Rupali Patel Shah is a senior legal and commercial strategist with a track record of driving transformative legal solutions and cross-functional alignment for global organizations. Throughout her 20+ year career, spanning both private and in-house roles, she has brought a blend of legal depth, commercial acumen, and operational execution to solve for a variety of legal and commercial challenges.

Currently serving as the Head of Legal Solutions and Alliances for North America at DiliTrust, Rupali leads strategic legal innovation initiatives and develops key partnerships within the legal tech ecosystem. Her expertise encompasses regulatory compliance, governance frameworks (e.g. GDPR, NIST, ISO 27001, DORA), AI governance, and enterprise legal strategy, making her a trusted advisor on the forefront of legal technology transformation.

Previously, Rupali was a Lead Negotiator at EY, where she guided over half a billion dollars in enterprise technology and managed services deals, designing value-centric engagement strategies and ensuring commercial compliance across high-stakes transactions. Prior to that, she served as Senior Manager in EY’s Data & Privacy practice, advising C-suite leaders on global privacy programs, compliance operations, and privacy-by-design frameworks for Fortune 100 companies.

Rupali's career also includes pivotal in-house roles: at American Water, she overhauled procurement and IP contracting practices for a publicly traded utility, and at Diamatrix, she served on the senior leadership team driving compliance, litigation prevention, and document governance.

Rupali is widely recognized for her ability to translate legal complexity into actionable strategy, foster enterprise-wide risk awareness, and empower high-performing teams. She holds a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School and a BSBA in Finance & International Business from Georgetown University.

Prince-Alex’s practice focuses on international dispute resolution, complex commercial litigation, and the firm’s Africa desk. Since joining Diaz Reus, he has successfully represented multinational clients in high-stakes litigation and arbitration matters. These include a landmark argument on the application of Florida’s newly enacted statute (§ 48.197(c)) concerning email service on foreign defendants and the successful defense against a $40 million arbitration award enforcement action in federal court by distinguishing New York long-arm jurisdiction from underlying causes of action abroad. He regularly advises and represents parties in cross-border, multimillion-dollar commercial disputes.

Before joining Diaz Reus, Prince-Alex practiced at one of Nigeria’s largest international law firms, where he routinely represented Fortune 500 companies and other multinationals in litigation and corporate advisory matters. He also interned at the Permanent Court of Arbitration/International Council for Commercial Arbitration in The Hague, where he assisted with investor-state dispute assessments and contributed to the efforts of the Informal Working Group on International Arbitration at the Hague Conference on Private International Law. As a Research Assistant at the American Law Institute (ALI) and Penn State Law, he worked on the Restatement of the Law: The U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration and Investor-State Arbitration, focusing on the preclusive effects of arbitral awards and procedural fairness issues under the supervision of Professor Catherine Rogers.

An active thought leader, Prince-Alex’s scholarly works span image rights in Nigeria—still cited as seminal on the subject in the face of limited regulatory guidance—to ethics in international arbitration. His peer-reviewed article, “International Arbitration: Transnational Debate and Ethics Quagmire,” was listed by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in its bibliography of recent writings relevant to its work. He has also co-authored authoritative guides on arbitration in Nigeria for the International Bar Association and Practical Law, and published commentary in the Kluwer Arbitration Blog. A founding Co-Chair of the Lagos Court of Arbitration–Young Arbitrators Network (LCA-YAN), he pioneered the annual LCA-YAN Moot Competition and helped reestablish a Nigerian team at the Vis Moot. He currently serves as a FINRA Arbitrator and a Steering Committee Member of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution’s (CPR) New York Africa Arbitration Day.

Corporate Counsel for Chiquita Fresh North America. Dual qualified in Florida, U.S. and Lima, Peru. Certified Mediator registered with the Department of Justice in Peru. Expert handling global commercial transactions, risk management and legal compliance. Legal Liaison and support to the LATAM team strategizing discovery and deposition issues. Specialist managing the entire lifecycle of Contracts. Completed International MBA with Florida International University. Certified Information Privacy Professional CIPP/US. Previously held an employment in-house role with Health Advocates Network, a nationwide healthcare staffing company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. Member of Sponsorship Committee of South Florida Women In House Counsel Group, Hispanic National Bar Association, International Association of Privacy Professionals and Toastmasters.