Katherine Chimples Janas
Wayne, PA *****
E-mail: ******.*****@*****.***
WORK EXPERIENCE
AT&T Mobility, King of Prussia, PA
Lease Administrator
August 2012 to Present
Brandywine Realty Trust Radnor, PA
Real Estate/Property Management
January 2009 to 2010
Consultant -Investments/Acquisitions
Due Diligence on the buy and sell side of commercial office buildings.
Lease analysis, negotiations and review.
Extremely familiar with negotiations and all contents of commercial leases.
Environmental review.
E-data rooms.
Liaison to brokers, title companies, surveyors, environmental consultants.
Brandywine Realty Trust Radnor, PA
Real Estate/Property Management
October 2004 - June 2008
Senior Paralegal
Contract administrator/drafter of Construction/Architect/Engineer/Environmental
Contracts
Drafted Services Contracts and Purchase Orders in eight regions nationally.
Corporate paralegal duties.
Integral part of high profile merger and integration process.
Henkel Corporation Gulph Mills, PA
January 2003 - July 2004
Part-time Temporary Corporate Paralegal
Worked with the General, Associate General Counsel, and Company’s German
Headquarters on several high profile mergers and acquisitions.
Saint-Gobain Corporation Valley Forge, PA
March 2002 - July 2002
Paralegal
Reported to General Counsel and four in-house attorneys in the Company’s US
headquarters.
Acquisition due diligence.
Patent work.
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Gateway Homecare, Inc. Melrose Park, IL
July 1999 - July 2001
Paralegal – Satellite Office
Paralegal Consultant to the General Counsel and Vice President of a privately-held,
for-profit, home healthcare holding company and its seven active subsidiaries.
Acquisitions, mergers, stock buy-backs, warrants, options.
This company was a CD Ventures roll-up (see below).
CD Ventures, Inc. Berwyn, PA
July 1998 - April 2001
Paralegal
Small, privately held, fast moving venture capital firm engaged in corporate roll-ups
and consolidation.
Due diligence, corporate re-structuring, stock option and warrant agreements.
Thorough knowledge of asset and stock purchase agreements, merger agreements,
and closing documents thereto.
Drinker Biddle & Reath Philadelphia, Berwyn, PA
July 1996 to April 1998
Part-time Corporate Paralegal
Transactional related work included due diligence, acquisitions and mergers, closing
documents.
American Healthcare Management, Inc. King of Prussia, PA
November 1991 - November 1993
Corporate Paralegal
Publicly-held, for-profit, Healthcare Corporation with 17 active hospital subsidiaries.
SEC filings, State filings, contract and lease negotiations, liaison to general counsel.
Drinker Biddle & Reath Philadelphia, Berwyn, PA
July 1988 to November 1991 Full-time
Full-time Corporate Paralegal
Fast-paced business and finance department.
Sole paralegal involved in establishing the firm’s Berwyn office in 1989.
Joint ventures, IPO work, blue sky securities, corporate and partnership formation and
structuring.
EDUCATION
Philadelphia Institute for Paralegal Training Philadelphia, PA
Certificate in Corporate Finance and Business Law
September 23, 1988
Northwestern University Evanston, IL
Bachelor of Science in Speech
June 14, 1986
The Baldwin School Bryn Mawr, PA
June 11, 1982
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SKILLS
Highly proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel
Extremely strong communication, organizational and writing skills
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