I AM

A Senior Corporate and Contracts Paralegal with more than 20 years of experience as in-house Paralegal working as the right-hand of General Counsel on one-on-one basis supporting the legal areas of commercial and procurement contracts, corporate and compliance governance in North America, and LATAM.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Knowledge of legal concepts applied to business objectives with business acumen.

Bilingual Spanish/English.

Ability to work independently under limited supervision of an attorney.

Creative problem solver. Resourcefulness, use of collaborative solutions in handling issues or tasks.

Excellent talent in building effective relationships with internal and external clients, as well as outside legal advisors.

Handle highly confidential information with professionalism and unquestionable integrity.

Proficient in the use of office equipment, Microsoft Word Office, Adobe Acrobat Pro, SharePoint, DocuSign, Salesforce.

EXPERIENCE

COMMERCIAL PARALEGAL CALA REGION, CIENA (TELECOMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY)

Miramar, FL (Remote) October 2015 – Present.

Support business teams to meet the commercial goals.

Review, draft, commercial contracts for sales and resales of Hardware, Software and Services included but not limited to: Non-Disclosure Agreements, Sales and License Agreements, Affiliate Addendums, Amendments, Local Country Agreements, Resellers Agreements, End User License Agreements, Product Credits letters.

Review, draft, procurement contracts, included but not limited to, consulting agreements, sales agent agreements, services agreements.

Support to commercial management team providing legal approach to commercial opportunities for established and new sales contracts, included but not limited to, revision of legal and commercial terms and conditions, advise on best legal applicable approach as required to fulfill the objective of the commercial objective at hand (i.e., purchase orders, quotes, amendments, supplements).

Support for producing legal terms and conditions of established or new commercial contracts and on applicable contractual vehicle to use for the purpose at hand (i.e., amendments, supplements, local country agreements, affiliate addendums, etc.), intercommunicating with internal cross-function departments (i.e., services, business operations, product line management, order management).

Capture commercial contract information in company’s contract’s database system (key terms and conditions for contracts in English, Spanish or Portuguese).

In charge of managing and maintaining corporate matters for 8 subsidiaries in Latin America by coordinating with local external counsel, including but not limited to, review of draft of minutes provided by external counsel to corroborate information and objectives pursued accuracy, follow-up and supervision of compliance of external service to fulfil all corporate documents are filled in the corporate database.

Support Assistant General Counsel and Head of Legal CALA with all legal matters arising out of the operation of the CALA Region (i.e., litigation, compliance, customs, outside counsel relationship) by communicating with internal stakeholders,, escalating issues for resolution to manager or higher-ranking executives as needed.

Notarization and apostille processing of documents with consulates in Miami, for use of such documents in countries outside of USA (Latin America and the Caribbean).

Achievements:

Liquidation of subsidiary in Brazil by coordinating with local legal counsel, internal stakeholders.

Negotiation of sales and license agreement total value of US$4,000,000.00 with customer’s main company and three subsidiaries (USA, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina).

PARALEGAL AMERICAS REGION, MELIA HOTELS INTERNATIONAL. MIAMI, FLORIDA.

Octuber 1995 – October 2015

Assist General Counsel on daily tasks to meet the Legal Department’s mission.

Maintenance of corporate matters for domestic private companies, including but not limited to, incorporation, corporate books, drafting minutes, powers of attorney, state registrations, annual reports and withdrawals.

Notarization and apostille processing of documents.

Coordination of outside counsel for the production of documents for entities in Latam, Caribbean and Europe.

Draft or review of drafts with comments and/or corrections for General Counsel s approval of legal documents required to meet the objectives of the company s business.

Communication, coordination, and administration of legal inquiries received through email or by phone, from clients or from outside counsel, for presentation, discussion and resolution with General Counsel, as well as continuous follow up until finished.

Production of travel expenses reports for General Counsel.

Due Diligence assistance to team in charge of company’s public offer in the stock exchange of Madrid, Spain (1998).

Creation, implementation, and maintenance of Data Room and filing system for the company s legal department paper/digital.

Achievements example:

Attended personal injury lawsuit mediation along with company s defense attorney; as per instructions of General Counsel, during her absence on occasion of her maternity leave. Posteriori wrote reporting to management on behalf of General Counsel.

PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER, HOTEL MELIA TURQUESA. CANCUN, MEXICO.

Oct 1994 – September 1995

Management of personnel in charge of concierge services and entertainment activities.

Correspondence answering requests for events budgets and coordination with internal A&B department for events at premises.

Attendance to local promotional events.

Production and distribution of press kits for local newspapers

In charge of VIPs guest greeting and follow up during stay.

EDUCATION

ECORNELL UNIVERSITY

Business Contracts Certificate.

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONTRACT AND COMMERCIAL MANAGEMENT

Associate (CCMA) Certificate of Completion Contract and Commercial Management Certificate

Basics of Contract and Commercial Management Curse (November 2019).

MIAMI-DADE COLLEGE – MIAMI FL – AS LEGAL ASSISTING

Graduated in 2003 from the 2 years Associate in Science Legal Assisting, ABA approved program, covering a myriad of legal studies covered: Torts, Family, Probate, Criminal, Trial and Appeal Procedure, as well as two semesters of Business Law. GPA 3.0

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