Missoula, Montana, United States
Strategic legal advisor and corporate counsel with experience negotiating and drafting complex technology agreements. Broad experience supporting Sales, Professional Services, Channels and Alliances, and Engineering and Product business units, with a focus upon software licensing (Open Source and Proprietary), Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud Services, SaaS, Intellectual Property, Distribution Agreements, OEM Agreements and Product Development.
Corporate Counsel focusing upon global technology transactions, acquisition integration, strategic partnerships and alliances, data security/privacy, and digital agency and new media work.
Practice focus upon intellectual property matters, including entertainment distribution, production legal and talent transactional law for television, SVOD and OTT. Experience in television business affairs via representation of scripted and non-scripted television studios and production company clients. Point person handling day-to-day production work, negotiating, drafting and reviewing above-the-line and below-the-line talent agreements, all series-related agreements and corresponding with clients and production personnel. Experience drafting licensing agreements, development agreements and production form templates for television/digital clients and networks.
Supported a Partner of the firm in the Entertainment Transactions and New Media and Technologies Group. Point person handling day-to-day production work, drafting and reviewing series-related agreements (e.g., releases, location agreements, vendor agreements, and episodic writer agreements) and corresponding with clients and production personnel. Track agreements and deal status for Partner's institutional clients. Experience drafting development agreements and production form templates for television/digital clients and networks. Special projects as assigned.