Melisa Mccoy-Evans Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Fremont, CA, US

• Manage and mentor a global team of commercial attorneys, and act as a point of escalation.
• Effectively handle high volume of deals with a focus on accelerating and streamlining the negotiation cycle.
• Partner, influence and proactively collaborate with Sales to provide training and strategies to effectively close deals faster.
• Act as a Legal business partner to sales leadership providing general legal advice on deal process, and contract management.
• Counsel sales leadership during negotiations regarding product, data security, and privacy process issues.
• Collaborate with project team in standardization of contracts and playbooks to be in line with company policy and risk tolerance.

Fremont, CA, US

*Partner with senior executives to develop new lines of business by drafting, negotiating and closing joint development agreements.*Negotiate and draft commercial contracts for data storage systems and cloud storage.*Advise sales, marketing, procurement, finance, IT, and operations on commercial contract terms.*Develop compliance strategies with.

*Reviewed and negotiated commercial contracts, including PaaS for crowdsourcing data projects, and login payment efficiencies, software license agreements (inbound and outbound), Master Service Agreements, Statements of Work, Design and Manufacturing Sales Agreements, Restricted Use Agreements, SaaS contracts, and co-marketing agreements. *Negotiated Data.

• As a solo practitioner, I focused on commercial transactions, intellectual property, start-up businesses, real estate, and employment law.Specific matters include:
• Drafted Licensing Agreements and Sales Representative Agreements for international distribution of intellectual property.
• Negotiated Master Services Agreements for graphic arts design business regarding new application for Ipad.
• Resolved defaulted commercial services agreement and structured repayment for client.
• Counseled client regarding breaches & client options under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
• Negotiated and favorably settled gender discrimination and FMLA case against Fortune 500 international communications company for individual.

San Jose, CA, US

• Drafted and negotiated licensing, distribution, non-disclosure, OEM, and technical services agreements.
• Drafted licenses and warranties for networking systems clients.
• Successfully mediated in favor of on-line gaming company a patent and trade secret dispute.
• Defensed commercial real estate brokerage claim and prevailed on cross-claim.
• Obtained binding arbitration award for developer client against general contractor and framer.
• Evaluated and favorably negotiated copyright and trade dress dispute.

• Negotiated settlements on behalf of technology clients regarding distribution, contract and licensing disputes.
• Drafted licensing agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and intellectual property asset assignments.
• Drafted joint venture agreements, buy/sell agreements, shareholder agreements, LLC operating agreements, commercial leases and construction contracts.
• Incorporated small businesses.
• Participated in trial team that procured a $20 million verdict in a complex products liability case.
• Prevailed on land use appeal at Sixth District involving improper approval of Environmental Impact Report.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Political Science, International Relations Emphasis

Juris Doctor (J.D.)