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David Giampietro

Montclair,NJ

Summary

Strategic, forward-thinking executive in-house legal counsel with a track record of accomplishments achieved for public and private companies in the financial services, commercial real estate, transportation, and logistics industries. Experienced corporate counsel committed to providing corporate clients with solutions to transactional, regulatory and litigation risks. Career highlights include ground-up establishment of Legal Department and corresponding legal and administrative operational processes for international $100M logistics company, facilitating +$300M of self-storage and commercial real estate sales and acquisitions. Restructured and streamlined claims/customer service and administrative processes/procedures to create efficiencies including reducing the Average Time to Settle a Claim by more than 30% while simultaneously reducing the Average Cost per Claim by more than 20%.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

General Counsel & Chief Administrative Officer

FlatRate Moving
New York, NY
01.2015 - Current
  • 20th largest independent household goods carrier headquartered in NYC with national and international locations including Los Angeles and San Francisco with a workforce of 3,000 in the peak season and 2,000 during non-peak
  • Oversee all Administrative Departments and Support Service Operations including the Legal & Compliance Departments
  • Select, motivate, direct, evaluate, and develop staff, build, and develop teams, and resolve employment issues and incidents; promote corporate culture of high performance and continuous improvement
  • Oversee corporate compliance, identify potential risks, and plan/implement to properly address, mitigate, or resolve them
  • Develop and spearhead strategic business development/operational action plans for current and future revenue verticals including talent acquisition, development of outreach, marketing, business, finance, and operational agendas
  • Developed and implemented new KPI's resulting in increased customer satisfaction (+20%), profitability (+3.8%), and the clarity of real-time company performance to executive teams and senior management
  • Developed and implemented new legally compliant scheduling initiative and corresponding processes and procedures to reduce labor costs (-15%) without negatively affecting quality, customer satisfaction or labor force satisfaction
  • Successfully navigated the company through the highly complex process of gaining approval and licensing to provide relocation and storage services to the U.S
  • DoD personnel resulting in additional revenue streams
  • Developed and run corporate initiative to convert warehouses into self-storage facilities, increasing profitability and positioning asset for sale to REITs
  • Manage licensing, tenant notification, and construction / build out

General Counsel

FlatRate Moving
New York, NY
01.2011 - 12.2015
  • Manage all legal matters for the company, including corporate and securities, corporate governance, litigation, risk, dispute management, compliance, contracts, labor and employment, executive compensation and mergers and acquisitions
  • General litigation management as well as directly oversee the Legal, Claims and Human Resources Departments
  • Develop (in many instances from ground-up), implement and monitor strategic legal framework appropriate to company goals while maintaining compliance with industry regulatory, federal, state, and local regulations/requirements
  • Interact with cross-functional legal and business teams involved in the marketing, sale, licensing, and distribution of products and services; and addressing substantive legal issues related to the intellectual property, compliance, marketing, sale, licensing and distribution of products and services
  • Select, manage, and evaluate outside counsel; coordinate and approve litigation strategy and budget, review work product and recommend appropriate mediation/settlement strategies to mitigate the impact of litigation
  • Directly manage complex real estate transactions, development, and property management matters
  • Successfully defended/navigated multiple large-scale inquiries, investigations and claims surrounding independent contractor misclassification/joint employment and other labor and employment related matters
  • Manage U.S
  • And international trademark filings; portfolio management in respect of copyright, trademark, trade secret and patent protection as well as intellectual property licensing

Assistant General Counsel

FlatRate Moving
New York, NY
01.2009 - 12.2011
  • Alongside Outside Counsel, a Partner from Lewis Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith, as interim General Counsel
  • Initiated process to create proper legal and administrative departments, written policies, forms and procedures

Associate Counsel

ICON Investments
New York, NY
01.2008 - 12.2009
  • Prepared, reviewed, and approved U.S
  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings for numerous leasing funds
  • Drafted and negotiated leasing, lending, and acquisition agreements

Associate Counsel

Belmont Group
Washington, VA
01.2007 - 12.2008
  • Internal counsel for an international broker-dealer
  • Managed acquisitions and structured transactions for the purchase and sale of public companies

Legal Internship

Queens District Attorney's Office
Queens, NY
01.2005 - 12.2006

Legal Associate

E*trade Financial
Arlington, VA
01.2001 - 12.2004

Education

J.D. -

Delaware Law School
Wilmington, DE
01.2007

B.S. - Business Management

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
01.2003

Skills

  • Government Contracts
  • Commercial Real Estate Transactions
  • Financial Transactions
  • Legal Division
  • Startups
  • Privacy Law
  • Employment Law / HR
  • Risk Management / Insurance
  • Litigation Management
  • General Law Practice
  • Transportation Law
  • Corporate Governance
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Warehousing / Self-Storage Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Securities Law

Admissions

  • New York, Third Department, 2008
  • New Jersey, 2008
  • Washington DC, 2018

Associations

  • American Bar Association
  • New York State Bar Association
  • New Jersey State Bar Association
  • Association of Corporate Counsel
  • Bronx Chamber of Commerce
  • Transportation Lawyers Association

Committees

American Trucking Associations (ATA) (Previously AMSA), Legal Advisory Committee Member (1 of 12) & Government Affairs Committee (1 of 30) Member, 2021-01-01, Present

Certification

  • New York State Bar, Third Department, 2008.
  • New Jersey State Bar, 2008.
  • Washington DC Bar, 2018.

Affiliations

  • American Trucking Association, Legal Advisory Committee Member (1 of 12).
  • American Trucking Associations, Government Affairs Committee Member (1 of 30).
  • Association of Corporate Counsel Member.
  • Bronx Overall Economic Development Zone Member.
  • Transpiration Lawyers Association Member.

Timeline

General Counsel & Chief Administrative Officer

FlatRate Moving
01.2015 - Current

General Counsel

FlatRate Moving
01.2011 - 12.2015

Assistant General Counsel

FlatRate Moving
01.2009 - 12.2011

Associate Counsel

ICON Investments
01.2008 - 12.2009

Associate Counsel

Belmont Group
01.2007 - 12.2008

Legal Internship

Queens District Attorney's Office
01.2005 - 12.2006

Legal Associate

E*trade Financial
01.2001 - 12.2004

J.D. -

Delaware Law School

B.S. - Business Management

Virginia Tech

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