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Daniel Galvez

San Francisco

Summary

Senior Commercial Paralegal & Project Manager at Coinbase with over nine years of experience driving complex legal projects and operational excellence. Data-driven and collaborative, with a proven track record of optimizing processes, implementing automation, and delivering strategic solutions in fast-paced, innovative environments.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Paralegal, Commercial Legal Operations

Coinbase
10.2021 - Current
  • Implement and manage contracting operations for Commercial Legal, including strategic planning for scalable and repeatable processes using Ironclad, ZIP, Knowable, Jira, Greenhouse.
  • Implementing click-to-accept public NDA workflows, creating NDA playbooks, and negotiating bespoke NDAs (300+ annually) reducing company-wide NDA cycle times by 66%.
  • Created contract repositories and managed document retrieval and review in support of Litigation, including the SEC case, while spearheading wide Ironclad workflow adoption by Commercial Legal , to support C2A commercial sales workflows, deploying templates, and optimizing the overall contract lifecycle.
  • Conduct enterprise training on current contracting tools, NDA best practices, use of AI tools in everyday flows, and presentations to every level of stakeholder.
  • Developed and managed a legal contract management system for repeatable sales contracts and commercial product workflows, integrating with sales and procurement systems to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and support post-acquisition integration of new products and services into the contracting ecosystem.
  • Lead complex cross-departmental projects at Coinbase, collaborating with Privacy and Security teams to drive strategic initiatives, including optimizing threshold amounts for compliance, streamlining security review processes, and refining question sets for operational efficiency, ensuring effective risk assessment and resource deployment.
  • Orchestrated integration of cross-departmental tools, syncing procurement platforms like ZIP with legal systems such as Ironclad, to streamline processes and enable automated, efficient deal progression.

Legal Operations

Federal Home Loan Bank
03.2019 - 10.2021
  • Managed 8-K filings and supported other SEC filings (automated the 8-K process).
  • Monitored upcoming and proposed legislation and regulation to support compliance efforts with the Federal Housing Finance Agency regulator and worked with key stakeholders to meet critical deadlines.
  • Managed Vendor Onboarding which consisted of x new vendors per year, including facilitating the completion of Vendor Due diligence questionnaires (DDQs).
  • Prepared, managed, and relayed board documents to the Board of Directors for all meetings.

Executive Legal Assistant

Grotefeld Hoffman, LLP
08.2016 - 03.2019
  • Provided support for the owner and senior partners of the firm.
  • Compiled, created, and summarized damage reports for insurance litigation claims.

Education

Dakota Wesleyan University

Skills

  • Verbal and written communication
  • High-level problem-solving and strategic thinking
  • Managing relationships with key stakeholders and vendors
  • Data/metrics analysis and reporting
  • High attention to detail
  • Adapting to new and unforeseen circumstances in fast-paced environments
  • Organization, efficiency, and process automation

LANGUAGES

English
Spanish

Timeline

Senior Paralegal, Commercial Legal Operations

Coinbase
10.2021 - Current

Legal Operations

Federal Home Loan Bank
03.2019 - 10.2021

Executive Legal Assistant

Grotefeld Hoffman, LLP
08.2016 - 03.2019

Dakota Wesleyan University

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