Chief Legal Officer

Scope of Work and Responsibilities for Chief Legal Officer (CLO) at SeaTrain Technology
Position Overview

The Chief Legal Officer (CLO) is responsible for all legal matters at SeaTrain Technology. The CLO provides strategic legal advice, manages risks, ensures compliance with local and
international laws, oversees contracts, and navigates regulatory environments critical to the
company’s innovative maritime, defense, and energy operations.

Key Responsibilities and Obligations:

1. Legal Strategy and Advisory

• Explanation: Providing legal guidance aligned with SeaTrain’s strategic goals
  and operations.
• Responsibility: Advising executives on legal implications of business decisions,
  including expansion, funding, partnerships, and regulatory compliance.
• Real-Life Application: When SeaTrain considers international partnerships or
  manufacturing agreements, the CLO reviews and advises on legal risks, ensures
  favorable contractual terms, and recommends how to mitigate potential
  liabilities.

2. Compliance with Florida, Federal, and International Laws

• Explanation: Ensuring SeaTrain strictly adheres to all relevant laws and
  regulations at every jurisdiction it operates within.
• Responsibility: Monitoring legal developments, managing compliance programs,
  ensuring regulatory approvals, and managing interactions with regulatory
  bodies.
• Real-Life Application: The CLO leads SeaTrain’s compliance with maritime laws,
  environmental regulations, and federal/state corporate laws, preventing costly
  penalties or disruptions, especially in highly regulated industries like defense
  and shipping.

3. Contracts and Negotiations

• Explanation: Drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and managing contracts and
  agreements critical to SeaTrain’s business operations.
• Responsibility: Ensuring contracts clearly define responsibilities, protect
  company interests, minimize risks, and enhance profitability.
• Real-Life Application: When SeaTrain signs contracts with global shipyards to
  build thousands of modular submersible gliders, the CLO manages negotiations
  and contract terms, safeguarding intellectual property and ensuring production
  standards and timelines are legally enforced.

4. Intellectual Property Management

• Explanation: Protecting SeaTrain’s patented technologies and innovations.
• Responsibility: Overseeing patent applications, maintaining intellectual property
  rights, preventing infringement, and managing licensing agreements.
• Real-Life Application: The CLO ensures SeaTrain’s patented submersible glider
  technology is fully protected, filing new patents, pursuing legal action against
  infringements, and negotiating technology licenses or strategic partnerships that
  generate revenue and strategic advantages.

5. Litigation and Dispute Resolution

• Explanation: Managing any legal disputes involving the company, protecting
  SeaTrain’s financial and reputational interests.
• Responsibility: Overseeing litigation strategies, settlements, arbitrations, or
  mediations to resolve conflicts effectively.
• Real-Life Application: If a dispute arises with a shipyard or partner about delivery
  timelines or quality standards, the CLO leads resolution efforts, minimizing
  operational impact, financial exposure, and negative publicity.

6. Corporate Governance and Board Advisory

• Explanation: Ensuring SeaTrain follows best practices in corporate governance,
  transparency, and accountability.
• Responsibility: Advising the Board of Directors on governance, legal
  compliance, ethics, and fiduciary responsibilities.
• Real-Life Application: The CLO advises the SeaTrain board on compliance with
  Florida’s corporate governance laws, helps structure effective board meetings,
  prepares required legal documents, and guides directors through their fiduciary
  responsibilities.

7. Risk Management

• Explanation: Identifying and mitigating legal and compliance risks proactively
  across the organization.
• Responsibility: Implementing risk management frameworks, policies, training,
  and protocols company-wide.
• Real-Life Application: Due to SeaTrain’s international operations, the CLO
  identifies potential legal and regulatory risks in new markets (such as foreign
  government regulations, trade restrictions, or export controls) and develops
  strategies to mitigate these risks.

8. Regulatory Affairs and Government Relations

• Explanation: Managing SeaTrain’s relationships with regulatory bodies,
  government officials, and policy-makers to ensure favorable operational
  conditions.
• Responsibility: Leading interactions with regulatory authorities, managing
  lobbying efforts, and influencing policy to SeaTrain’s advantage.
• Real-Life Application: The CLO engages directly with U.S. Coast Guard, Florida
  DEP, federal agencies, and international maritime authorities, advocating for
  regulatory standards favorable to SeaTrain’s innovative maritime solutions.

9. Environmental and Sustainability Compliance

• Explanation: Ensuring SeaTrain’s environmental practices meet or exceed
  regulatory standards.
• Responsibility: Overseeing environmental legal compliance, sustainability
  certifications, and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) strategies.
• Real-Life Application: Given SeaTrain’s commitment to sustainability, the CLO
  secures environmental certifications, advises on green practices, and ensures
  compliance with environmental laws both domestically (Florida DEP) and
  internationally.

10. Employment and Labor Law Compliance

• Explanation: Ensuring SeaTrain’s employment practices comply fully with state,
  federal, and international labor laws.
• Responsibility: Overseeing legal aspects of hiring, employment contracts,
  workplace safety, dispute resolutions, and HR policies.
• Real-Life Application: As SeaTrain scales rapidly, the CLO ensures employment
  contracts, workplace safety protocols, and international staffing policies meet
  Florida employment standards and international labor laws, avoiding costly
  employment-related legal issues.

Florida-specific Legal Considerations

• Corporate Law Compliance: Florida-specific business regulations, corporate
  governance, and mandatory filings with the Florida Department of State.
• Environmental Regulations: Compliance with strict environmental standards set
  by Florida Department of Environmental Protection, especially relevant given
  SeaTrain’s maritime operations.
• Employment Law: Adherence to Florida-specific employment laws, workplace
  safety rules, and benefits requirements.
• Lobbying and Government Relations: Managing SeaTrain’s government
  interactions ethically and transparently, adhering to Florida’s lobbying
  registration and reporting requirements.