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Legal Counsel
LOOKING FOR:
Permanent
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:
12
EXPERTISE:
Complex commercial contracts, NDAs, and vendor agreements

TorinInnovative Legal Counsel with substantive legal experience

Relevant Skills

Solving complex legal and regulatory issues, Providing strategic advice and guidance, Resolving litigation matters

Expertise Summary
  • Torin is an innovative Attorney and thought leader with substantive legal experience attained in a unique variety of settings including government, financial institutions, consultancy, and in-house counsel positions.
  • Most recently, Torin has been serving as the General Counsel of a cannabis software company.
    • Originally recruited to be Head of Compliance, he was given responsibility for all legal and compliance matters during a busy and transitional time at the company.
    • He is hands-on and passionate about solving complex legal and regulatory issues, especially those relating to the cannabis industry.
    • He works together collaboratively with product, marketing, technology, and other sectors of the business to provide strategic advice and guidance.
  • Torin leads and manages the diligence process for M&A and financing transactions and is responsible for the audit function.
    • He built a contract/vendor management program from the ground up and developed the legal and compliance function as a full-service trusted advisor for the business.
    • He negotiated complex commercial contracts, drafted NDAs, handled vendor agreements, and has resolved many litigation matters together with outside counsel.
  • Torin was a Senior Corporate Counsel, supporting the global enterprise on several legal and compliance issues.
    • He took the lead on a multi-country, $14M budgeted project designed to ensure ongoing legal compliance at the enterprise.
    • Torin was also responsible for cannabis policy and directed strategic conversation on emerging issues including hemp, CBD, and psychedelic industry involvement.
    • He traveled the globe, setting up a back-office team in India, training corporate leaders, and assisting in policy and procedure rollouts.
  • Torin also spent several years prosecuting white-collar crime in the Bronx, working at an international consultancy conducting internal investigations related to corporate misconduct, bribery, fraud, and money laundering.
    • He had a brief stint in the banking industry, working on complex white-collar regulatory matters.

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