Sam Sawan Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Waterloo, On, Ca

Boston, Ma, Us

• Negotiate, draft, and finalize a large variety of Spartan’s domestic real estate contracts, international and regional sponsorship agreements, master services agreements, employment contracts, and intellectual property licensing contracts. Increasingly active role in product development, product partnerships, and specific IP licensing for co-branded product offerings. • Selected to lead negotiations with U.S. Department of the Army and former Under Secretary of the Army Patrick J. Murphy for U.S. Army Media Purchase.• Identify and enforce Spartan’s Trademark and other intellectual property rights against third party infringers, including initiating and prosecuting routine enforcement actions and advising General Counsel on feasibility and success of certain non-routine enforcement actions. Provide legal advice to all internal Spartan divisions regarding protection and utilization of Spartan intellectual property. • Responsible for drafting and finalizing offer letters, termination letters, employment agreements, contractor service agreements and various employment and business related settlement agreements.• Negotiate and finalize all procurement related contracts including those fulfillment agreements and apparel agreements for delivery of over 10 million t-shirts per year. • Assisted outside counsel and financial advisers in drafting disclosure schedules, shareholder warranties and representations, shareholders’ rights agreement, and stock purchase agreement for recent series b funding.• Experience on both the buy and sell side negotiating SAAS agreements for a variety of platforms specifically around e-commerce and business enterprise software.• Negotiate and draft intellectual property agreements, including intellectual property purchase agreements, commercial software license agreements, trademark and product license agreements, and media production and license agreements.

THERACAINE, LLC June 2019 - PresentOutside Counsel• Advise Theracaine board and c-suite on various pharmaceutical patent licensing issues and using patents as debt collateral. • Draft various NDAs and profit share agreements related to securing series C financing.• Assist drafting and submitting various FDA documents related to Discovery and Development and Pre-Clinical Research including review and submission of animal based clinical trials.• Draft various revue share agreements and equity grants to Theracaine personnel

• Advise, monitor, and update Spartan departments on various regulatory matters related to FDA labeling and certification requirements, FTC influencer disclosure requirements, and consumer data protection and collection issues including GDPR implementation and compliance for Spartan’s EU operations. • Assist in management of Spartan’s trademark portfolio on a worldwide basis with emphasis on the People’s Republic of China, the EU, and the United States. Management of the Spartan trademark portfolio includes initiating infringement actions with outside counsel against third parties, and directing the filing of all Spartan marks.• Draft various consents, resolutions, and other documents presented to Spartan’s Board of Directors. • Responsible for drafting and finalizing offer letters, employment agreements, employment termination agreements, and contractor agreements. • Negotiate and draft key business development initiatives with major Spartan partners including Rakuten, Inc., Craft North America, LLC, and Lifetime Fitness, Inc. • Lead creation and structure of Spartan’s non-apparel branded product licensing program for both consumer and business products in conjunction with Spartan’s Product and Sponsorship divisions. • Assisted outside counsel and financial advisors in conducting due diligence, drafting disclosure schedules, shareholder warranties and representations, shareholders’ rights agreement, and stock purchase agreement for Spartan series b funding and for various Spartan corporate acquisitions.

• Worked on various commercial matters including drafting procurement and services contracts as well as cease and desist letters.• Drafted intellectual property and other licensing agreements for Spartan Race.• Managed a team of 13 contract attorneys conducting review of documents for production to opposing counsel. In addition, worked closely with outside counsel and associate general counsel on various discovery related matters including privilege exceptions and protocol for compliance with discovery requests.

Boston, Ma, Us

Coordinated review protocols with Ropes & Gray attorneys for document review project. Directly managed 11 other contract attorneys during the project providing daily feedback to both team members and Ropes attorney's managing the case. Acted as first level review and project coordinator between document review team of 12 attorneys and Ropes associates. Determined responsiveness and privilege withholding exceptions for production with senior Ropes associates.

Boston, Ma, Us

Reviewed documents for responsiveness to production requests. Discussed and applied privilege exceptions to documents scheduled for production to opposing counsel. Advised team members on various issues involving patent law and patents at issue, including whether certain patents and their related documents qualified for production. Reviewed client contracts to determine compliance with opposing counsel’s discovery requests.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Reviewed documents for relevance and privilege for production to opposing counsel. Redacted documents in compliance with protective court orders.

Westford, Massachusetts, Us

Drafted memos on adversarial administrative proceedings before the USPTO.Researched public disclosure agreements for senior attorneys. Drafted amendments to patent claims rejected by USPTO examiners.Compiled valuation analyses on various patent portfolios.

New York, Ny, Us

Co-wrote legal briefs for a group of ad hoc equity holders in the Washington Mutual Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. These briefs dealt with contesting settlement agreements, Mandamus Petitions, and contesting plan confirmation.Researched and drafted motions for the Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund Bankruptcy as debtor’s counsel. This work included motions to adjust state constitutionally guaranteed pension benefits, motions asserting the debtor’s eligibility to file for Chapter 11 reorganization as a “person”, and typical first day motions. Advised clients on payments to retirees and pension funds while bankruptcy proceedings were ongoing. Drafted legal memorandum for the Foreign Representative in the Fairfield Chapter 15 Bankruptcy. Explored and briefed various issues involving comity between United States Courts and other foreign jurisdictions where preference payments were alleged, responded to objections to discovery requests, and compelled discovery through mandatory discovery disclosures.Researched various foreign financial regulations involving the sale of distressed debt in foreign countries as well as transfer issues of assets to foreign markets proceeding insolvency actions. Completed numerous analyses on the capital and management structure of distressed companies.

New York, Ny, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Managed and conducted financial research projects for corporate clients including MassMutual, Allstate Financial, Citigroup, The Hartford, Transamerica and BlackRock.Presented educational seminars to clients and clients' pensioners on the rights of retirees. Advised clients about regulations implemented through FINRA and the Pension Protection Act. Worked with clients to better understand and align their business practices with various compliance issues.

J.D., Law

B.A., Chemistry And Economics

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