Fred Stein is the Chief Legal Officer of Cardone Ventures, a business consulting, investment, and incubator firm that’s disrupting the massive $12T SMB business landscape. With our extensive and diverse expertise with over $1B of companies under management, we’re helping clients slash through the learning curve, guiding them straight to the strategies that are delivering results in today’s ever-evolving economy.Fred has helmed in-house legal departments for nearly 20 years, creating and scaling the legal function at public and private-equity backed enterprises in the entertainment, technology, and financial services sectors. Combining business literacy with a rich and varied legal experience, he is able to anticipate challenges and envision a big-picture-to-shop-floor approach. Joining the early management team at Redbox Entertainment as its General Counsel, Fred managed legal, risk, and other functions as the business achieved exponential growth, adding over 1,000 employees, deploying a new location every hour 24/7/365 for 2 years running, and hitting $1B in annual revenue in just over 5 years of existence. While at Redbox, he architected the prosecution and defense of antitrust/IP lawsuits against 4 of the 6 major Hollywood studios, with their successful resolutions leading to long-term distribution deals cementing Redbox as the destination for affordable home entertainment. https://variety.com/2009/biz/features/court-oks-redbox-suit-against-universal-1118007409/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-misused-star-wars-frozen-copyrights-says-judge-1086876/ A versatile team player, Fred also played an integral role in managing Redbox's interest in a joint venture subscription service, as well as an initiative selling "no junk fee" live event tickets. He represented the company’s interests with regulators and promoted policy initiatives in Washington, D.C. on issues ranging from the 1st Amendment to antitrust, and from interchange fees to the “first sale” copyright doctrine.Whether negotiating nine-figure deals or driving precedent-setting, bet-the-business lawsuits, Fred blends high performance with high integrity while navigating the complexities of fast-changing laws, technologies, and competitive landscapes. Fred served as chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s 6,000 member IT, Privacy and e-Commerce Network, and on the Board of Directors of its 2,200 member Chicago Chapter. As long-time faculty for the ACC's “Corporate Counsel University,” he coached hundreds of attorneys on how to maximize their value.