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Kirkland, Wa, Us

New York, New York, Us

Berkeley, California, Us

(Nasdaq: RGTI) Public company General Counsel advising Board, executive management and all company stakeholders on all global legal, regulatory and compliance issues, including corporate governance and SEC reporting, commercial and government sales contracts, corporate financing, M&A, intellectual property strategy and protection, shareholder communications, litigation, employment law, acting as 401(k) trustee, export controls, insurance and risk management policies, domestic and international real estate leases, managing legal issues for entities in Canada, UK, Germany and Australia, and legal and compliance budgeting and cost management for all legal functions.• Directed and managed all aspects of SPAC merger IPO transaction raising $262M, including $148M PIPE investment.• Directed and managed all legal issues in successfully closing Series C equity raise of $79M.

Redmond, Wa, Us

Everett, Wa, Us

Advised on legal issues concerning global intellectual property strategy and protection; litigation; complex licensing agreements; employment issues; M&A; international manufacturing and distribution relationships; privacy and data protection; real estate leases; public company governance and SEC reporting.

(Nasdaq: NAME) Rightside (rightside.co) was a public company and leading provider of domain name services and only end-to-end domain name services provider operating at scale at every stage of the domain name lifecycle. Spun-off from Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD) August 1, 2014. Merged with Donuts Inc., July 2017. • Public company General Counsel and trusted executive team member and advisor to CEO, CFO and Board of Directors on issues affecting business goals and strategy.• Managed and proactively advised on all global legal, compliance and regulatory issues, including corporate governance and SEC reporting, shareholder communications, litigation, employment law, M&A, insurance and risk management policies, and domestic and international real estate leases.• Led legal teams and managed all legal issues in connection with (i) merger agreement with Donuts Inc. to acquire Rightside for approximately $213 million in cash, closed in Q3 2017; (ii) successful divestiture of domain name registrar business, eNom, Inc., for $83.5 million, closed in January 2017; and (iii) successful public company spin-off from Demand Media, Inc., closed in August 2014.

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Formerly Demand Media (NYSE: DMD). Division general counsel, member of executive management team for Rightside and senior member of legal team for Demand Media, Inc. Responsible for management of all legal issues related to Rightside, including strategic licensing deals, corporate governance and compliance, litigation, employment and M&A.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Managed, coordinated and performed review of legal issues and negotiation of agreements across multiple global teams for Nokia’s Media team in newly launched online Services group, including issues concerning online photo sharing site, Ovi Share, and assistance with all issues concerning the launch of Nokia’s mobile phone application store, Ovi Store, launched in May 2009. Managed all legal issues for Strategic Partnerships team.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Yahoo Media Group (2004-2008)• Responsible for all legal issues, including drafting and negotiating content licenses, reviewing and approving products, assessing risk in pre-litigation and contract disputes and managing outside counsel for the following Yahoo media properties: Finance, News, Sports, Lifestyles, Games, Tech, Education, Yahooligans/Kids. Yahoo Procurement/Customer Care (2003-2004)• Sole attorney responsible for all procurement/customer care agreements and legal issues company wide. Yahoo Broadcast Services (1999-2003)• Sole attorney responsible for Yahoo’s streaming media business services.

Negotiated, drafted and counseled internal sales clients on all aspects of content license, hosting, streaming media services agreements, network peering agreements, software licenses and other general legal issues. Drafted and maintained privacy and data policies. Responsible for pre-litigation negotiations and management of outside counsel. broadcast.com was acquired by Yahoo! in August 1999.

Broad-based Internet, entertainment, intellectual property, media and marketing practice.

Commercial litigation and intellectual property practice.

Doctor Of Law (J.D.)

Bba, Accounting