Lawyer Bio : Jennifer L. Collins

Jennifer leads the firm’s Intellectual Property Transactions team. Jennifer has more than 15 years of experience advising clients in intellectual property and transactional matters. Her principal practice area is technology transactions, including preparing and negotiating complex strategic alliance, development, licensing and distribution agreements relating to life sciences, information technology and other proprietary technology.  Jennifer also advises clients with respect to outsourcing transactions,  preparing and negotiating outsourcing agreements for information technology functions as well as business processes.  In addition to her transactional work, Jennifer practices in the promotions and sweepstakes law area.  For more than 10 years, she has advised clients with respect to all types of promotions, sweepstakes, premium giveaways, rebates, charitable solicitations and other promotions on both a nationwide and local basis.  Jennifer’s transactional clients include international pharmaceutical companies, large agri-bioscience companies, small life sciences companies, software vendors and other information technology service providers, large hospital systems, manufacturers, retailers and advertising firms.  Jennifer’s promotions and sweepstakes clients include large manufacturers and retailers, as well as advertising firms and fulfillment companies.  Following are some examples of the types of matters with which Jennifer has recently assisted clients:

• Preparation and negotiation of multi-million dollar suite of licensing agreements for global deployment of agri-bioscience technology
• Preparation and negotiation of several multi-million dollar information technology outsourcing agreements for end user clients, including a complex agreement for the outsourcing of mortgage processing functions by a major financial institution
• Preparation and negotiation of several key strategic alliance agreements for the creation and commercialization of new technologies in the software, pharmaceutical and wireless industries
• Represented two North Carolina health care systems in the acquisition and implementation of electronic health records systems
• Preparation and negotiation of technology transfer and research agreements between major universities and small life sciences companies
• Preparation and maintenance of form information technology agreements for a number of information technology vendors and end users
• Preparation and negotiation of a large volume of information technology contracts for several national and international companies with large IT departments
• Preparation and negotiation of manufacturing and supply agreements for global manufacturers in the pharmaceutical and aerospace industries
• Legal compliance for gaming software company
• Legal compliance for nationwide promotions for large shoe retailer