Christopher Privette Email & Phone Number

Greater Atlanta Area

Duties include providing legal support to Insurance Vertical in North America in wide range of legal matters, including negotiating master services agreements and other complex customer contracts for transactions involving information technology services, infrastructure services, and business process services; providing legal advice to business account teams on contractual matters involving contract compliance, dispute resolution, human resource matters, and security and privacy; and managing outside counsel.

Greater Atlanta Area

Duties included supporting sales, sourcing, and business units in negotiating and drafting master services agreements, outsourcing agreements, purchase agreements, product and service descriptions, service level agreements, and responses to requests for proposals/requests for information with global customers; also negotiated non-disclosure/confidentiality agreements, reseller agreements, local service agreements, memorandums of understanding, teaming agreements, novation agreements, settlement agreements, and other types of contracts and legal documents; supervised outside counsel on various issues; and rendering wide-ranging legal advice to internal clients on various matters related to on-going business functions in the areas of telecommunications, technology licensing, data privacy, security, and intellectual property.

London, United Kingdom

Performed a two-year work assignment abroad during my tenure with Orange.

Greater Atlanta Area

Duties included negotiating and drafting various contracts and agreements, such as asset purchase agreements, software development and/or licensing agreements, shareholders agreements, stock purchase agreements, stock warrants, limited liability company operating agreements, non-competition and non-solicitation agreements, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, employment contracts for officers, directors and key employees, employee manuals, escrow agreements, marketing agreements, security agreements, promissory notes, guaranties and stock pledge agreements; gained experience in corporate governance, including drafting corporate bylaws, minutes of annual and special meetings of directors and shareholders, consent resolutions of directors and shareholders, conducting due diligence investigations and forming and dissolving various types of business entities, such as corporations, limited liability companies and limited partnerships; also prepared and filed various forms pursuant to Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including Section 16(a) Form 4 and Form 5, Schedule 13D and Schedule 13E-3; andother general legal duties, including researching legal issues, drafting legal memoranda, handling assorted legal projects from start to finish, secretarial and paralegal supervision and extensive client contact.

Greater Atlanta Area

Duties included negotiating and drafting asset purchase agreements, non-disclosure agreements, stock option plans, dividend reinvestment and stock purchase plans, option grant agreements, shareholders agreements, stock purchase agreements, stock warrants, limited liability company operating agreements, non-competition and non-solicitation agreements, confidentiality agreements, employment contracts for officers, directors and key employees, corporate bylaws, escrow agreements, marketing agreements, minutes of annual and special meetings of directors and shareholders, consent resolutions of directors and shareholders, security agreements, promissory notes, guaranties and stock pledge agreements; involved in all aspects of securities offerings and other corporate financings, including initial public offerings, private placements of securities and convertible debt offerings exempt under Regulation D and securities sales by corporate affiliates pursuant to Rule 144; and researched corporate and securities law issues, drafting legal memoranda, handling assorted legal projects from start to finish, secretarial and paralegal supervision and extensive client contact.

Greater Atlanta Area

Represented public companies in securities class actions involving alleged violations of the 1933 and 1934 Acts, Rule 10b-5 and individual state Blue Sky laws; involved in complex commercial litigation, including shareholder derivative suits, RICO actions, officer and director liability issues, such as breach of fiduciary duties, corporate mismanagement and waste of corporate assets, and breach of contract and negligence claims; and primarily responsible for drafting pleadings and motions, conducting legal research, forming legal opinions, drafting legal memoranda, conducting discovery, document review and production, preparing for and taking depositions, client contact, negotiating settlements and secretarial, paralegal and case clerk supervision.

Greater New Orleans Area

Duties included conducting legal research and drafting legal memoranda regarding administrative issues facing the Court; making recommendations to the Court regarding administrative issues relating to the functioning of the Court and the judicial branch as a whole; conducting legal research and handling special assignments on behalf of the Judiciary Commission and the Judicial Compensation Commission; drafting advisory opinions on behalf of the Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Ethics; and handling various projects from start to finish on behalf of Supreme Court Justices and other Court personnel.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science And Government

Juris Doctor, Law