Management High School

MICHAEL PROKOP

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Experience

WR GROUP HOLDINGS

Stamford, CT

Vice President - Legal Affairs - Managed Account Platform Services

Jan 2010 - Present

. Provide legal advice to Senior Management team regarding corporate,

transactional and day-to-day legal matters

. Draft, negotiate and review Sub-Advisory Agreements with multi-

billion dollar hedge fund clients

. Negotiate and draft Indemnity Agreements, Investor Supplements,

Redemption and Subscription Agreements, Confidentiality/Non-

Disclosure Agreements and Share Offering Memorandums

. Perform due diligence checks on potential investors and clients

. Assist in the on-boarding of new clients

. Represent clients in contract negotiations with financial

institutions

. Register clients with the necessary regulatory associations within

the United States as well as abroad

. Assist the business development team in attracting new clients and

investors

BANK OF AMERICA - MERRILL LYNCH

New York, NY

Consultant - Global Collateral Risk Management Operations

Sept 2009 - Dec 2009

. Responsible for negotiating and reviewing International Swap and

Derivative Association, Inc. Master Agreements (ISDA) and Credit

Support Annexes (CSA)

. Searched executed ISDAs (US and UK law) for crucial negotiated

terms to enter in databases that serve collateral terms

. Analyzed legal, credit, risk, and collateral terms in Schedules

(cross default, additional termination events, and independent

amounts) and CSAs (collateral delivery, grace periods, and

thresholds)

CREDIT SUISSE

New York, NY

Consultant - Collateral Risk Management Unit

Nov 2008 - Feb 2009

. Legally interpreted ISDA Master Agreements and Credit Support

Annexes

. Analyzed credit rating triggers in the firm's executed ISDAs to

determine when events of default will occur

. Determined credit support amount owed if credit rating threshold

had been breached

MERRILL LYNCH

New York, NY

ISDA Negotiator - Hedge Fund Integration Services Department

Jan 2008 - Oct 2008

. Represented hedge fund clients in contract negotiations with

financial institutions

. Negotiated, drafted and prepared for execution ISDAs, ISDA

Amendments, Global Master Repurchase Agreements, Master Repurchase

Agreements, and confidentiality agreements, on hedge fund clients'

behalves

THACHER PROFFITT & WOOD

New York, NY

Paralegal - Real Estate Department

Jul 2005 - Jul 2006

. Assisted attorneys in all facets of conduit and multi-property real

estate transactional deals

. Drafted Documents such as Affidavits, UCC-1 Financing Statements,

loan documents

. Reviewed estoppels, prepared escrow packages for Title Companies'

review, and assembled post-closing binders which included all loan

documents and due diligence

Education

NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL

New York, NY

Juris Doctorate, May 2009

Admitted to the State of New York Bar, August 2010

. Relevant Coursework: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporations;

Secured Transactions; Bankruptcy

. Recipient of Dean's Scholarship and Alumni Association Scholarship

. Member of the Center of Financial Services Law

UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND

Richmond, VA

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration/Marketing and Management

Systems, May 2005

Additional Information

. Interned at a Matrimonial/Criminal Law firm from May 2007- August

2008

. Consulted at New York Law School in the Student Life/Career

Services Center

. Attended Chaminade High School in Mineola, NY

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