I know the economy is not great right now but if anyone knows of someone needing a corporate paralegal in the Silicon Valley, please let me know.  I have great references.

MARK C. MICHELSON
Home Phone: 510/651-0349
m.michelson@comcast.net

EXPERIENCE

PARALEGAL ON CONTRACT BASIS – VARIOUS COMPANIES
4/25/03 – Present

•      NIXON PEABODY LLP, San Francisco, CA (9/13/07 – 1/18/08) -  Handled Delaware Franchise Tax issues; researched Blue Sky. Formation of companies, LLC’s and LP’s in Delaware and California; large UCC searches, as well as terminations, corrections, and filing of financial statements connected with UCC. Filed various forms with states including qualifications, surrenders, withdrawals, apostilles, name changes and authentications. Assisted with due diligence research and organization. Created and updated Capitalization Tables. Organized Minute Books. Issued Stock Certificates and filed 83(b) elections with IRS. Assisted with reincorporation from Washington and Delaware. Restated Corporations and LLC’s. Filed Form D's and 25102(f)’s. Solved day to day problems from clients. Researched Board Minutes for Stock Issuances.

•      VERISIGN, INC., Mt. View, CA (4/9/07 – 8/3/07)  - Organized/translated documents for Minute Books for foreign subsidiaries.  Created profile sheets for each foreign subsidiary minute book.  Reviewed Articles, Bylaws, Board Minutes and other documents to obtain information to apply to profile sheets.  Created files for foreign subsidiaries, SEC documentation, escrow materials and mergers. Created billing files.  Reviewed www.sec.gov for VeriSign’s S-8, 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, 13D, and Def 14A for filings.  Created form files for these filings.  Drafted Directors’ Guide.

•      VERIGY US Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (12/14/06 – 2/2/07) - Completed D&O Questionnaires; assisted with compensation table in proxy statement; organized international subsidiaries; created charts for doing business, withdrawal and annual report comparison.  Filed annual reports.

•      JUNIPER NETWORKS, Sunnyvale, CA (8/17/06 – 11/21/06) - Reviewed, compared and edited SEC documents; researched SEC documents and issues; converted documentation for SEC documents; created, reformatted and updated templates to assist with the filing of 10-Q/A and 10-K/A, statement of operations, balance sheet, statement of cash flows, revenue and stockholders’ table.  Assisted SEC Coordinator as needed.  Reconciled figures for SEC.

•      PORTAL SOFTWARE, Cupertino, CA (5/14/04 – 11/9/04, 3/15/05 – 5/18/05, 7/14/05 – 9/16/05) - Assisted with financials, liquidations/dissolutions for foreign subs and branches; formation of foreign subs and branches; filed domestic annual reports; drafted power of attorneys, incorporation and organizational documents as needed; communicated with subs and their managers, officers and directors.  Reviewed international laws for calendaring and setting up branches.  Arranged liquidations and dissolutions of foreign subsidiaries.  Maintained statutory compliance for U.S. entities and prepared in a timely manner statutory filings for applications for qualifications, registrations, withdrawal and dissolutions.  Opened and closed bank accounts, as well as changed signing authority for the bank accounts.  Reviewed documents for overseas audits.  Obtained signatures where necessary and ensured that all documents were in compliance with internal signing authority guidelines.

•      HARMONIC, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (1/20/04 – 3/20/04) - Negotiated NDAs, agreements and contracts; maintained patent and corporate records; updated IP/Corporate data bases; assisted with annual filing of 10K and other legal-related duties when requested.

•      GWILLIAM, IVARY, Oakland, CA (4/25/03 – 12/19/03) - Created deposition summaries from deposition transcriptions; reviewed pre-trial documents to create witness lists; researched press releases on witnesses; Lexis research for court cases; reviewed Motion in Limine hearing testimony for rulings on witnesses; file management; assisted with document production and depositions; audited hours of timekeepers to submit to court in class action settlements; communication with experts in obtaining documents.

AVANT! CORPORATION, Fremont, CA
1/31/00 – 6/6/02
SYNOPSYS, INC., Mt. View, CA (Acquired Avant! Corporation)
6/7/02 – 9/27/02 (Legal Assistant - Temporary basis during transition period of post-merger with Avant!)

Sole Legal Assistant

When I joined Avant!, they were faced with serious legal problems.  I was asked to take complete responsibility by using my experience and skills to help them reorganize.  I worked closely and gave support to the general counsel and senior corporate counsel in intellectual property, corporate, labor law and litigation matters.  I frequently met with outside counsel on various matters as needed and set up a system through which outside counsel could be contacted for legal questions asked by engineers and sales personnel.

•      Prepared, proofed, negotiated and processed NDAs, contracts, licenses and other documents
•      Blue Sky research/filings
•      Maintenance of NDAs, contracts, licenses and other agreements
•      Managed two very large document productions relating to labor lawsuits
•      Preparation and thorough knowledge of Section 16 filings; demonstrated experience with public company reporting obligations, including the preparation of Forms 10-Qs, 10-Ks and Proxy Statements.   ALL OF MY RESUME DIDN'T FIT INTO THIS SPACE.