Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Acts as external general counsel to assist clients on a variety of governance and operational issues.

Advises venture capital, private equity, institutional, and strategic investors on financing, mergers and acquisitions, and portfolio transactions. 

Counsels founders, emerging businesses, and other innovative companies at every stage of their lifecycle.

Strategically structures, negotiates, and effectuates complex financing and M&A transactions. 

Leads multiple teams of lawyers and business professionals across multiple offices, countries, and practice areas as well as external legal and business teams.

Directs multifaceted corporate reorganizations and implements governance structures for joint ventures and minority ownership investments across a wide variety of industries, including technology, healthcare, life sciences, and real estate.

Dedicates a fair amount of practice to pro bono work, advising charitable organizations and small businesses.

Of Counsel

Norris McLaughlin & Marcus

Primary practice focus on commercial law including areas of transactions, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and land use, banking and financial services, and liquor licensing and hospitality.  

Assist clients with all manner of commercial law, including formation, licensing, dispute resolution, and negotiating and drafting contracts of sale or agreements with vendors or suppliers.  

Drafting and reviewing real estate, land use, banking, and financial services agreements including commercial and residential agreements of sale or lease, mortgages, guarantees, promissory notes, and subordination agreements. 

Represent sellers, buyers and financiers in a broad range of transactions including mergers, consolidations, stock purchases, share exchanges, bulk sales, dissolutions, and asset transfers.

Provide short and long term strategic planning regarding rights, obligations, and liability on a transactional level and at an organizational level.

Associate Attorney

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Research and determine effects of local, state, federal, and international tax law and communicate findings in clear manner.

Assist Fortune 500 companies in properly documenting, securing and retaining tax incentives through drafting and negotiating items such as regulatory filings, contracts, memoranda, correspondence, and other documents and instruments.

Ensure that matters impacting client transactions and operations are adequately addressed by anticipating potential issues and identifying issues as they arise, formulating solutions, and working with team to coordinate responses.

Serve as intermediary between client and state agencies to facilitate working relationships.

Consult clients in various industry sectors expand and relocate operations with tax credits, cash grants, tax increment financing, abatements, and exemptions from federal, state and local tax.

Identify tax and non-tax savings opportunities for past investments, job creation, research, training, and other qualified expenditures.  

Analyze and calculate foreign tax credits for public companies with foreign subsidiaries.

Compile and analyze legal precedents regarding tax exemptions available in various states and offer strategies for securing applicability.

New York State Science & Technology Law Center

Developed creative solutions on the commercial development of early-stage technologies.
 
Formulated project implementation strategies on behalf of universities, federal laboratories, established companies, and start-up ventures.
 
Performed detailed analysis of regulatory and commercial risks and opportunities and advised clients on favorable courses of action.

Effectively communicated findings to client through written reports, memoranda, position statements, and various levels of meetings.

Identified and analyzed intellectual property, including its effect on patent applications and market ventures.

Consulted clients on strengthening products and working around potential obstacles posed by third parties.

Analyzed and formulated alternative strategies for commercializing technologies such as licensing, partnering, or sale.
 
Presented detailed written and verbal market analysis including evaluation of market trends, competitors, and potential partners.

Senior Associate

Rothstein, Kass & Company now KPMG

Oversaw daily operation of engagement teams while communicating status and progress.

Formulated strategies specific to client, industry and financial data to implement profitable solutions and regulatory compliance.

Prepared required filings with regulatory agencies including The Securities and Exchange Commission.

Team member of engagements including financial statement audits, reviews, and initial public offerings for clients in the service, real estate, trading, telecommunication, employee pension plan, and manufacturing industries.

Maintained strong client relationships by working with client to formulate advantageous courses of action.
 
Prepared and reviewed financial statements and disclosures, communicated with client through written and oral correspondence.

Conducted all phases of project from internal mobilization to preliminary and final fieldwork through issuance of deliverable.
 
Created budgets and forecasts, worked with management regarding proposals, tracked jobs, analyzed results and communicated findings.

Monitored and reviewed staff as well as educated staff on internal and external regulatory procedures.

Senior Auditor

I serve as a trusted advisor and outside counsel to a broad array of clients on a variety of governance and operational issues. I focus my practice on corporate governance, debt and equity offerings, majority and minority investments, private capital markets and venture investment, recapitalizations, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). 

I assist clients at every stage of the business cycle, from initial company formation, financings, M&A, and general governance to initial public offerings. I also represent buyers and targets in public-private and private-private business transactions. My clients come from a broad variety of industries including technology, software, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cybersecurity, gaming, fintech, retail, e-commerce, finance, manufacturing, real estate, and healthcare.

I help institutional, sovereign wealth, family office, venture capital, corporate venture capital, private-equity, and angel investors structure and implement investments and manage portfolio companies. I also represent private and public companies providing general corporate and strategic advice on financings, partnerships, joint ventures and M&A transactions, as well as inbound, outbound, and cross-border transactions. 

In many of these matters, I draw upon my experience in corporate governance, transactional, intellectual property, technology, licensing, dispute resolution, employee benefits, labor and employment, and tax law. My diverse legal practice and business background enable me to holistically service clients. 

I use my knowledge of evolving market legal trends, ongoingly developed by representing a diverse group of clients, to achieve successful client outcomes.

I cultivate an atmosphere of congeniality and collaboration to strengthen stakeholder relationships. 

I understand a client’s business goals, help develop a strategy to achieve those goals, and then execute towards those goals.

Brian Slough

Coded by:

Chief of Staff

Valentine Foundation

•Serve on the Mission-Aligned Investment (MAI) Committee and play a key role in advancing the Foundation’s 100% mission-aligned impact investing strategy, ensuring that all assets align with gender equity and social justice values.

• Support the Foundation’s communications strategy, amplifying its mission, funding priorities, and impact through storytelling and engagement.

• Participate in grant review and impact evaluation, ensuring funding decisions drive meaningful change in communities.

Member Board of Trustees

Noire Impact

• Lead a consulting firm focused on supporting mission-driven organizations through strategic advisory, capacity-building, events, and storytelling.

• Help nonprofits, social enterprises, and funders design effective initiatives, secure funding, and strengthen partnerships for long-term success.

• Develop and execute content strategies, thought leadership, and programming that highlight innovative solutions and community-driven impact.

Founding Principal

Make Justice Normal

• System: Power Project Advisor – Guide strategic efforts focused on systems-level change and equity-driven investments.

• Venture: Narrative Expert – Shape storytelling strategies that challenge dominant narratives and center justice, equity, and power.

• Provide strategic consulting on impact-driven projects, helping to shape funding strategies, movement-building efforts, and cross-sector collaborations.

Collaborator

Toniic

• Led community engagement efforts across the U.S. and Canada, fostering deeper connections among Toniic members in the global impact investing ecosystem.

• Developed personalized engagement strategies to connect members with exclusive resources, investment opportunities, and thought leadership content.

• Cultivated strategic partnerships with mission-aligned organizations, strengthening Toniic’s presence in the impact investing, ESG, and sustainable finance sectors.

• Spearheaded collaborations that amplified Toniic’s role in the global impact investing movement, enhancing value for members and stakeholders.

Relationship Manager

ImpactPHL

• Designed and executed content strategy focused on impact investing, driving engagement through thought leadership, events, and multimedia content.

• Led end-to-end event production, including programming, logistics, and speaker coordination, amplifying key themes in social impact, ESG, and sustainable finance.

• Built and nurtured a thriving community of place based investors, faith-based investors, social entrepreneurs, and impact-driven stakeholders.

• Developed and managed strategic partnerships, strengthening collaboration with key players in mission-driven finance and responsible investing.

Director, Community & Content

The Protein Society

• Led strategic communications and event planning, overseeing global conferences, membership engagement, and digital outreach.

• Collaborated with the Executive Director and Council to align event strategy with organizational growth.

• Managed cross-functional teams, contractors, and external partners to execute high-impact scientific conferences.

• Strengthened brand visibility through content marketing, strategic partnerships, and streamlined outreach initiatives.

Director of Communications and Events

• Led full operational and financial management of the organization, ensuring smooth transition amid leadership shifts.

• Spearheaded The Protein Society’s transition from a physical office in Baltimore to a fully virtual organization, modernizing workflows.

• Oversaw budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning to ensure long-term sustainability.

Interim Managing Director

•Designed and implemented membership growth strategies, strengthening engagement with researchers and scholars in the field.

•Managed and refined The Protein Society’s Mini-Grant program, developing an evaluation system to track impact and optimize outreach efforts.

•Led constituency outreach and relationship-building initiatives, connecting the Society with new and existing members.

Manager of Outreach & Events

•Supported grant applications and fundraising efforts, working closely with leadership to secure funding for scientific programs.

•Assisted in coordinating society initiatives, events, and operational processes, ensuring smooth execution of programs.

Program Coordinator

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE WORLDWIDE AFRICAN DIASPORA INC

I coordinated and provided logistical insights for the 2013 ASWAD Conference in the Dominican Republic. I created new communication tools for the association which improved engagement levels with members by 55%.

Program & Events Assistant

Rutgers University–New Brunswick

I developed and taught year-long classes in Africana Studies for residents in a living-learning community that provided high-impact academic and extracurricular opportunities. I aided in the development and managed a 2-week global service-learning excursion to Johannesburg, South Africa.

Global Village Coordinator/Lecturer

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Field Policy & Management Intern

As the Chief of Staff at Coded by:, I lead strategic initiatives that champion innovation for underrepresented communities in tech. I’m deeply committed to centering justice in everything I do, including through Noire Impact, the consulting firm I founded, where we support social impact organizations in achieving their missions. I’m also proud to be part of a growing collective called Make Justice Normal, a beautiful tribe dedicated to impact, imagining, sharing, and practicing systems in which justice is normal. My work is driven by collaboration, purpose, community, and a vision for a more just world.

Outside of work, I’m a wife and mother of two adventurous boys, and foodie who loves interior design!

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