Bradley Sussman

Identify and pursue new business opportunities to expand the company’s client base.

Develop and execute sales and marketing strategies to achieve revenue targets.

Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and networking functions.

Develop and manage budgets, forecasts, financial performance and metrics to ensure profitability of the business unit.

Promote thought leadership through speaking engagements, publications, and industry contributions.

Identify and implement new technologies and methodologies to enhance service offerings.

Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing team of professionals, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and excellence.

Oversee project management and transaction teams to ensure timely and within budget project completion.

Responsible for ensuring that the delivery of services meets or exceeds client expectations and industry standards.

Supervise monitorships, compliance reviews and manage complex investigations focusing on issues specific to the construction industry such as, prevailing wage, M/W/DBE fraud, theft, and safety.

Develop and review compliance programs and standard operating procedures, including the determination of “best practices” for public and private entities.

Work with clients to design strategies, policies and procedures to provide intelligence and investigative support for construction projects.

Work with clients to ensure regulatory compliance demands are met and to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities that can lead to fraud.

Served as legal advisor to the Board of Directors, CEO, and executive management team.

Directed all legal activities of the company, including oversight of outside counsel; interacted with government and regulatory agencies; managed all aspects of litigation matters; counseled the estimating, purchasing, and project management departments on best practices; contract review and analysis; managed all legal aspects of the company’s agreements with financial institutions, banks, insurance and bonding companies; and ensured compliance with all licenses, permits and contract pre-qualification requirements.

Managed the day-to-day implementation and operation of the company’s ethics and compliance program. Reviewed and modified business policies and procedures to ensure compliance with applicable laws; supervised the compliance program and maintained the company’s policies and procedures, ensuring employee training related to such polices; and worked with the CEO and executive management team on the progress of compliance oversight.

Worked collaboratively with executive management team to draft and implement company legal policies and procedures related to safety, human resources, IT, and financial matters.

Represented construction managers, general contractors, owners, and developers in preventative practices and the resolution of complex construction disputes including claim management, delay and impact claims, construction and design defects, lien foreclosure actions, extra work claims, and sub-contractor defaults.

Appeared in New York State Supreme and New York District Courts for oral arguments, hearings, and court conferences.

Drafted litigation pleadings and related motion papers and memoranda of law.

Managed complex investigations for corporate clients and personnel involving civil and criminal regulatory matters including cases in which the allegations concerned false claims, securities fraud, larceny, money laundering, and non-compliance with local, state, and federal statutes.

Managed large-scale internal integrity investigations and negotiations with federal and state prosecutors and civil regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, Internal Revenue Service, and New York City Department of Investigation to negotiate settlements and dispositions on behalf of corporate and individual clients.

Managed teams of attorneys and support staff for large scale electronic document reviews and the production of documents to Federal and state prosecutors and civil regulators on behalf of corporate and individual clients.

Prepared clients for: interviews with Federal and state prosecutors and civil regulators; investigatory depositions before the Attorney General's Office, civil depositions, Grand Jury appearances; and testimony for hearings before the Environmental Control Board.

Lead prosecutor on cases involving cybercrime and identify theft, fraud, grand larceny, bank robbery, narcotics possession and sale, weapons possession, domestic violence, sexual assaults, gang assaults and other violent crimes.

Successfully presented over 50 cases to the Grand Jury resulting in indictments.

Interviewed and debriefed defendants, complaining witnesses, confidential informants, and police officers and prepared witnesses to testify before the Grand Jury, evidence suppression hearings and trials.

Conducted suppression and preliminary hearings, jury and bench trials and second-chaired homicide trials in New York State Supreme Court.