Wasim Amin
Two decades of cross-border corporate practice — from a BigLaw rotation to outside general counsel at a billion-dollar venture firm to architecting AI systems for the world's most regulated work. In Arabic, Amin (أمين) means trustworthy custodian — the same promise the firm's name makes in Latin: fidem.
An AI architect for professions that don't forgive imprecision.
Built a corporate law and management consulting practice serving startups to multinationals — today architecting custom AI systems for law firms and professional services. Led M&A valued at $250M+; structured U.S.–MENA cross-border deals (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt) totaling $1.5B; negotiated 30+ debt and equity investments worth $800M. Cut post-merger liabilities 70% with AI-driven due diligence.
Architect complex, multi-layered legal frameworks simulating real-world corporate transactions — M&A due diligence, IPO readiness, data-breach response, and cross-jurisdictional compliance under GDPR, LGPD, PDPA, and DORA. Design training-data architectures and multi-dimensional scoring rubrics for RLHF and SFT pipelines — the work the next generation of legal LLMs is built on.
Domain expert for a leading AI human-data platform — specialized legal knowledge for model training and fine-tuning across corporate law, regulatory compliance, and cross-border transactions.
End-to-end AI consulting delivering adoption roadmaps that reduced client operating costs 15–25% and accelerated processes 40–60% via LLM, RAG, and automation workflows, with governance frameworks aligned to GDPR and HIPAA.
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Two decades of cross-border corporate practice.
Outside GC for a $1.2B AUM venture firm — legal oversight for 100+ portfolio companies across AI, ML, Web3, crypto, renewable energy, and fintech. Managed diligence and post-investment integration for 40+ acquisitions; established multiple funds and funds of funds.
Guided 45+ tech startups through formation and financing, securing $98M. Represented buyers and sellers in 150+ real estate transactions totaling $450M. Secured 128+ business immigration visas and EB-5 Regional Center certifications driving $490M in foreign investment.
Rotated through corporate transactions, bankruptcy and restructuring, government regulation, IP, securities litigation, and labor and employment.
Led a criminal-justice-reform organization to a 2% recidivism rate against a ~44% national average, with degree-granting partnerships across Tufts, Emerson, Boston College, BU, and Brandeis.
Trained at the intersection.
Trustee Academic Scholarship (highest GPA). Senior Editor, New England Law Review. CALI Awards in Corporate Finance, Securities Regulation, Law of Entrepreneurship, and Law & Ethics of Lawyering.
A two-decade record of written authority.
Twenty-plus works across Islamic finance, cross-border M&A, Saudi and Egyptian market entry, and project-finance capital structures.
- Doing Business in Saudi Arabia: Bidding & Winning Government Contracts
- EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa: An Attorney & Service Provider's Guide
- Project Finance: Using EB-5 Regional Centers to Raise Capital for Non-Real-Estate Projects
- Meso Scale v. Roche: Reverse Triangular Mergers May Trigger Anti-Assignment Clauses in an Acquisition's Contracts
- The Implications of the Fourth Amendment in Cell-Phone Location Technology and the Government's Abuse of the Ex-Parte Process
Chairman, Middle East Division, ABA (2013–2020) · Chairman, Islamic Finance Committee, ABA International Law Division (2013–2019) · Vice-Chairman, International Commercial Transactions Committee, ABA (2013–2018).