Neil Patel

Associate General Counsel

Greater Boston

About

Experience

  • Associate General Counsel at AcuityMD
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

  • Confluent (Full-time · 5 yrs 8 mos)
    • Senior Lead Counsel
      Mar 2024 - Jan 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos

    • Senior Legal Counsel
      Jun 2020 - Mar 2024 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • Vice President - Legal at BlackRock
    Jun 2019 - Mar 2020 · 10 mos

    eFront was acquired by BlackRock in May 2019.

  • Legal Director - North America and APAC at eFront
    Feb 2018 - Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    • Act as primary point of contact for the relative region for all matters legal. • Lead a business focused legal function, contributing to the strategy of the business and driving performance. • Draft, negotiate and review contracts while building key relationships the sales team and executive management. • Advise the business on other matters such as international subsidiaries, employment, privacy, copyright, real estate, and strategic transactions. • Manage, advising on and negotiating complex legal and business transactions including, but not limited to, software/SaaS agreements, hosting/cloud agreements, employment agreements, data privacy agreements, SOWs and distributor agreements. • Advise on employment law matters to ensure statutory and regulatory compliance. • Continuously improve standard form agreements, legal processes, and contract management system. • Manage outside counsel and legal consultants. • Manage and maintain company trademarks and handle other trademark issues.

  • Corporate Counsel at Arbor Networks, the security division of NETSCOUT
    Mar 2014 - Jan 2018 · 3 yrs 11 mos

    • Draft, negotiate, and manage domestic and international standard and non-standard agreements such as software license agreements, cloud service agreements, OEM agreements, vendor agreements, confidentiality/non-disclosure agreements, distributor, reseller and channel sales agreements, consulting agreements, hotel and catering contracts, beta software licenses, compliance documents and all other in-house legal documents/agreements. • Coordinate with other relevant internal business functions, such as sales, purchasing, accounting, quality assurance, business development, human resources, revenue recognition and marketing. • Assist General Counsel by providing input on agreement-related and general company legal processes to clarify procedures and minimize delays in agreement process. • Administer and train business functions on relevant policies regarding anti-corruption program requirements related to channel sales, export laws and other various regulations. • Manage outside counsel and legal consultants.