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Content Creator Business Consultant

Location:
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Posted:
April 03, 2023

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SUSAN HILARY TREGUB

1-818-***-**** (USA)

+** (0-71-498-**** (RSA)

*******@*****.***

CORPORATE CONSULTING

More than 25 years of successfully managing complex business and securities transactions and civil litigation with both domestic and international companies. Expertise in contract negotiation, drafting and administration, due diligence, leading and participating in acquisition projects and closing financial transactions. Success in building relationships with internal and external attorneys, a diverse and geographically dispersed work staff, executives, investors, and business partners. Experience working frequently within short critical timelines. Summary

For the last 25 plus years, the focus of my career has been on corporate transactional work for companies ranging from start-ups to those with financially sophisticated and complex matters. I have been retained by both law firms and, for 10 years from 2000 to 2012, was retained by an entrepreneurial company for its exclusive use in business and securities transactions.

The focus of my work has been corporate/mergers and acquisitions, transactional work, and business civil litigation.

Specialties

From 2015 to present I have worked through my consulting company with the representation of a technology companies.

From 2005-2009 I was part of the upper executive management involved in their legal and organizational operations, helping a company raise over approximately $300 million in 2+ years for the purpose of building an entertainment based production and distribution company. I have experience with mergers and acquisition in varied forms and varied kinds of companies, from start-up companies, to companies growing and going public, and to those companies acquiring assets out of bankruptcy. I have assisted clients in everything from raising Negotiating/drafting complex contracts

Corporate organization, structure

ownership, and governance

Intellectual property contracts

Project management

Mergers and Acquisitions

Building attorney and third party

business relationships

Working with outside attorneys, investors,

executives, clients, customers, and vendors

Human resource and employment issues

Working in a collaborative, cross

functional

environment

Written and verbal communications

capital for start-up companies to working on IPOs. I have done this work for various kinds of companies, including internet based businesses, entertainment companies, real estate, and restaurants. I have also worked in the technology sector. I have substantial experience with (1) drafting and administering contracts, including licensing and distribution contracts, (2) being responsible for HR, including office policies, negotiating contracts and hiring, and firing,

(3) negotiating office locations as wells as moving, building space and negotiating leases, and (4) supervising litigation relating to employee disputes, landlord tenant disputes, business disputes, complex business, copyright, and lending disputes, among others. I am currently a business consultant who can manage various stages of a company ’s growth and their legal and business operations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SUSAN H. TREGUB, BUSINESS CONSULTING

2012-Present, Los Angeles, CA

Consulting services for clients. Substantial experience with the additional following matters:

● Corporate formation, structuring and organization;

● Project management;

● Negotiating, drafting, finalizing, and administering contracts;

● Managing employees and staff;

● Managing HR, including office policies, negotiating contracts, and hiring, and firing; Negotiating office locations as well as moving, building space, and negotiating leases; and

● Supervising litigation relating to complex business transactions, employee disputes, landlord tenant disputes, business disputes, intellectual property, and lending disputes.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS :

SPYRUS, INC./SPYRUS SOLUTIONS, INC.

San Jose, CA 2015-2021

SPYRUS, Solutions, Inc., and its parent company, SPYRUS, Inc. are technology companies in San Jose, California that specialize in security and encryption software and hardware. SPYRUS, Inc. has been in existence for over 20 years and sells security devices and attendant software to government agencies, large and small domestic and international businesses concerned with finding solutions to ensure that their communications and documents retain the highest degree of security.

● Contract drafting and review;

● Negotiation of agreements and relationships with customers, resellers, manufacturers, and strategic partners;

● Review and organize company financing due diligence documentation;

● Organization and maintenance of legal department’s archives of contracts.

The Halp Network, LLC

Los Angeles, CA 2018-2023

The Halp Network is a Los Angeles based company that provides a full awry of production and post-production staffing and coordination services for creators of entertainment content, most prominently, video games. Formed in 2018 by two industry veterans, it is consistently involved in high profile projects with companies like Electronic Arts Inc. and Activision Blizzard Inc.

● Corporate formation and structural organization, including division of ownership and initial cash infusion investment;

● Contract negotiations including relating to strategic partners, vendors, and industry talent representatives across multiple platforms and unique business relationships; and

● Maintenance of insurance policies and compliance with relevant state and local laws.

Knighthawk Digital Entertainment Group, LLC

Los Angeles, CA 2018-2023

Knighthawk Digital Entertainment Group is a digital content creator that develops and creates quality properties for use in games, feature films, podcasts, television, and new media. It is owned by its two veteran content producers and creators; its latest venture was to bring together talent and to produce IMAGINE THAT!, an album tribute to the creators of classic Sesame Street songs.

● Involved in all aspects of corporate formation and management from start-up concept to operational company. Assistance with bringing projects to completion.

LokBlok, Inc.

Santa Rosa, CA 2018-2019

LokBlok, Inc. is a Santa Rosa start-up company focused on developing a suite of technology solutions focusing on providing its customers and their development teams with a complete suite of tools, technologies, code samples, and services to allow teams to focus on building blockchain applications for use in industries worldwide.

● Corporate formation and structural organization;

● Development and negotiation of finance documents;

● Editorial contributions and review of business plan documents and associated agreements; and

● Negotiation of complex and unique business and other strategic alliances and relationships.

SUSAN H. TREGUB, ESQ., A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

Los Angeles, CA 2000-2012

In-house counsel responsible for overseeing and managing corporate organization and governance, capital raising, mergers, acquisitions, due diligence, litigation, and human resources.

● Pre-merger experience including negotiating transactions and drafting deal documents relating to mergers and acquisitions, including everything from term sheets to bridge financing, including loan and credit agreements, promissory notes, subordination and security agreements; conducting comprehensive due diligence; analyzing benefits and risks of investment in and/or purchase of a target company; strategizing regarding structure and nature of investment and/or acquisition; early analysis regarding how to handle early entrance to company, relocation, hiring, firing, introducing new executives and other personnel, establishing early lines of constructive communication, creating positive working environment from putting in plants to sitting down and having hard conversations with executives and employees about what the plans for the company will be on an going forward basis.

● Post-merger corporate operations and business affairs experience including restructuring corporate organization, determining management and other personnel requirements, evaluating, and setting fiscal and operational goals and standards; establishing and negotiating relationships with strategic partners, vendors, and customers.

● General corporate transactional experience including those relating to corporate structure, negotiating and preparing documents relating to public offerings, private placements and securities offerings to investors and employees, including registration statements, PPM's, subscription documents, stock purchase, warrant and registration rights agreements; IP documentation, and drafting all documents relating to general corporate operations (including HR policies, negotiating employment and executive employment agreements, hiring and firing, negotiating location leases, negotiating with service vendors, opening an office that once was a blank space into what became an office space, and dealing with everything that comes with moving a company, dealing with threats of or the reality of litigation).

● Litigation experience, including general business litigation, managing non court matters relating to small to medium litigation matters particularly if they have merit and require settlement, resulting in company savings. Substantial experience with mediation techniques and resolving all manner of disputes. I have arbitrated dozens of cases. Working with hundreds of outside counsel and law firms. In this capacity I work with outside counsel to determine a strategy for the litigation, I keep cost controls as a very high priority, keeping in mind the cost- benefit analysis that must be done by a company and re-visiting this issue throughout the litigation process. I have also had background in US corporate bankruptcy law and proceedings.



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