Experience

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  Amphenol

  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Associate General Counsel

    • May 2023 - Present
    • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Managing legal risk for the Asia Pacific region. - Supervising an in-house legal team to support operating entities across Asia Pacific with respect to their legal and business issues. - Local market experience includes Greater China, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Japan, S. Korea, Australia and Europe.- Mergers and acquisitions – responsibility for M&A activity in the region. - Compliance – helping to develop, revise and implement ethics compliance program in the region.

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  Goldman Sachs

  • Tokyo, Japan

  • Managing Director

    • Sep 2007 - Jan 2022
    • Tokyo, Japan

    - Led and drove internal stakeholders, including business unit leaders, divisional leadership, firm partners, and other senior executives/stakeholders, to consensus on important strategic issues related to maximizing commercial/revenue opportunities for the firm’s Investment Banking, Asset Management and Securities Divisions, while minimizing reputational risk/conflicts of interest for the firm. - Identified opportunities and made recommendations to senior management on cross divisional commercial initiatives in order to drive revenue growth. - Analyzed corporate capital structures, reviewed credit and private equity agreements to determine specific rights associated with various classes of securities, and how those rights may be impacted in the context of a new transaction.-Drove strategic direction with internal stakeholders by analyzing complex financial transactions, including mergers and acquisition, capital raises (agent or principal), derivatives or swaps, in order to build a range of meaningful solutions/recommendations, while managing a variety of viewpoints and building consensus.- Extensive negotiation experience, including legal aspects of negotiations, engagement letters, confidentiality agreements and non-disclosure agreements.- Prepared policies and procedures, provided training , and conducted ongoing risk analysis, regarding the firm-wide conflicts process.- Led, and managed, strategic projects, including initiatives to improve data quality and technology, and facilitate automation.- Managed a team of junior members across various regional offices

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  Amphenol

  • Tokyo, Japan

  • Asia Counsel

    • Aug 2005 - Jul 2007
    • Tokyo, Japan

    Regional legal counsel covering Amphenol's Asian businesses.

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  Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

  • New York, Beijing, Hong Kong

  • Associate

    • Dec 2000 - Jun 2005
    • New York, Beijing, Hong Kong

    Transactional lawyer. M&A and securities practices.

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  O'Melveny & Myers LLP

  • New York; Shanghai

  • Associate

    • Oct 1998 - Oct 2000
    • New York; Shanghai

    Project finance and M&A.