Everett Wilcox Email & Phone Number

Legal services and consulting advice regarding contract negotiation, documentation, management and administration.

Courses taught: Business and Professional Negotiations (M.Sc. in Accountancy graduate program); Business Law (B.S. in Business Administration undergraduate program).

• Directed the negotiation, documentation and contract administration of all domestic and international agreements with the external customers of the IBM Microelectronics Division (“MD”), amounting to over $4 billion in annual revenue, and including the execution of over 1,000 contracts and related documents each year plus confidential disclosure agreements.• Led a team of 35 attorneys and contract professionals world wide, located in 13 locations in North America, Asia Pacific and Europe, with a budget of approximately $4 million annually.• Personally negotiated many of MD’s largest, most complex transactions (typically over $200 million) with major international companies (Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens, etc.) in Europe and Asia Pacific.• Consistently rated “above average” on annual performance reviews; recipient of numerous awards for outstanding contributions. • Position was eliminated as part of a general layoff at IBM in 2009.

• Led negotiations for major U.S. transactions for IBM Global Services (several larger than $1 billion), primarily in connection with information technology and business process outsourcing for Fortune 500 companies.• Directed negotiation/deal teams that included technical, financial, operations, sales/marketing and legal professionals.• Managed a group of negotiation and contract specialists collectively responsible for transactions valued at approximately $5 billion annually.

ACOG/ACOP were the organizations responsible for organizing and hosting the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta. As a Senior Director, I:• Developed overall marketing strategy, promotional materials and organizational structure of ACOP’s corporate sponsorship program, which raised over $500 million from U.S. and foreign business.• Personally marketed and negotiated over $50 million in sponsorships with Fortune 500 companies, such as General Motors, BMW, Nissan, Texaco and International Paper, including supervision of outside counsel.

Partner responsible for U.S. recruitment of corporate general counsel for this multi-national executive search firm.

• A principal corporate and international business partner at Alston & Bird. (With over 900 lawyers in 9 locations, Alston & Bird is one of the oldest and largest firms in the U.S., and consistently ranks among the top 10 American law firms.)• Served as lead counsel for major U.S. and international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, domestic and international taxation and significant real estate transactions.• Acted as primary legal counsel for large foreign companies expanding into the United States (e.g., Beazer PLC, now operating in the U.S. as Beazer Homes) as well as for major U.S. corporations doing business abroad (e.g., Admiral International, now part of Maytag).

• During eight years in the firm’s Washington office (became partner in 1978; relocated to Atlanta in 1980), effectively represented clients before all levels of the Federal Government.

Law clerk to Judge Bryan Simpson on the 5th Circuit.

Juris Doctor (With Honors), Law

Activities and Societies: Executive Editor, U.Fla. Law Review; Order of the Coif

M.A. (History), History

Activities and Societies: Instructor, Department of Social Sciences Thesis: "Carlos Howard and the Treaty of New York."

B.A., History

Activities and Societies: Sigma Chi Fraternity

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