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FreelanceContracts and Compliance Lawyer - Oil & Gas, Maritime, Clinical Research
Aug. 2025
Tulane UniversityContract Analyst
Nov. 2024 - Aug. 2025New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
TGSSenior Director - Legal
Feb. 2023 - Sep. 2024Houston, Texas, United States
Magseis Fairfield ASADeputy General Counsel
Oct. 2019 - Feb. 2023Houston, Texas AreaProactively providing strategic, commercially-focused legal advice in relation to all aspects of the company’s business activities, with particular focus on international commercial contracts, compliance and internal processes.
Magseis Fairfield ASAGeneral Counsel
Apr. 2017 - Oct. 2019Oslo Area, NorwayProactively providing strategic, commercially-focused legal advice in relation to all aspects of the company’s business activities: • Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide variety of international commercial contracts
• Acting as compliance officer and data protection officer
• Managing disputes and claims • Managing relationships with external legal advisors, insurance brokers and underwriters
• Building, supervising and training the legal counsels team
• Producing and continuously improving all standard legal documentation and procedures
Pandolen Inc.Founder & President
May. 2016 - Mar. 2017Latin America• Freelance consultant (international commercial contracts) • Owner and creator of eclectic jewelry concept brand epifania® (Instagram & Facebook: @epifaniapty) • Freelance translator - legal and otherwise - French, English & Spanish
PolarcusHead of Legal
Jul. 2015 - Apr. 2016DubaiHands-on supervision of Polarcus’ operational legal support activities worldwide: • Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide variety of international commercial contracts
• Managing disputes and claims with the assistance of P&I clubs and external legal advisors
• Supervising and training the legal counsels team, ensuring the optimal allocation of resources within the legal department
• Educating other departments with respect to legal and insurance matters
• Producing and continuously improving all standard legal documentation and procedures within the Polarcus management system
PolarcusLegal Counsel
May. 2010 - Jul. 2015Dubai• Reviewing legal documentation in tender offers - Subsequent contract drafting & negotiation
Reviewing contractual provisions and insurance requirements in tender offers issued by international oil companies, raising legal exceptions and highlighting risks, liaising with the sales/ tax/ operations/ finance departments, assisting with contract drafting and negotiations in the event of an award as well as with any peripheral contracts, issues and procedures • Reviewing, drafting & negotiating master license agreements
Reviewing, drafting and negotiating master licence agreements and related supplements for the license of seismic data to international oil companies, as well as any other commercial agreements related to multi-client projects (cooperation agreements, strategic alliance agreements, supplier agreements, transfer pricing agreements in accordance with relevant project structure) • Reviewing, drafting & negotiating a wide variety of commercial contracts and legal documentation: from client and supplier agreements to NDAs, financial guarantees, and corporate resolutions • Drafting relevant standard forms of contract and company procedures, checklists & compliance manuals: including seismic services contract, master license agreement, NDAs and consultancy agreements, the Polarcus anti-corruption procedure and CSR report • Corporate compliance and registrations
- Ensuring corporate compliance for various international subsidiaries of the group in conjunction with local corporate secretaries - Setting up various branches/ tax registrations • Insurance & claim management
- Responsible for all marine insurance matters in relation to contracts and projects
- Managing disputes and personal injury claims in collaboration with P&I club and external counsel • Training role: responsible for training and supervising all new recruits in the legal department and for providing bespoke legal and insurance training to other departments
Ashurst LLPAssociate
Aug. 2007 - Jun. 2009Dubai, UAEMergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity
• Advising local, regional and international entities in connection with the sale or acquisition of shares in the UAE or internationally (due diligence, drafting due diligence reports, deal and corporate documentation) Regulatory, Corporate, Employment
• Advising various companies on the setting up of branches and subsidiaries in different free zones in the UAE or onshore Dubai
• Putting together general corporate studies covering GCC and Middle Eastern jurisdictions
• Advising global and regional entities on regulatory issues and employment law within the DIFC jurisdiction
• Member of the Ashurst Corporate Social Responsibility Committee
Shearman & Sterling LLPLegal Intern
Jan. 2007 - Jul. 2007Paris, FranceMergers and Acquisitions team
• Legal research and drafting memos and certain procedural documents in French and English
• Legal due diligence
• Key role in the preparation of a multi-jurisdictional comparative business law study for the European Commission (proportionality between capital and control in listed companies): http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/company/shareholders/indexb_en.htm
Lexmark International SASLegal Intern
Jul. 2006 - Dec. 2006Paris, France• Reviewing and drafting contracts in French and English
• Litigation management
• Legal research and drafting various memos & presentations
• Attending inter-company Law Commissions
AGFLegal Intern and Researcher
Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2005Paris, France• Legal research in various areas of the law (including contract, tort, company law)
• Press reviews
• Webmaster of the AGF legal intranet website
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