Experience

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  BAYADA Home Health Care

  • Pennsauken, New Jersey, United States

  • Associate General Counsel - Transactions

    • Jul 2022 - Mar 2024
    • Pennsauken, New Jersey, United States

    • Mergers and Acquisition Leadership: Developed processes and led acquisitions of hospices, ABA practices, and other home health practices using exceptional interpersonal skills. Oversaw the entire process from initial due diligence to negotiation and finalization, ensuring seamless integration and alignment with corporate objectives and provide legal advice and status reports to senior management with analysis.• Securities & Investment Oversight: Provided comprehensive legal oversight for BAYADA Venture Investments, LLC, BAYADA's for-profit subsidiary focused on passive investments in healthcare startups. Strategically diversified corporate revenues and interests beyond core operations through prudent investment strategies.• Joint Venture Management: Directed legal oversight for BAYADA's portfolio of nine collaborative joint ventures, encompassing diverse areas such as PACE programs, hospice, and home health services, including contractual joint ventures. Expanded the corporate service license available to BAYADA through innovative partnership structures, fostering growth and diversification within the organization.• AI: Led multi-disciplined task for to develop AI corporate policies tailored to BAYADA’s service lines.

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  Sutter Health

  • Sacramento, California

  • Senior Counsel - Transactions (M&A, Innovation, and Diversification)

    • Feb 2017 - Jul 2022
    • Sacramento, California

    Legal oversight for Transactions, including award-winning innovation, commercial contracting and corporate governance for freestanding home health 501(c)3 and surgery center. Additionally with my versatility would do other duties as assigned, ranging from a lead attorney for solar initiative to commercial contracts for an affiliated medical school.• Corporate Governance Leadership: Directed operation and governance functions as corporate secretary and general counsel for key entities within Sutter Health, including oversight of Sutter Care at Home with an annual revenue of approximately $400M. I would engage in performance evaluations and legislative analysis as the company had a wide spectrum of its own business lines and joint ventures.• AI & Innovation Leadership: Spearheaded legal initiatives to work in collaborative cross functions guiding the Innovation Accelerator's pilot programs and assessing their success as part of a strategic approach to long-term Master Services Agreements. Program developed partnership with Suki AI to develop AI program to help direct users to appropriate level of care, which was later modified incorporate COVID to lead the charge.• Mergers and Acquisition Management: Provided oversight of a spectrum of merger and acquisition transactions, from joint ventures with Aetna to the establishment of an insurance company. Led negotiating, managed subject matter experts, and ensuring compliance throughout the process. • Securities & Investment Oversight: Reviewed potential investments in private equity funds by Sutter’s pension plan and corporate plans with approximately $15B in assets. Provided presentations and policies as necessary. • Business Strategy Initiatives: Led legal efforts for the creation and implementation of a solar initiative aimed at integrating solar energy solutions across Sutter Health, reducing environmental impact, and covering 15% of the system's energy consumption.

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  Weintraub Tobin

  • Sacramento, California

  • Associate

    • 2011 - Feb 2017
    • Sacramento, California

    Attorney specializing in Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital Markets and Securities; Corporate Finance; Corporate Growth and Governance; Commercial Lending and Secured Transactions; Intellectual Property; Licensing and Distributions; Private Equity and Venture Capital.

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  Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

  • New York, New York

  • Associate

    • 2009 - 2011
    • New York, New York

    Attorney specializing in Mergers and Acquisitions; Fund Formation; Capital Markets and Securities; and Corporate Finance.