William Reilly Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I joined Yelp when it had just 1 lawyer, 150 employees and $25 million in revenue. Since then, I have been instrumental in helping grow Yelp's legal team to 12 talented lawyers, while the company itself expanded to over 5,000 employees and more than $1.3 billion in revenue.Since 2009, I have been on the front lines handling nearly every major non-litigation legal matter for Yelp, including:- Advising Yelp's Business Development team on all enterprise partnerships and revenue deals, conducting product reviews and assessing privacy and IP-related risks.- Managing all legal issues pertaining to Yelp's global Sales organization with over 3,000 employees across 7 international offices and $1.3 billion in revenue.- Providing legal oversight and serving as de facto General Counsel for newly acquired businesses such as Eat24 (US), Yelp Reservations (US), Yelp Waitlist (US) and Yelp Ireland (IE). - Overseeing legal review and negotiations for all inbound and outbound agreements across all Yelp departments.- Advising Yelp's product and engineering teams on complex licensing deals to enable AI training using Yelp content. - Working closely with product, engineering and business teams to ensure legal compliance and mitigate risks related to GDPR, CCPA, TCPA, ADA, CAN-SPAM, HIPAA, COPPA, PIPEDA, CFAA, PCI DSS, CDA 230, and other key regulations.- Managing Yelp's international entities across 30 countries - including entity formation, operations, global privacy compliance, HR issues, tax advice, business development and immigration support.- Involvement in Yelp's high-profile NYSE IPO and S-1 drafting with Goldman Sachs.- Core participation in the acquisition of 5 strategic companies in Europe and US.- Providing sole in-house legal support for all of Yelp's office properties and related lease negotiations, insurance and development contracts.- I was also honored to be named a member of Yelp's "Employee Elite Squad" recognizing the top 5% of contributors at Yelp.

Heber California LLC is a real estate holding company that invests in and manages multi-unit residential properties, with current and former properties in Pacific Heights, Lower Pacific Heights and British Columbia.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Cyberlaw (2004) and Technology Contract Drafting (2009 - 2012) - currently on pause

Responsible for all legal affairs in a clean tech start-up that used patented technology to fabricate extruded plastic lumber from various sources of plastic material, including plastic headed for landfills. Biolumber won the Women 2.0 Start-up Competition for Clean Tech.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for all Transactional and Product legal issues in Microsoft business unit.

Us

Responsible for all Transactional, Product, Privacy, Network Security and Corporate Affairs legal issues.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Drafted motions, and prepared white paper for major insurance company on cybersecurity risks and mitigation. Worked under the guidance of Duane Morris' top internet law counsel in the US, Eric Sinrod.

Developed cutting edge websites, known as E-butik, just as the internet revolution was taking off in Europe in 1995. Created websites for Indigo Butik, Hennessy Funds, HAY4U, Yul Anderson Entertainment, Think Inc.. Danish Ecommerce Journal, Channel Communications, NBE Entertainment, etc.. Honored as a “Dot Com Pioneer” by a leading Danish newspaper. Advised companies on network security threats. Obtained a SANS GIAC security certification and spoke twice at Def Con Hacking Conference in Las Vegas on hacking and the law. Opened up Denmark’s first e-commerce retail store in 1996 called “Netgear” that sold books on Internet programming and web site creation, and sold website software and development tools. 1st Danish functional retail store on the internet (1995)1st Danish online store with CGI shopping cart technology (1996)1st Danish retail store to securely accept credit cards (1996)1st Danish site with surround video technology (1996)1st Danish online store to employ Flash technology (1996)1st Danish remote shopping cart server (1996)

Created two large +$1 million revenue retail stores with called “Indigo” in the downtown shopping streets of Copenhagen (Skindergade 19) and Stockholm (Drottninggatan 88) that had Scandinavia’s largest assortment of high quality used Levi 501s and California streetwear / skateboard brands. The Copenhagen store also served as the European distributor to other retail stores in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. Geometrics also had a late night grilled hotdog (Grillad Indigo) stand in downtown bar scene of Stockholm (Stureplan) that operated as a side business. I sold the stores in 1996 to a local hospitality company.

Started a multi-million-dollar retail, export, import, and manufacturing company from scratch that began by sitting in a pickup truck in desert lot in Phoenix after placing an ad in the Sunday Phoenix Republic to buy used Levi 501s. The “Blue Jean Buyer” grew exponentially to 7 retail stores in the United States buying Levi’s and selling street wear clothing in Arizona, California, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. Within 2 years, the Blue Jean Buyer was selling 10,000 pairs of Levi’s per month (bought on average for $4.00) for $20.00 wholesale and $60 retail. The 501's were exported to Thailand, Japan and Europe. BJB employed 40 employees across all stores and sorting locations in the US. I sold the chain of stores, some of which are still in operation 30 years later.

I was the hotel financial analysis partner with a Latvian American consulting company (Cook Associates) to develop the Hotel Daugava in Riga, Latvia, USSR. The concept was to enter into a joint venture with the City of Riga, with Ramada as the operator, to develop the hotel using Polish contractors paid in Soviet Rubles and price the hotel in US dollars and German marks. I was involved in all aspects of the development, from spreadsheet analysis, raising US investor funds, working with architects and contractors, obtaining permits, negotiating operation management and partnership collaboration with the City of Riga and the Soviet authorities in Moscow. We were required to resubmit the completed project for approval again as the Soviet Union dissolved and the government in Latvia changed. A competitor from Finland obtained the right to develop the project and I was hired by the new Riga Mayor Andris Teikmanis as a financial consultant to represent Riga in its negotiations with the Finnish company. Today, it is a Radisson hotel.

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

I was a financial analyst member on a team of 3 (with Bill Birdsall and Paul Kuster) who developed $200 million in corporate-owned Ramada Renaissance properties in Los Angeles (LAX), Long Beach (Queen Mary), New York (Times Square) and Washington DC (Techworld). - Developed complex and detailed P&L spreadsheets to determine the optimum number of rooms, restaurant/bar seats, conference rooms, and lobby space. - Created +2,000 line Lotus 1-2-3 dynamic and comprehensive spread sheets that converted Joint Venture agreements into P&L estimates for sensitivity analysis to determine the best allocation of partner preferred returns and optimized financial ratios (NPV and IRR).- Pioneered and developed multiple regression statistic models to more accurately assess a hotel market to help forecast new Ramada Renaissance occupancy rates and detailed ADRs in context of the current and anticipated competitive hotel properties. - Worked with Solomon Brothers investment bank to bundle Ramada hotel properties into syndication investments sold to investors looking to diversify into commercial hotel investments. - Collaborated with L&H and PKF appraisal consultants to obtain independent confirmation of the final Ramada development financial return estimates for new proposed hotels to obtain financing and internal approval for corporate-owned Renaissance hotels.

Doctor Of Law - Jd, Cyberlaw, Contracts, Intellectual Property, Corporate Law

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Journalism And History