• Manage and lead an international team of IP legal professionals comprising of team members located across different regions (Europe, Japan, India, Australia, and the United States).• Primary IP attorney for complex transactions involving acquisitions and divestitures.• Prepare and draft various agreements, including governance documents, security and privacy requirements, operating and service level requirements, collaboration agreements, and IP licensing.• Identify and address critical issues through collaboration with executive directors.• Provide counsel on privacy, cybersecurity, compliance, tax, public policy, advertising, consumer protection, and intellectual property matters.• Develop and implement streamlined intellectual property processes and playbooks.• Ensure alignment with evolving legal and regulatory changes through collaboration with stakeholders.• Support tax and transfer pricing functions related to corporate reorganization, assignment and licensing of intellectual property assets.• Assist HR team in drafting and implementing intellectual compliance policy and procedures.

• Managed and lead an international team with diverse legal and commercial backgrounds.• Advised senior leadership, including C-Suite executives, on complex legal matters and strategies.• Lead IP attorney for complex transactions including multiple acquisitions and divestitures.• Handled intricate legal aspects of mergers and acquisitions, ensuring IP protection and compliance.• Provided training to stakeholders, executives, product managers, and engineers on contract interpretations, laws, regulations, and IP protection.• Drafted a wide range of agreements, including governance documents, data privacy requirement agreements, operating and service agreements, collaboration agreements, licensing agreements.• Collaborated with executive directors and leadership on privacy, cybersecurity, compliance, tax, public policy, advertising, consumer protection, and IP matters.• Facilitated cross-functional collaboration to address and resolve complex legal challenges.• Streamlined agreement drafting processes to align with evolving legal and regulatory changes.• Provided IP support to tax and transfer pricing project teams.

Data Privacy• Draft and negotiate privacy and data security provisions for commercial contracts, including service provider agreements; assist clients with remediation of privacy and data security deficiencies and lacunae in legacy vendor contracts.• Advise clients on immediate, cost-effective and efficient compliance with GDPR obligations including designing, drafting and advising clients on implementing GDPR compliance project plans specific to individual client needs.• Prepare gap analysis and risk assessment of client data privacy policies and procedures to determine client GDPR compliance.• Advise clients on adopting and implementing data processing agreement and/or addendums to address the handling of personal data under GDPR.• Prepare and draft various data processing agreements and addendums on behalf of clients as required under GDPR.• Analyze and revise existing data processing agreements to comply with GDPR requirments.• Negotiate data processing agreements with third parties on behalf of clients to address compliance with GDPR requirements. Merger, Acquisition and Divestiture• Lead intellectual property counsel for various transactions valued between in diverse business sectors including the representation of media, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, life sciences, and medical device Companies. • Handle all aspects of the transaction, from inception to consummation to determine the risks and precautions that must be taken during a deal, and negotiating transactions to best address client needs and goals.• Negotiate and draft merger, acquisition and divestiture agreements.• Manage complex technology transactions on both the vendor side and the customer side, drafting and negotiating multiparty contracts and technology agreements from the RFP through completion.• Acted as interim General Counsel (six months) on behalf of a technology client responsible for all legal issues of the business ranging from general employment to intellectual property.