High-stakes commercial decisions demand clarity and sound judgment.
Paola's background reflects a sustained record of responsibility across complex transactions and disputes, spanning multiple jurisdictions and regulatory regimes within evolving business models. This work encompasses how parties structure agreements, disputes emerge, and positions perform as facts evolve and pressure increases. Judgment forms through decisions that carry material legal and commercial consequences.
Paola has held roles where legal judgment carried direct responsibility for commercial outcomes. This includes legal leadership within a publicly-listed company operating across jurisdictions and regulatory regimes. These experiences involved escalation, enforcement, and regulatory scrutiny as operational realities, where errors carried commercial, legal, and reputational consequences.
Focus
Transactions
Commercial agreements receive structure and negotiation informed by consequence and enforceability. The focus spans mergers and acquisitions, product development and launches, joint collaborations, services, licensing, employment, and corporate arrangements, with emphasis on disciplined risk allocation and durable outcomes.
Dispute Resolution and Enforcement
Disputes involving contract performance, termination, and enforcement receive disciplined resolution. Strategy addresses pre-litigation matters, arbitration, mediation, and litigation, including matters involving multi-jurisdictional enforcement risk, with a focus on leverage, remedies, and enforceable outcomes.
Intellectual Property and Technology Protection
Intellectual property rights receive structure and enforcement across the product lifecycle, where control, leverage, and enforceability shape value.
Judgment
Direct analysis, structural clarity, and disciplined execution guide decisions. Well-structured agreements reduce friction, and focused strategy resolves disputes efficiently.