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Redwood City, CA, US

• Lead and advise on negotiating and executing production, development, investment, and acquisition deals with game developers and owners (including game creators operating on user-generated content platforms, such as.
• Work with Games team to develop and optimize deal pipeline and contracts negotiation and execution process.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Developed, negotiated, executed, and managed content development and co-publishing, licensing, promotion, and technology innovation deals and partnerships relating to gaming, augmented and virtual reality, Web3, and.
• Served as Next Generation Entertainment team’s lead deal advisor — acted as liaison to Verizon Legal and provide Director and colleagues strategic negotiation and troubleshooting advice for deals and agreements across.

San Francisco, California, US

• Developed, negotiated, and closed content licensing and product integration deals with game publishers, developers, and esports and events organizers. Coordinated contract revision, risk assessment, and approvals.
• Created and executed analytical framework and operational structure for evaluating and engaging with independent and mid-tier game companies that have not yet established large Twitch communities.
• Successfully spearheaded initial adoption of Bounty Board product through pilot phase — including coordinating onboarding and execution processes — exceeded goals by 150% by closing 60+ deals and gathering product.
• Alliances & Corporate Development team privacy deputy — liaised with Legal to ensure team compliance with data security rules.
• Wore lots of purple

San Francisco, California, US

• Pursued and negotiated distribution and licensing agreements with game companies. Originated digital content bundle deals — including pioneering entry into tabletop RPGs with largest e-books promotion in company’s.
• Developed and executed large-scale promotions (175 k+ unit sales / $300 k - $1.5 M gross over 4 - 14 days), including creating and managing marketing and communications plans and activations.
• Drafted and reviewed software and IP licensing, distribution, and marketing agreements as company’s principal legal counsel, including creating standard templates to cover new business initiatives. Managed contract.
• Advised company and managed outside counsel on a broad range of legal issues, including IP, commercial agreements, non-profit regulations, privacy, and tax.
• Managed regulatory issues arising from routing donations to company’s 75+ featured charities in promotions. Oversaw relationships with charitable organizations featured as promotion beneficiaries. Negotiated and.

Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, JP

• Directed legal review of game content and created a new product review process for Western hemisphere studios. Worked with product development teams to ensure legal and policy compliance relating to IP and in-app.
• Reviewed, drafted, and revised independent contractor agreements, vendor services agreements, IP licensing agreements, developer agreements, joint venture and revenue sharing agreements, NDAs, online terms of service.
• Conducted trademark analysis of potential game titles and made trademark submissions to the USPTO. Managed trademark and copyright portfolios.
• Monitored legal and regulatory developments concerning privacy, data security, e-commerce, contests, sweepstakes, games of chance, IP, money laundering, and unfair trade practices, and contributed related revisions to.

New York, New York, US

• Provided legal advice to arts, entertainment, and start-up clients—including not-for-profit corporations requesting strategic legal advice—on a broad range of issues.
• Common representations pertained to: copyright and trademark advising; reviewing, drafting, and negotiating contracts—including licensing, production, release, joint venture, partnership, and talent representation and.
• Taught and developed legal education classes relating to digital media/games, Internet commerce, intellectual property, privacy, contracts, and corporate governance.
• Supervised junior attorneys and law student interns and legal fellows in responding to queries by potential clients.
• Managed and troubleshot the assignment of pro bono matters to volunteer attorneys and law firms.
• Successfully proposed and led the transition of the organization’s client intake process from a paper-based analogue process to a cloud-based system operating on a popular customer relationship management platform.

• Performed legal writing, discovery, and case management tasks for complex litigation and regulatory matters in a range of legal and commercial contexts, including M&A, finance, securities, employment, antitrust, IP.
• Wrote briefs in support of discovery motions, motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, and pre-trial and trial motions; prepared research and materials for depositions and oral argument.
• Analyzed complex corporate transactions and coordinated with business and finance professionals in preparing reports and submissions for regulatory and litigation proceedings.
• Conducted research in a range of legal and business areas, including a comprehensive analysis of all 50 states’ data security and consumer information protection statutes and regulations.

* Conducted research, writing, editing, and administrative tasks for Court of Appeal Justices.* Wrote and edited drafts of appellate decisions.

• Wrote research memoranda on constitutional, national security, criminal, and tax matters.
• Performed research analyzing the applicability of U.S. jurisprudence to Canadian legal matters.

• Drafted memoranda and legal documents, and conducted witness interviews for a trial team representing an international war crimes defendant.

* Co-founded McMaster University’s campus-wide monthly student magazine dedicated to social and community issues, politics, student culture, and the arts (first issue February 1999, circulation 10,000). * Led the development of the production process, organizational structure, advertising sales, and other funding along with two co-founders. Recruited and.

Bellevue, Washington, US

• Wrote a monthly Magic: The Gathering strategy column (entitled “The Drafting Table”) for Wizards of the Coast’s Duelist Magazine and Duelist Online during 1997 – 1998.
• Wrote Pro Tour tournament reports and interviews for Wizards of the Coast’s Duelist Sideboard during 1996 – 1997.
• Notable Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour competitor -- achievements and honors include: 1996 World Championship Quarter-Finalist; 1997 Duelist Invitational invitee; 1996 Pro Tour I Quarter-Finalist; competed in all Pro.

Jd, Law

M.A./M.Phil., Political Science

B. Arts Sc., Arts And Science And Philosophy

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