Mona R. Washington
Business Affairs Contract Consultant
Cinnaminson,USA
37
years of professional experience
Work History
Business Affairs
5 Years 7 Months- Strategic planning, contracts, and negotiations.
Business Affairs
11 Years 7 Months- Contract review and general business affairs. Compliance with rules and regulations for New Jersey churches.
Business Affairs
17 Years 7 Months- Support small businesses with strategic planning.
- Advise Silicon Valley and Israeli small businesses on range of legal and business issues and business affairs strategies, including but not limited to: internet agreement, software agreements, solar energy agreements, deal memos, and general contracts.
- Drafting various legal and business affairs documents. US technology companies and US.
- Draft and negotiate a variety of documents for entertainment clients, including actors, directors, and production companies.
Business Affairs
1 Year- Synchronize dates and bookings for individual and group clients.
- Negotiate and draft wide variety of contracts, letters, and other legal and business documents, and correspondence including regulatory, and administrative needs on the local, state, and federal level.
- Personally assist the Executive Director regarding risk assessment, liability, and strategic organizational needs and vision.
Business Affairs
3 Years 6 Months- Development and Business Affairs.
- Negotiate, draft, and manage contracts, facilitate business development strategies, fundraise, and coordinate programming.
Consultant/Vice President of Legal & Business Affairs
4 Years 11 Months- Advise computer software company on range of legal and business issues, including but not limited to: escrow agreements, database rights regulations, outsourcing contracts, investment risks, joint venture with Java boutique, digital signature development and coding, year 2000 compliance, software correction, White and Green papers, bespoke agreements regarding object oriented development (Delphi), and contractual compliance for layered products (operating systems) RDBMS), bespoke software and firewall protection.
- Differential US/UK litigation and arbitration contractual analysis.
- E-commerce architectural and advertising agreements.
Vice President of Business Affairs
3 Months- Responsibilities included management, negotiation and drafting computer software contracts (subscriber based management system, scheduling system, and advertising system), programming contracts and ancillary legal issues and agreements.
- Major negotiation, development and drafting a subscriber based management system contract (with an initial investment of approximately eleven million dollars) included issues such as: unit, integration and system testing; transactional taxation; nonconformity occurrence, correction, and implementation; ORACLE and Digital Equipment sub-licensing and third party liability issues; escrow agreements; year 2000 compliance; maintenance agreement including response center and advice procedures; future migration and client server application; and, digitization.
Business Affairs Program Attorney
2 Years- Primary responsibilities included drafting, negotiating and reviewing various agreements for prime time and children’s television including but not limited to: option and acquisition of underlying property agreements, WGA and non-WGA writer agreements, union and guild agreements (DGA, WGA, SAG and AFTRA), test option agreements, music producer’s agreements (including for use with on-air promotions), music publishing agreements, cue and catalogued music agreements (including lending agreement to the Smithsonian Institute), composer arrangement agreements, master use license agreements, synchronization license agreements, rights termination (close out) agreements, production services agreements (including movies, ABC After School Specials, prime time specials and weekend specials), series development and license agreements, license agreements for movies for television and specials (including the Oscars), recording agreement waivers and soundtrack releases for pilots and series, producer agreements, MIT license agreements, script commitments, artwork and promotional releases, loan out and talent hold agreements.
- Additionally, analyzed, negotiated, and provided legal advice on various issues including but not limited to: computation and payment of net profits, financial and syndication rules, insurance, trademark, copyright, and merchandising.
- Negotiated and drafted contracts and documentation for the network owned soap opera (“General Hospital”) regarding record company recording agreement waivers for concert footage and on-air broadcast of same.
Corporate Associate
2 Years 5 Months- Drafted, negotiated, reviewed and prepared contracts and other documentation, and conducted due diligence, in connection with various corporate transactions including but not limited to: mergers and acquisitions (including the sale of IBM’s printer division to Lexmark), corporate finance, and equity and debt securities.
- Private placement experience including, but not limited to: primary responsibility for Eleven Million Dollar power company financing as well as the preparation, drafting and consummation (closing) of all documentation regarding a Forty One Million Dollar Note and Warrant Exchange Agreement in connection with an IPO, as well as subsequent amendments.
Law Clerk
11 Months- Law Clerk to the Honorable Constance Baker Motley U.S.D.J.
Education
Juris Doctor
- NAACP Earl Warren Legal Scholar
- Harvard Women’s Law Journal - Assistant Editor
- Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Undergraduate College (Literature and Literary Theory-Barbara Johnson; Contemporary Civil Rights History-Nathan Huggins)
Bachelor of Science
- Month Study Abroad Internship: Africae/Mogadishu, Somalia
- Writing Center Tutor, Gospel Choir, and Spanish Proficiency
TEACHING
- Current: Substitute in The Philadelphia School District
- English/Communications Holy Family College, Philadelphia, PA English Composition, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ; 1993 Women and The Law, Hunter College, NY, NY
Timeline
Business Affairs
All One Consulting
01.2021 - CurrentRead More
Business Affairs
Murray Grove Renewal and Retreat Center
01.2021 - 01.2022Read More
Business Affairs
Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation
06.2015 - 12.2018Read More
Business Affairs
Saint Paul Baptist Church
01.2015 - CurrentRead More
Business Affairs
Business Affairs Contract Consultant
01.2009 - CurrentRead More
Consultant/Vice President of Legal & Business Affairs
Pro-Soft Limited
01.1998 - 12.2002Read More
Vice President of Business Affairs
Orbit Satellite Television and Radio Network
06.1997 - 09.1997Read More
Business Affairs Program Attorney
ABC Entertainment
09.1994 - 09.1996Read More
Corporate Associate
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
09.1990 - 02.1993Read More
Law Clerk
United States District Court: Southern District of New York
09.1989 - 08.1990Read More
Georgetown University
Bachelor of Science
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Harvard Law School
Juris Doctor
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