Mark Shaffer Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, UT, US

• Help oversee the company’s legal affairs in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
• Review, draft, and negotiate commercial contracts, including customer-facing SaaS agreements, professional service agreements, and vendor agreements.
• Provide legal advice on complex technology transactions based on knowledge of the market.
• Support the company in shaping new product offerings and go-to-market approach, while achieving company sales targets within an acceptable risk framework and a global consistency on key strategic issues.
• Ensure company compliance, including regulatory, such as OFAC compliance and data privacy compliance.
• Collaborate on the development and implementation of processes to scale the business without increasing risk.

Provo, Utah, United States

• Engaged in a general business law practice handling a variety of purchase, sale and merger transactions, debt and equity financing transactions, technology licensing, and commercial real estate matters.
• Represented growing businesses in their day-to-day legal matters, including business formation and organization, contract drafting, compliance, licensing, and disputes.

• Senior legal representative providing general counsel for a nonprofit, online, competency-based institution of higher education.
• Managed the day-to-day legal operations of multiple departments, including the School of Health, Finance, Financial Planning and Analysis, Public Policy, Government Relations, and Outreach.
• Primary counsel and corporate secretary of WGU Academy, a university-controlled nonprofit corporation and college-readiness program.
• Provided strong leadership, guiding both internal and external teams through discussions and investigations to review legal matters, identify potential risks, and provide actionable recommendations.
• Communicated with each internal client and deliver general counsel related to all legal issues, including contracts, tax, consumer protection, corporate, employment, intellectual property, and information privacy.

Salt Lake County, Utah, United States

Salt Lake City, Utah

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Reported directly to the Chief Legal Officer and actively manage day-to-day legal, regulatory, and compliance operations at multiple locations.
• Worked closely with and support the legal needs of the IT, Security, Marketing, Product, Finance, Compliance, and Operations departments.
• Provided strong leadership, guiding both in-house and external teams while managing risk and ensuring compliance with related regulations and company policies.
• Proactive and strategic guidance on new and existing products, as well as legally sound marketing campaigns, advertisements, and telemarketing activities.
• Complex contract review and negotiation.
• Advice and compliance counsel on applicable consumer protection and financial services laws, regulations, and standards, including UDAAP, FCRA, TSR, TCPA, CROA, ECOA, TILA, EFTA, CAN-SPAM Act, and PCI DSS.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Pocatello, Idaho Area

Doctor Of Law - Jd, Law

Activities and Societies: Idaho Law Review, Managing Business Editor, 2005–2006; Idaho Law Review, Associate Editor, 2004–2005

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