Guillermo Torres Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

• Serve as Associate General Counsel, reporting directly to the Chief Legal Officer and Chief Operating Officer, providing strategic legal leadership across all business units at Mediavine.• Negotiate, review, and draft high-value, complex commercial agreements, including SaaS, AdTech, and product terms of service, while ensuring compliance with evolving industry standards and regulations.• Advise on key commercial transactions and negotiations, focusing on risk mitigation to drive innovation and support business growth in new products and services.• Lead legal efforts across departments including Revenue, Engineering, Marketing Communications, and Support, ensuring legal alignment with corporate strategy and business objectives.• Manage and mentor an attorney handling commercial and privacy matters, while overseeing the work product of a paralegal and executive assistant on specific legal projects.• Foster strong cross-functional relationships with stakeholders, proactively addressing legal issues and ensuring seamless operations in support of the company's strategic initiatives.

New York, New York, Us

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El Segundo, Ca, Us

(*Transitioned with the team from Xandr/WarnerMedia following the company acquisition.)• Serve as a business unit attorney supporting the DIRECTV Ad Sales group (including Sales, Product, Business Development, Ad Tech/Engineering, Product Marketing, and Data Analytics subdivisions) which generates over $1.76B annually.• Provide product counsel to DIRECTV Ad Sales Product's leadership and engineering teams on the development and distribution of addressable, programmatic, and other advertising-related products. Advise on issues ranging from privacy and legal compliance to patent prosecution.• Strategize, negotiate, and draft complex commercial agreements, leveraging in-house advertising products and first-party data to boost sales revenue.• Collaborate with stakeholders to establish policies to ensure compliance of laws, regulations, and industry best practices; review ads to confirm compliance with respective policies.• Managed external legal counsel and played an integral role in separating the DIRECTV Ad Sales team and its operations from Xandr/WarnerMedia, assisting with the disentanglement of contracts and tech systems during the merger and acquisition process.

New York, Us

• Negotiated agreements with advertisers and agencies for access to the Xandr ad tech platform, encompassing both DSP (buying) and SSP (selling) of consumer-centric digital advertising.• Structured, negotiated, and drafted complex commercial agreements on behalf of the Business Development team with the goal of attaining incremental revenue by leveraging DIRECTV Stream ad technology with TV networks and vMVPDs.• Led a project to update US-based Xandr platform clients' privacy agreements for GDPR and CCPA compliance. This involved implementing guidelines, drafting stakeholder correspondence, and securing buy-in from Commercial team executive leaders.

New York, New York, Us

• Drafted and negotiated sponsorship, technology licensing, and commercial agreements, catering to the needs of the Ad Sales and Marketing departments, in collaboration with vendors, agencies, and strategic partners.• Advised internal global clients on business risks, legal issues, union obligations (SAG-AFTRA), privacy matters and social media policies, as well as on US and international laws and regulations (e.g., GDPR, FTC disclosures) to ensure compliance on projects, campaigns, and products.• Strategized, negotiated, and drafted production and talent agreements for digital content created in- house as well as agreements for distribution of content across digital streaming and social media.• Developed and implemented templates, guidelines, and procedures pertaining to legal and regulatory policies governing advertising, social media, contests, marketing, and independent contractors.• Managed a senior attorney who handled programming, marketing, and advertising related matters.

New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

New York, Us

• Served as the legal point of contact for the sales and marketing groups and negotiated and drafted advertising services agreements, sweepstakes and contest rules, and other transactional agreements.• Strategized, negotiated, and drafted game technology development deals for Nickelodeon digital brands as well as development and production agreements for scripted, live-action Nickelodeon programs.• Advised global business units on legal risks, federal regulations (including COPPA and CAN-SPAMcompliance), restrictions on social media sites, privacy matters, and financial obligations.• Analyzed and interpreted production agreements, music licenses, distribution agreements, mergers, andacquisitions related agreements and advised executives on the rights and obligations of those contracts.• Supervised the Coordinator of Contract Management and law school interns.

New York, Us

• Negotiated and drafted agreements with outside vendors for products and services, monitored all company trademarks, and contested trademark applications that posed a risk of infringement.

Los Angeles, California, Us

• Reviewed and analyzed over 9,000 international distribution contracts to determine the terms and ascertain the theatrical, TV and home video markets, territories, and language rights for the Miramax Films/Disney transition. • Drafted memos on matters of legal interpretation, overreaching of rights by licensors and what rights and markets were available for Disney to exploit. • Supervised and advised paralegals that assisted with the transition.

Manhattan, Nyc, Us

New York, New York, Us

Juris Doctorate, Law

Namic Executive Leadership Development Program (Eldp) Class Of Xvi

Bachelor Of Arts, Criminology