ETIENNE MUHAMMAD

• Strategic review of ISDA Master Agreements documentation for client counterparties who amend complex derivatives transactions, including options, swaps, credit default swaps, forwards and futures
• Analysis of ISDA Schedules, Amendments and updates to security/collateral, and close-out netting
• Conduct legal research and regulatory analysis of issues arising under the U.S
• Federal and state banking laws for implementation applicable to the U.S.
• Operations.

• Generated regulatory reports for global pharmaceutical manufacturers under Physician Payments Sunshine Act.
• Maintained comprehensive database of negotiated ISDA master agreements for law firms and financial entities.
• Managed integrity of financial regulatory reporting for US and European entities.
• Drafted legal documents including Complaints, Interrogatories, and Memorandums of Law.
• Conducted investigations with forensic accounting team and DOJ Fraud and Antitrust Divisions.
• Facilitated commercial real estate transactions documentation and escrow services.
• Coordinated Owners/Loan Title Policy Insurance for investors, developers, and corporate interests.
• Managed client accounts and records while upholding confidentiality standards.

• Evaluate and test Business Risk controls for key compliance parameters
• Regulatory Risk: FDPA, SAFE Act, Fair Housing Act
• Regulations AA, BB, B, C, H, V, Z, FCRA, FCPA, FATCA, Fair Lending Controls and UDAAP., OTC Derivatives Trading Operations - Dodd Frank Regulatory Reporting Team
• Reported to DTCC, previous trading day exceptions, valuations, cancellations across all Asset Classes; Dividend Swaps, Variance Swaps, Options, Forwards, Equity Swaps, and Structured Products and End of Day (EOD)
• Basel III, EMIR and MiFid analysis and various ISDA related foreign regulatory statutes
• Extensive used of Excel spreadsheets; Pivot Tables, Macros, V-Lookup functions
• Sanctions Legal Department - Anti-Money Laundering Unit
• Examined AML/BSA laws, rules, regulations, and best practice were followed
• Completed regulatory remediation project examining Sanctions list to identify true alerts or false positives
• Completed a remediation project examining Sanctions and check for true alerts or false positives.

• Consultant with a major law firm for a Physician Payments Sunshine Act compliance project
• Expectations of this project include expenditure data discovery, spend capture, and spend events review
• Remediation of contracts, invoices and other identifying criteria that needs to be audited.

• Reviewing/checking bespoke/ externally prepared documentation for syndicated transactions booked in London
• Ensuring the Business Credit financing application documentation complies with the terms and spirit of the relevant Credit Facility agreements and all Legal approvals are within the Bank’s policies and procedures
• Working closely with internal legal counsel and with external counsel through Administrative Agent banks
• Standard Documentation
• Ensured the financing structure and documentation complies with the terms and spirit of the relevant credit approval and the Bank’s policies and procedures (including Credit Risk department)
• Identified all Condition Precedent/subsequent documentation
• Engaged external counsel in relation to the accuracy of Capacity and Authority signatories and legal opinions where required
• Review of corporate resolutions and constitutional documentation.

• Managed consultant engagements inclusive of securing budgets, authoring RFPs, defining scoring and evaluation methodologies, statement of work evaluation, on-boarding consultants, and consultant engagement
• Negotiated Legal documentation with responsibility for managing a priority list of ISDA related contracts
• Managed policy compliance with CFTC Regulations with respect to Dodd-Frank and EMIR.

• Assisted with centralized data repository, maintain project documentation in SharePoint
• Identified Policies for conformity with their GRC - Governance Risk Compliance Tool application
• Researched &developed controls for Bank Secrecy Act, FDPA, SAFE Act, Regulations AA, BB, B, C, H, V and Z, FCRA, FCPA, FATCA, Fair Housing Act, Fair Lending Controls.

• Area Defense Counsel
• Counseled the troops charged with Article 15, domestic disputes, and altercations on or off base
• Collaborated solely with Atty
• Capt
• Peterson in all matters of military justice.

• Workforce Development contractor
• Fact Finder Investigator of claimant’s job separation
• Adjudication of Claim issues involving Discharge, Voluntary Quit or Misconduct Job separations.

• Interview witnesses (law enforcement and civilian witnesses) and address inquiries regarding case status, procedural issues, and criminal charges.
• Analyze and assess factual scenarios and prepare legal affidavits.