Highland Park, Illinois, United States
Extensive experience helping businesses navigate critical business/legal issues, including corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, investments, restructurings, fundraising, crisis management, hiring/firing key employees, succession planning, incentive compensation, union/pension issues, litigation and risk management, regulatory/financial/accounting issues, regulatory compliance and best practices. Significant experience managing large internal teams and projects, identifying and developing talent and recruiting, training and mentoring partners, associates and employees. Successfully built business through disciplined business development efforts and high touch relationship management. Led and co-led annual budget process for $3.5+ billion global legal services firm for 10+ years, working closely with CEO, CFO and dept. heads to analyze all aspects of firm’s operations and facilitate cost savings and operational improvements as firm grew from 8 to 15 offices, approx 3K to 5K employees/partners and more than doubled revenues. Recently launched new business Pets4Life, a full service petcare company uniquely focused on serving all of a pet and pet owner’s needs in a single, one-stop experiential setting. Pets4Life has a state-of-the-art animal hospital, pet grooming spa and salon, educational and pet-related events, training, retail and more.