Designed and led a 6-month, 6-country Latin American due diligence trip

Designed and led a 6-month, 6-country Latin American due diligence trip – Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Panama. 100+ opportunities analyzed across row and permeant crops, timber and animal proteins sectors. 15,000 miles traveled

Analyzed an Argentine direct investment fund into a sustainable ag production and farmland project. Fund was seeking $50MM to acquire an operating portfolio of four to six farms. Provided direct feedback on the fund’s equity contributions, land source pipeline, previous exits, management team’s experience and proposed partnerships

Guided companies from the business-plan stage through the IPO/public

Guided companies from the business-plan stage through the IPO/public company stage and beyond. Assisted companies with development-stage financing, public and private offerings, mergers and acquisitions, state and federal regulatory compliance, and SEC and exchange listing requirements. Represented institutional and corporate clients, and successfully completed numerous initial and secondary public offerings, SPACs, PIPEs, reverse mergers/alternative public offerings, private placements, venture capital and private equity financings, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, and mergers

Advised emerging and established companies in the areas of M&A, venture capital transactions, private placements, private equity financing and initial public offerings. Experienced in the areas of corporate and commercial law, financing, securities laws and hedge fund formation

Advised companies on distribution and marketing issues, contractual matters, business negotiations, joint venturing arrangements, real estate matters, technology licensing, employment and compensation matters, and intellectual property rights and non-disclosure matters

While supporting an engineering design firm in New York, made principle investments, developed financing syndicates, and orchestrated acquisitions for numerous technology companies. Worked to merge, divest or restructure selected portfolio companies

Co-founded and led a wireless communications consulting firm providing radio frequency engineering services. Recruited and placed technical and engineering personnel on projects world-wide. Worked across four continents with equipment providers and carriers such as Nortel Networks, Alcatel-Lucent and France Telecom

Founded a computer services and development company focused on programming and applications development, systems integration, and information systems support. Worked with the corporate, non-profit and government sectors. Established separate subsidiary, Advanced ADP, to specifically serve the federal government marketplace. Effectively lobbied Congress and agency representatives, resulting in Advanced ADP being processed and recognized as an official agency vendor in record time

Experienced in Corporate Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Creditors’ Rights. Led a bankruptcy team to successfully complete a bid for the assets of a major national specialty retailer as well as numerous other bankruptcy and restructuring, including some of the largest corporate bankruptcy cases

Chaired an international firm’s Emergency Response Committee tasked with developing procedures and protocols for crisis management and dealing with critical internal or external incidents. Sourced, reviewed and recommended appropriate high-level talent to add to the firm as a senior member of the Recruiting Committee

Analyzed the economic feasibility of agricultural investments, recurrent and

Performed agricultural policy analysis of extension approaches for the promotion and dissemination of crop technologies including the evaluation of pilot production of improved barley crop varieties

Analyzed the economic feasibility of agricultural investments, recurrent and investment costs for small scale irrigation development project in Kobo Girana Valley, Ethiopia

Strategic planning and new business development efforts for a variable rate

Strategic planning and new business development efforts for a variable rate application fertilizer technology company based in Greece. Sourced 35+ US and Latin American-based growers, service providers and co-ops to support corn/wheat pilot program. To date – two Argentine service-providers and one US-based co-operative with 600,000 acres under management have committed.

Sourced more than US$500MM in international private equity transactions from the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Belize, Chile, Ecuador, Romania, Mexico, New Zealand, Panama, Peru, Tanzania, Ukraine, United States and Uruguay.

Facilitated a 10-year biodiesel feedstock supply contract worth more than US$650M. Sourced the US raw material supplier, identified a creditworthy European buyer and advised both parties on matters of logistics, legal structure, finance, quality assurance, risk, insurance, and pricing.