Neil Peretz

Summary

Leadership and Management • Recruited and managed teams (legal, tech, product, ops) of up to 100, with up to 9 direct reports. • Co-founded and ran two venture-backed tech companies with successful exits. Strategic Transactions and Financings • Led both stock- and asset-based M&A deals. • Managed 30+ venture and private equity financings as a principal and/or inside counsel. • Took company public through merger with shell company. Process Optimization and Innovation • Built AI tech and systems to automate analysis and implementation of >100K contracts for major banks and tech companies. • Scaled up IP enforcement and prosecution for multi-brand company operating in 50+ countries. • Built compliant operational processes for 15+ highly regulated financial service products (billions of dollars) for consumers and small business. • Co-inventor on multiple patents. Regulatory Compliance • Co-Founder of Office of Enforcement of CFPB. • DOJ lead counsel to DOL, GSA, HUD, GNMA, FCC, SBA, Medicare (CMS), and DoD on matters involving intersection of regulatory compliance and large sums of money. • Successfully lobbied for changes to implementation of federal communications and small business lending rules. • Securities and Exchange Commission law clerk. Litigation and Crisis Management • Lead counsel for high stakes business litigation in Delaware, California, New Jersey, Maryland, Wisconsin, Nevada, Ohio. • Managed legal and compliance responses for international data breaches and security incidents requiring regulatory reporting. • Managed all legal and compliance requirements for corporate recapitalizations and layoffs. International • Established JV companies in Australia and UK. • Legal researcher for European Commission in Brussels. (And completed LLM in EU Law). • Setup subsidiary in India. • Lead fraud investigation of Dutch subsdiary. • Established key manufacturing partnerships in Japan, HK, and China. • Licensed Solicitor of England & Wales and Ireland. EU Citizen. • Former U.S. Commercial Attache to China. Licensed Foreign Affairs Attorney in Taiwan. AI Expertise • Founded, ran, and sold venture-backed AI enterprise SaaS company. • For fintech, led education and advocacy with federal bank regulators on applying AI to consumer credit underwriting. • Lead legal and regulatory policy advice on Applied AI for WooCommerce and WordPress, including advocacy on emerging EU laws. • Author of AI articles. Speaker on AI at podcasts and schools (e.g., Stanford), and with industry analysts (e.g., Forrester). CIPP/US. Conversant in Mandarin and Spanish.