Paul Swegle

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Chief Legal Officer at Molecular Testing Labs; General Counsel at CareXM, Observa, Chapterly, Vincerix, Hello Practice, Routora, and xPhaze; SaaS Founder; Business Law Professor; Author; Former SEC & DOJ @ Molecular Testing Labs
Paul Swegle's Location
Seattle, Washington, United States, United States
About Paul Swegle

Entrepreneurial, revenue-driving general counsel, trusted advisor, and experienced leader who enjoys collaborating to innovate and create. GC/CLO to companies in healthcare, fintech, e-commerce, SaaS, and retail tech. Former SEC/DOJ.Exits:- Helped build and sell businesses to Capital One, Abbott, ING, and Nortek- Porch IPO (2020)Priorities as CLO/GC: - build and lead successful teams- collaborate across departments - set and execute overall legal/regulatory strategy- leverage expertise to solve problems- drive business development and revenue growth - develop and execute IP strategy- negotiate and draft commercial agreements- remove barriers for business colleagues- support product/service development - manage risks within agreed boundaries- lead corporate governance and guide board- prevent and resolve disputes- evaluate and execute civil litigation strategy- collect A/R and other debts- establish and oversee compliance regimes - co-lead financing/M&A transactionsLegal Expertise- corporate governance- advising boards of directors on law/governance - commercial agreements- debt and equity finance- securities regulation- IPO-prep and public company reporting- mergers and acquisitions - strategic relationships- IP licensing- copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets- privacy and data security- regulatory compliance regimes - marketing and promotions law- employment/labor law- litigation/alternative dispute resolutionIndustry Experience - SaaS - B2B - financial services/fintec - consumer products - health/medical software and devices - virtual health/telehealth - e-commerce - retail and marketing technology - proptech - blockchain/cryptocurrency - natural resourcesProfessorships - Seattle U School of Law - Gonzaga School of LawCourses Taught - Corporations - Counseling StartupsPublished Books - Contract Drafting and Negotiation (2018) - Startup Law and Fundraising (2020)Community/Professional Activities - Board of Governors - WA State Bar (WSBA) (2017 – 2020) - Advisory Board - SU Law, Innovation and Technology LLM (2018) - Chair – WSBA Corporate Counsel Section (2015 – 2017) - Member – WA Supreme Ct Bar Structure Workgroup (2018 - 2019) - Member – WSBA Securities Law Committee (2012 – Present) - Board Member - Alliance for Pioneer Square BIA (2008 - 2022) - Board President – Bellevue College Foundation (2012 - 2014) - Fed Court Admissions - Eastern and Western WA Federal Dist Courts - Corporate Counsel of the Year - Puget Sound Business Journal (2012)

Paul Swegle's Current Company Details
Molecular Testing Labs

Molecular Testing Labs

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Chief Legal Officer at Molecular Testing Labs; General Counsel at CareXM, Observa, Chapterly, Vincerix, Hello Practice, Routora, and xPhaze; SaaS Founder; Business Law Professor; Author; Former SEC & DOJ
Paul Swegle Work Experience Details
  • Molecular Testing Labs
    Chief Legal Officer
    Molecular Testing Labs Feb 2023 - Present
    Vancouver, Washington, Us
    Chief Legal Officer responsible for managing all legal matters, developing law department team, and collaborating cross-departmentally to support all commercial, financial, and strategic goals. Molecular Testing Labs, "MTL," is empowering lives at the molecular level. MTL believes that everyone should have access to diagnostics and better decision-based healthcare. MTL supports traditional and telehealth clinics, research universities, and state health departments.
  • Carexm
    General Counsel & Secretary
    Carexm Nov 2020 - Present
    Lehi, Utah, Us
    Chief legal officer responsible for managing all legal matters and collaborating cross-departmentally to support all commercial, financial and strategic goals. CareXM is leading the way in virtual health technology and focused solely on healthcare, CareXM is transforming the way that care is delivered. Powered by the most advanced virtual health technology, CareXM serves hospitals, clinics, physicians, primary care providers, hospice, home care, and other healthcare providers, and is staffed with clinical nurses and non-clinical healthcare professionals trained to help patients and to support healthcare teams around the clock. CareXM's turnkey solution automatically connects each patient directly to a nurse who has the background information they need to help the patient.
  • Observa
    General Counsel & Secretary
    Observa Dec 2015 - Present
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Chief legal officer responsible for managing all legal and compliance matters and collaborating cross-departmentally to support Observa's commercial, financial, and strategic goals. Observa lets companies see their products on the shelves of any store any time and anywhere, so they can check pricing, availability, special promotions or what the competition is up to. Other uses for Observa's robust and highly flexible crowdsourced data collection, analysis and reporting platform include monitoring and collecting data on franchise and chain operations, outdoor advertising, public and private infrastructure and geographically dispersed development projects.
  • Chapterly
    General Counsel & Secretary
    Chapterly Nov 2021 - Present
    Austin, Texas, Us
    Chief legal officer responsible for managing all legal and compliance matters and collaborating cross-departmentally to support Chapterly's commercial, financial, and strategic goals. Chapterly is purpose-built by best-selling authors to be the best authoring app to get published.
  • General Counsel Audit, Inc.
    Founder/Ceo
    General Counsel Audit, Inc. Nov 2024 - Present
    Founder/CEO
  • Routora
    General Counsel & Secretary
    Routora May 2022 - Present
    Dallas, Tx, Us
    Chief legal officer responsible for managing all legal and compliance matters and collaborating cross-departmentally to support Routora's commercial, financial, and strategic goals. Routora is route-planning made easy. An optimization tool powered by Google Maps to give you the fastest, most cost-efficient route, by rearranging your stop order. Routora's apps and chrome extension take the route you enter in Google Maps and re-arrange your selected stops to provide the fastest and most efficient route. Works for vehicles, bikes, and pedestrians, and is compatible with 74 languages.
  • Vincerix
    General Counsel & Secretary
    Vincerix Feb 2023 - Present
    Chief legal officer responsible for managing all legal and compliance matters and collaborating cross-departmentally to support Vincerix's commercial, financial, and strategic goals. Vincerix is building data, content, and tooling for smarter, faster decision-making in sports betting markets.
  • Hello Practice
    General Counsel & Secretary
    Hello Practice May 2023 - Present
    Chief legal officer responsible for managing all legal and compliance matters and collaborating cross-departmentally to support Hello Practice's commercial, financial, and strategic goals. HelloPractice's state-of-the-art AI-powered solutions simplify the work of healthcare professionals, freeing them from tedious administrative burdens and reducing the need for expensive external services.
  • Seattle University School Of Law
    Adjunct Law Professor
    Seattle University School Of Law Jan 2019 - Present
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Adjunct law professor teaching “Counseling Startups: Law, Regulation, and Fundraising” to inspire and educate future business lawyers, particularly around the professional challenges and rewards of advising and supporting entrepreneurs and their startups. Profile: https://law.seattleu.edu/faculty/profiles/adjunct/paul-swegle
  • Gonzaga University School Of Law
    Adjunct Law Professor, Former Executive In Residence
    Gonzaga University School Of Law May 2021 - Present
    Spokane, Wa, Us
    Adjunct law professor teaching "Counseling Startups: Law, Regulation, and Fundraising" to inspire and educate future business lawyers, particularly around the professional challenges and rewards of advising and supporting entrepreneurs and their startups. Taught "Corporations" Fall of 2023/2024. Executive in Residence responsibilities included teaching, public lectures, mentoring students, and other agreed roles to support the mission of GU Law's Center for Law, Ethics & Commerce.
  • Business Law Seminar Group
    Founder/Owner
    Business Law Seminar Group Aug 2016 - Present
    Seattle, Washington, Us
    SaaS, publishing, seminars, and consulting. BLSG distributes books on entrepreneurship and business law, publishes the StartupGC Blog (https://www.startupgc.us/) and will soon launch the SaaS platform called The General Counsel Audit - a Carfax for startups.
  • Polyvascular
    General Counsel & Secretary
    Polyvascular Jan 2022 - Feb 2024
    Houston, Texas, Us
    Served as chief legal officer responsible for managing all legal matters and collaborating cross-departmentally to support PolyVascular's commercial, financial, and strategic goals. PolyVascular was formed to improve the lives of children with congenital heart disease (CHD) through the development of a transcatheter pulmonary valve (PV) that employs polymeric leaflets, rather than the biologically-derived leaflets used today.
  • Kinsel Law Offices, Pllc
    Of Counsel - Business Attorney
    Kinsel Law Offices, Pllc Jun 2012 - Jan 2024
    For 12 years, served as outside counsel to companies in several industries, including financial services, consumer products, cloud security, and online marketing services - providing guidance, assistance and representation in many areas, including regulatory compliance, corporate governance, fundraising, commercial agreements, employment law, intellectual property, and litigation.
  • Porch Group
    Senior Corporate And Securities Counsel
    Porch Group Sep 2019 - Sep 2021
    Seattle, Washington, Us
    Worked collaboratively with colleagues across every department to launch and support new services, enter into strategic commercial relationships, raise operating capital, and manage and resolve disputes and regulatory matters. Played a key role in forming and launching the company's home and auto insurance brokerage, closing critical financings, managing corporate governance, and taking the company public through a SPAC IPO that closed on December 24, 2020. Porch Group is a vertical software and insurance platform that helps homebuyers move, maintain, and fully protect their homes. A leader in home services software-as-a-service (“SaaS”), Porch has built relationships with approximately 30 thousand companies that are key to the home-buying transaction, such as home inspectors, mortgage companies, and title companies, and built a wholly-owned insurance agency from the ground up.
  • Corporate Counsel Section, Wa State Bar Association
    Chair
    Corporate Counsel Section, Wa State Bar Association Sep 2015 - Nov 2020
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    The Corporate Counsel Section has approximately 1,200 members, including in-house counsel from hundreds of Washington's most dynamic companies and non-profit organizations. The Section provides exceptional educational, professional development and networking opportunities for its members. Programming is focused on helping in-house counsel develop and maintain the skills and knowledge necessary to perform at the highest levels in serving their organizational clients and constituents.
  • P2 Solutions Group Llc
    General Counsel
    P2 Solutions Group Llc Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Served as chief legal officer responsible for managing all legal and compliance matters and collaborating cross-departmentally to support P2's commercial, financial, and strategic goals. P2, a casualty of the COVID Pandemic, was a value-added reseller of technology systems and services and also designed and created edge-computing applications with machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities for global technology manufacturers.
  • Newyu
    General Counsel & Secretary
    Newyu Jul 2015 - May 2020
    Served as Newyu's chief legal officer through its sale to Abbott Laboratories in 2020. Managed all legal and compliance matters and collaborated cross-departmentally to support Newyu's commercial, financial, and strategic goals. Newyu developed, hosted, and managed FDA-regulated platforms and systems for handling sensitive personal health information around the globe, powering information capture, management and protection for leading medical device manufacturers. Duties included responsibility for day-to-day legal matters as well as oversight of global regulatory responsibilities. Helped lead exit sale in May 2020 to Abbott Laboratories and continued to advise Abbott for approximately eighteen months.
  • Breathometer
    General Counsel & Secretary
    Breathometer Jul 2017 - Dec 2018
    Burlingame, Ca, Us
    Served as chief legal officer responsible for managing all legal and compliance matters and collaborating cross-departmentally to support Breathometer's commercial, financial, and strategic goals. Breathometer was a VC-backed innovator in breath analysis technology. Its mission was to build the world’s first portable breath analysis platform to help people make smarter decisions, improve healthcare and to save lives. Breathometer developed innovative breath sensing technology combined with superior design, and usability to deliver cutting edge digital health products.
  • Payment Gear
    Acting General Counsel
    Payment Gear Mar 2013 - Jul 2017
    Sheridan, Wy, Us
    The Payment Gear API offers a quick mobile commerce payment solution without having to worry about hosting, security, and scaleability.
  • Numera
    General Counsel
    Numera Sep 2013 - Jun 2015
    Carlsbad, California, Us
    Before the sale of substantially all of Numera's assets to publicly traded Nortek in June 2015 and its renaming to Newyu, Numera provided cloud-based and platform-based telehealth + telecare monitoring solutions that could be white-labeled for third-party providers of Independent Living, Chronic Condition Management, and Transitions in Care services.
  • Venuelabs
    Acting General Counsel
    Venuelabs Oct 2012 - Jun 2015
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    In June 2015, Venuelabs was sold to Groupon. Venuelab's mission is to connect brands to their local customers, by transforming social media and location-based consumer content into actionable business insights.
  • Zenbanx
    Acting General Counsel
    Zenbanx Dec 2012 - Aug 2013
    Claymont, De, Us
    Served as Zenbanx's acting general counsel for a nine-month period, playing an instrumental role in closing a $25M VC financing and helping to lay a strong legal, regulatory, and commercial foundation for the company. Led key talks with the FDIC and state banking regulators, seeking regulatory support for Zenbanx's revolutionary financial services model. Zenbanx created a mobile multi-currency account for people who live, work or travel across borders frequently. Zenbanx was acquired by SoFi for $100M on Feb 1, 2017.
  • Capital One Sharebuilder, Inc.
    General Counsel, Secretary, Governance Committee
    Capital One Sharebuilder, Inc. May 2000 - Jun 2012
    Chief legal officer responsible for managing all legal and compliance matters and collaborating cross-departmentally to support VC-backed ShareBuilder's commercial, financial, and strategic goals. ShareBuilder was a dominant player in online brokerage, opening more than 1,000 consumer accounts every day for many years. Online banking leader ING DIRECT acquired online brokerage leader ShareBuilder in 2007. Capital One Financial acquired both ING DIRECT and ShareBuilder in February 2012.
  • Ing Direct
    Management Committee
    Ing Direct Nov 2007 - Feb 2012
    Participated in strategic planning for the combined online bank and brokerage businesses of ING Direct and ShareBuilder and provided intercompany legal and regulatory counsel.
  • Plum Creek
    Director, Law
    Plum Creek 1996 - 2000
    Us
    Played key roles in all debt and equity financings, SEC reporting, M&A transactions, regulatory compliance, and litigation for Plum Creek, then the largest private timberland owner in the U.S., operating manufacturing facilities in six states. Weyerhaeuser later acquired Plum Creek for $8.4B.
  • U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission
    Attorney, Division Of Corporation Finance
    U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission 1994 - 1996
    Washington, Dc, Us
    Examiner for IPOs, mergers, exchange offers, spin-offs and other transactions. Provided guidance on disclosure and accounting issues and referred matters to SEC Enforcement.
  • U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission
    Attorney, Division Of Enforcement
    U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission 1988 - 1994
    Washington, Dc, Us
    Investigated and litigated securities violations, including insider trading, securities fraud, sales of unregistered securities, and books and records violations.
  • U.S. Department Of Justice
    Special Assistant United States Attorney
    U.S. Department Of Justice 1990 - 1993
    Washington, Dc, Us
    Served two appointments as a Special Assistant United States Attorney to pursue criminal prosecutions of federal securities law violations.
  • K&L Gates
    Summer Associate
    K&L Gates Jun 1987 - Aug 1987
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us
    2L Law Summer Associate. Worked on a wide variety of matters, including wireless M&A transaction, 50-state shopping mall asbestos research project, significant litigation matter involving NYSE-listed medical products distributor, and various startup legal matters.
  • Burlington Northern
    Summer Legal Intern
    Burlington Northern Jun 1986 - Aug 1986
    Washington, Dc, Us
    Performed legal research and supported a variety of financing and M&A transactions as a summer law intern at Burlington Northern, Inc., then an NYSE-listed, Dow 50 company.
  • Seattle City Attorney'S Office
    Intern
    Seattle City Attorney'S Office Jun 1984 - Aug 1984
    Seattle, Washington, Us
    Legal internship. Performed legal research; handled and won a slip and fall case in favor of the City of Seattle.

Paul Swegle Skills

Corporate Governance Mergers And Acquisitions Corporate Law Securities Regulation Intellectual Property Start Ups Litigation Privacy Law Employment Law Legal Advice Leadership Finance Contract Negotiation Dispute Resolution Commercial Litigation Copyright Law Risk Management Acquisitions Arbitration Patents Trademarks Mediation Mergers Funding Strategic Partnerships Venture Capital Contract Management E Commerce Records Management Sec Financial Reporting Software Licensing Advertising Law Acquisition Integration Sec Filings Patent Litigation Governmental Affairs Social Media Board Of Directors Tax E Commer Regulatory Affairs Regulatory Policy Board Governance Audit Committee Expert Witness Banking Regulation Compliance Insurance Payment Systems

Paul Swegle Education Details

  • University Of Washington School Of Law
    University Of Washington School Of Law
    Law
  • University Of Washington
    University Of Washington
    Political Science

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