Alex Fitzpatrick Email & Phone Number

San Diego County, California, United States

Greater San Diego Area

Executive team member with overall responsibility for legal, governance, compliance, promotional review, regulatory, intellectual property for commercial pharma company during transition from private to publicly listed and from clinical to commercial pharma company. Key business partner who worked cross-functionally to establish key business departments to support and enable drug promotion and commercialization.

San Diego, Ca/Paris, France

General Counsel and executive committee member for private, high-growth, international software/fin-tech company. Implemented worldwide compliance and anti-corruption policies. Review sales and commercial agreements and established procedures and team for efficient review process. Lead negotiations in closing strategic round of financing lead by HSBC. Established middle east operations and oversaw subsidiaries in Asia as well as direct reports in European offices. Advised board of directors. Managed litigation and compliance matters with state, federal and international regulatory bodies.

Greater San Diego Area

Managed legal affairs, including intellectual property, regulatory and QA/QC departments as executive and Section 16 officer for publicly traded, NASDAQ-listed biotechnology company. Structured and negotiated a series of key strategic licensing, collaboration, and asset sale transactions culminating in company's ultimate sale to BASF, the world's largest chemical company.Lead negotiations/transactions and managed relationships with large multinational business partners, including Asahi, British Petroleum (BP), BASF, Bunge, Cargill, Dupont, DSM, Novus International, Syngenta and others. Advised board of directors, handled all public company SEC reporting and corporate governance and compliance. Managed/assisted with all aspects of product commercialization, including overall responsibility for regulatory approvals (including FDA, EPA, and others). Created and implement policies and strategies for company intellectual property protection and commercialization. Managed all aspects of company litigation and dispute resolution.

Greater San Diego Area

Senior management team member of Blackbaud (Nasdaq: BLKB) following acquisition of Kintera. Partnered with leaders of global corporate and business development with primary responsibility for strategic initiatives, M&A and business development opportunities. Assisted with transition of numerous acquisitions and penetration into new markets, including strategic relationship with VISA.

San Diego, Ca

Managed legal and corporate affairs for NASDAQ listed technology (SAAS) company; supervised legal function as member of Kintera's executive team. Successfully negotiated, structured and managed sale of company in public tender offer to strategic acquiror, Blackbaud. Structured, evaluated and executed more than a dozen merger/acquisition transactions (including stock, asset, and cash). Oversaw/developed policies for online privacy, data security, and other internet/software compliance matters. Managed company equity plans (stock options/ESPP), company securities trading policy and other corporate equity matters. Developed sales compensation plans. Prepared SEC filings/registration statements and advise on Sarbanes-Oxley matters. Managed all aspects of litigation matters including successful settlement of numerous litigations on favorable terms, including dismissal of major class action shareholder derivative suit.

Greater Los Angeles Area/San Diego

Lead teams in the analysis, negotiation and execution of numerous divestitures of major entertainment division of France-based multinational company. Support general counsel/corporate legal group on a variety of legal matters relating to disclosure, privacy and entertainment.

Greater San Diego Area

Senior Associate in corporate/business department. Advise biotech/life sciences, software, telecom and other technology companies ranging from startup to large multi-billion dollar nasdaq and NYSE listed corporations, on a variety of corporate finance, licensing, M&A, collaborations, IP management, governance, '34 Act SEC filings, including, IPOs, public and private stock and cash mergers, private/venture backed financings, 144A offerings, S-1, S-3, S-4, S-8 SEC registration statement filings. Advise public and private boards of directors (and committees) and management on corporate governance and Sarbanes-Oxley. Representative clients include QUALCOMM, Allergan, Ionis Pharmaceuticals (formerly Isis, acted as in-house counsel).

London, United Kingdom

Senior corporate associate in London office of New York based law firm (Rogers & Wells), which merged with Clifford Chance to become the world's largest law firm. Advised European biotech, software, telecom and other technology companies in corporate finance, securities, and M&A practice. Representative transactions include: * IPO for Sweden-based biotech (medical device) company* NYSE listing for multi-billion dollar France-based systems integrator* Nasdaq listing/IPO for and Ireland-based internet security company* Cross-border acquisition by Sweden-based telecom company of US (Florida-based) target* Represent Norway's then second largest petroleum company in proxy fight with France-based competitor.

Greater San Diego Area

Represented technology and other companies and investment banks in corporate securities and project finance practice including equity offerings and construction and finance multi-billion dollar co-generation power plants based in Asia and elsewhere.

Jd

Activities and Societies: Associate Editor, International Tax & Business Lawyer

Bs, Mathematics