Michael Ebaugh Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Leverage significant in-house experience to efficiently and effectively advise clients regarding commercial transactions and intellectual property matters. Advise public and private companies, private equity firms, venture capitalists, and other investors in a range of corporate transactions, including critical vendor and other third-party relationships, M&A and securities transactions, and in the negotiation and drafting of related commercial agreements.Counsel clients regarding outsourcing arrangements, financings, purchases and sales of loans and loan-related assets, corporate reorganizations, and bank and fintech arrangements. Advise clients on a full range of trademark issues, including selection, clearance, prosecution, and enforcement of trademarks.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

• Conducted ex parte examination of applications for the registration of trademarks to ensure compliance with the Trademark Act of 1946 and related statutes.• Analyzed complex factual and legal questions, evaluate facts and determine questions of law in order to recommend approval or rejection of a mark for registration.• Drafted and communicated the final position of the Agency.• Communicated with applicants and counsel in order to resolve issues that arise during examination.• Trademark Customer Service Award Recipient• Award for Comprehensive Excellence Recipient

Mclean, Virginia

Lead attorney, Internal Audit; Co-lead attorney, Risk Assurance. Responsibilities include:Reviewing, drafting and negotiating multiple complex domestic and global commercial agreements with a focus on master service agreements, consulting services agreements, engagement letters, nondisclosure agreements, system implementation and managed services agreements and associated subcontracting and alliance agreements, access letters and other types of commercial agreements consistent with the firm’s risk management practices.Providing legal support on the firm’s business acquisitions and integration of acquired entities.

Managed all aspects of a substantial portion of the Firm's trademark practice group.Represented a diverse clientele ranging from local and regional mid-market businesses to public, Fortune 500 companies, in local, national and international corporate transactions.Moved with Tim Hodge, former General Counsel at 180s, LLC.

Drafted, negotiated and advised clients on commercial contracts, including asset and stock purchase agreements, supply and distribution agreements, vendor and service agreements, marketing and promotion agreements, licensing agreements, leasing agreements, loan agreements, promissory notes, noncompetition agreements, nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements and settlement agreements. Advised clients regarding a wide range of corporate transactional and intellectual property matters, including trademark clearance and prosecution, copyright prosecution, trade secrets and unfair competition, website audits, licensing, formation, business planning, mergers and acquisitions, and dissolution, corporate financing, employment agreements and incentive compensation plans.Recruited by Tim Hodge, former General Counsel of 180s, LLC.

Represented clients regarding formation, dissolution, mergers and acquisitions, and trademark matters. Drafted, negotiated and advised clients on commercial contracts including shareholders’ agreements, employment agreements, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, promissory notes, and license agreements.

Researched, interpreted and applied federal and state statutes and case law.Drafted Memorandum Opinions, Bench Opinions and Orders of the Court in diverse areas of the law.

Worked closely with General Counsel (Tim Hodge) to: review, interpret and draft agreements, including licensing, nondisclosure, innovations and inventions, employment, and supply agreements; develop legal strategies and draft documents related to litigation and arbitration of contractual and intellectual property disputes; and research federal and state regulatory requirements to ensure the company’s compliance therewith. Worked closely with senior management and the product design team to facilitate execution and protection of patent and trademark rights for new and existing ideas.

Juris Doctorate

Activities and Societies: Editor-In-Chief, University of Baltimore Intellectual Property Law Journal; Dean's Advisory Council

Bs, Marketing & Finance