Christopher Reid Email & Phone Number

Culver City, California, US

• Secondment to cover Senior Counsel duties in the Product and Commercial legal group. Responsibilities include:
• Provide full-service product counseling for multiple live-service mobile game development teams, assisting with privacy and consumer protection compliance, IP risk assessment and enforcement, terms of service.
• Research and provide practical, actionable advice on emerging legal and regulatory issues related to video game publishing and development, including data privacy, loot boxes, influencer marketing, generative AI risk.
• Coordinate cross functionally to solve urgent legal hurdles in fast-paced environment, balancing legal risk assessment with a deep and practical understanding of the business realities and priorities underlying mobile.

• Founder and Managing Partner of boutique law practice serving entertainment and tech industry companies as "outside inside counsel". Providing expert legal services on both a project and extended engagement basis to.
• Negotiate and draft complex publishing and game development agreements.
• Advise on structuring and long term strategy with 3rd party licensing agreements
• Work with client c-suite executives to identify and prioritize key legal issues and risks for the business and to develop cost-effective plans to address them.
• Organize company IP protection strategy including copyright and trademark registration, outbound licensing, and enforcement.
• Partner with product teams on a wide range of compliance issues including data privacy, consumer protection, advertising law, and IP infringement risk assessments.

New York, NY, US

• Head of legal for a high growth global mobile games publisher. Key responsibilities included:
• Guided company's legal strategy across a broad range of areas, working directly with department leads and c-suite.
• Negotiated and drafted over 20 major video game IP licensing deals with global entertainment and consumer properties, along with related third party game development and publishing contracts.
• Optimized core commercial contract templates to enable self-service use by business teams, increasing drafting efficiency and streamlining deal flow 200%.
• Led company's data privacy strategy implementation, including ongoing updates to the privacy policy and product best practices in light of GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, and other applicable data privacy regulations.
• Provided expert product counseling to all mobile game teams, advising on privacy implementation, digital advertising integration, consumer protection compliance, copyright and trademark infringement risk assessment.

Brooklyn, NY, US

• Founder and principal of one of the first games industry focused boutique law firms. Served 300+ game industry, tech startup, and creative services clients on a wide range of matters, including:
• Negotiated and drafted game development and game publishing agreements with complex terms while protecting clients’ interests and priorities.
• Assisted clients with broad range of trademark matters, including portfolio strategy, knock-out searches, filing & office action response for over 50 applications, licensing, executing enforcement actions, and.
• Counseled clients on copyright matters, including registration, portfolio protection, licensing, dispute resolution, fair use analysis, enforcement actions, and responses to alleged infringement.
• Assisted clients with privacy compliance, including COPPA and GDPR; drafted privacy policies.
• Counseled clients on company formation, governance, and early round financing, including 15+ seed round and Series A financing.

Boston, MA, US

• Associate in the Intellectual Property division. Advised global technology companies on large-scale patent, trademark, and copyright litigation and transactional matters. Duties included:
• Performed Patent and Trademark due diligence in connection client’s IP acquisitions.
• Prepared detailed legal research memos on novel areas of patent and trademark law.
• Collaborated with litigation team in drafting over 20 patent reexamination requests as part of major litigation.

New York, NY, US

• Housing Attorney with the Housing Help Program in the Brooklyn Neighborhood Office. Responsibilities included:
• Represented pro-bono clients with landlord disputes and eviction prevention in Brooklyn Housing Court
• Made weekly court appearances representing families facing eviction.
• Filed and argued motions with the court in support of client's housing needs.
• Negotiated practical settlements with landlords and assisted clients in navigating public assistance to solve housing issues.

Boston, MA, US

• Summer Associate working with the IP Litigation department. Duties included:
• Legal research on emerging Trademark, Copyright, and Patent issues.
• Preparing diligence for litigation strategy.

• Judicial Intern for Manhattan New York Supreme Court Commercial Part judge. Responsibilities included:
• Preparing and editing judicial opinions.
• Performing detail legal research and summarizing case law to support major class action commercial litigation before the Court.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Office Administrator for major New York corporate real estate brokerage. Duties inclued:
• Researched and prepared detailed real estate market analysis and synthesized information into clear presentations for brokers.
• Managing office administrative duties.
• Acting as liaison for IT and technical matters between headquarters and local office.

B.A, Chemistry, Philosophy

J.D., Intellectual Property, Privacy Law, Copyright, Trademark, Patents, Constitutional Law

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