Lawyer on the Technology Transactions team, focusing on technology procurement and client-facing technology transactions.

Negotiate global client agreements for market research, product testing, and polling services – including for multinational technology, consumer goods, and pharmaceutical firms. Manage outside counsel on North American litigation matters, and negotiate commercial settlement agreements. Work with North American sales teams to structure agreements and research projects to remain compliant with the GDPR, TCPA, and other regulation. Supervise team paralegal in reviewing agreements and managing department logistics. Corporate secretary for all North American entities. Responsible for contracts for our respondent community. Work to onboard new technology vendors to provide new digital research solutions, including VR, identity verification, and algorithmic search providers. Along with our Data Protection Officer, work with our IT-security team on data breach minimization and online fraud. Responsible for presentations on legal issues to account teams and other stakeholders.

Senior attorney supporting BT’s Global Banking and Financial Networks sales. Lead attorney for procurement matters in the US, responsible for negotiation of all deals with North American telecommunication providers, as well as online advertising, cloud products, and RFID technology. Draft and negotiate sell-side telecommunications, technology, SaaS, and outsourced services agreements. Support BT’s retail and supply chain products, BT’s security product suite, high-resiliency “mesh” networks, and US commercial real estate. Manager of Axiom counsel for procurement matters. Supervise “pass-through” of third-party terms in complex sales deals. Advise BT Americas execs on key business risks, and provide training on contracts and compliance for non-legal employees.

Counsel specializing in telecommunications and technology agreements, mid-size and large enterprise telecommunications sales, managed security agreements, and complex procurement matters. Drafted templates for content delivery, video-conferencing and security products, and outsourcing. Negotiated infrastructure agreements, including software for transatlantic cable landing stations. Legal advisor on mobile application launch project and online contracting/e-commerce procurement project. Assisted in State and Federal channel sales. Consolidated agreements subsequent to the acquisition of Global Crossing. Counseled Level 3 on data security, online contract compliance, and acted as point of contact for Security and Latin American counsel. Developed compliance materials for commercial contracts.

Attorney in the Technology group focusing on work with Bloomberg L.P. Drafted and negotiated agreements to allow third-party products to integrate Bloomberg data. Negotiated agreements to acquire data from exchanges and other third-party providers. Created templates for new services, and advised Bloomberg on potential legal issues for new products. Analyzed new products and features for regulatory and legal clearance in both U.S. and foreign jurisdictions. Responsible for drafting and maintaining an extensive set of customer form agreements for Bloomberg.

Transactional and corporate practice with an emphasis on IP clients and issues. Drafted and participated in negotiating intellectual property agreements including licensing agreements, service agreements for IP related businesses, data security and privacy programs and agreements, and transfers of intellectual property rights; counseled clients on prospective infringement disputes; assisted in the formation of both for-profit and not-for-profit IP-related businesses. Drafted documents in relation to M&A deals for IP-based companies.