Francis Law, LLC – Geneva, Switzerland October 2020 – Present
Solo practice
- Prepared contract forms for U.S. based IT manufacturer’s employees, vendors, suppliers, and customers. Negotiated manufacturing and development contracts with client’s customers.
Holland & Knight, LLP - Atlanta, Georgia October 2018 – October 2020
Part-time Associate, Outsourcing and Technology Team
- Recruited by senior partner from Kilpatrick Townsend to Holland & Knight following an extended maternity leave. Responsibilities remained the same as at Kilpatrick Townsend.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP - Atlanta, Georgia April 2014 – July 2017
Associate, Global Sourcing and Technology Team
- IT Transactions: Counsel clients on a broad range of IT transactions in multiple industries, including telecommunications, retail, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, health information technology, and financial services.
- Transactions include: (i) strategic outsourcing arrangements, such as IT infrastructure support, business processing outsourcing, facilities management, application development, customer relationship management, call center operations, back office and IT helpdesk support; and (ii) general commercial agreements, such as software licenses, software as a service agreements, master services agreements, procurement agreements, and advertising, social and digital media agreements.
- Responsibilities include: (i) drafting, negotiating, and finalizing IT agreements and various ancillary documents, such as statements of work, order documents, services descriptions, implementation plans, service level agreements, governance procedures, and intellectual property licenses; (ii) managing transactions schedules and deliverables, business subject matter experts, and client relationships; and (iii) advising clients regarding various corporate and transactional matters including legal risks and solutions, privacy and data security issues, and intellectual property issues.
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP - Atlanta, Georgia 2011 – April 2014
Corporate Associate
- Mergers and Acquisitions: manage document tracking and closings; due diligence, deal structuring; negotiations; and drafting.
- General Corporate: draft and manage form contracts for clients in the healthcare, software, technology, financial institutions, and manufacturing fields; draft licensing agreements, purchase agreements, nondisclosure and restrictive covenants agreements, employee equity documents; and formation of entities.
