted with the executives of numerous corporations, partnerships, and entrepreneurial endeavors (with up to 500 employees and sales networks of over 5,000), including Fortune 500 companies, such as Wal-Mart and Proctor & Gamble, in order to provide accurate interpretation of contractual documents and facts associated with business opportunity to effectively analyze and structure transactions so as to minimize risk, advance business growth, and better ensure return on investment.
Superior strength in connection with the acquisition and divestment of real estate, stock, and other commercial assets.
Result: Developed innovative solutions in alignment with business strategy by staying abreast of legal developments affecting company, its clients, and industries, that have mitigated transfer restrictions, reduced taxes, and increased available financing for portfolios containing properties ranging from single family complexes to three hundred unit condominiums, and ranging from 900 hundred acres of undeveloped land to multi million dollar commercial centers.
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