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Saraann Parker
Partner
1222 Demonbreun Street
Suite 1700
Nashville, TN 37203
Suite 1700
Nashville, TN 37203
saraann.parker@nelsonmullins.com
Saraann has more than 25 years of experience in corporate and intellectual property law and focuses her practice on technology transactions, licensing, and privacy related matters. She has deep knowledge of intellectual property agreements, merchandise licensing, promotional and sponsorship agreements, and publishing agreements. A keen negotiator, she has extensive experience handling technology transactions including complex...
Saraann has more than 25 years of experience in corporate and intellectual property law and focuses her practice on technology transactions, licensing, and privacy related matters. She has deep knowledge of intellectual property agreements, merchandise licensing, promotional and sponsorship agreements, and publishing agreements. A keen negotiator, she has extensive experience handling technology transactions including complex technology and IP licenses, asset purchase agreements, and outsourcing agreements.
Saraann represents a wide variety of clients including technology developers and Fortune 100 and 500 companies. She works with clients to assess their currently owned and licensed IP, software, hardware and operating systems, and collaborates with clients to identify the types of IP, software, hardware, services, and operating systems needed to meet long-term and short-term business goals and growth strategies.
technology and IP licenses, asset purchase agreements, and outsourcing agreements.
Saraann represents a wide variety of clients including technology developers and Fortune 100 and 500 companies. She works with clients to assess their currently owned and licensed IP, software, hardware and operating systems, and collaborates with clients to identify the types of IP, software, hardware, services, and operating systems needed to meet long-term and short-term business goals and growth strategies.
Experience
The following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.
Previous Professional Experience
- Partner, Top 200 law firm (2013–2024)
- Partner, Top 100 law firm (2005–2013)
- Associate, Top 100 law firm (2001-2005)
Representative Matters
Banking and Finance Industry Technology Transactions
- Development of B2B and B2C platform for bank client; AI and MR used to generate business leads, service customers, commercialize private label product to banks, lenders, and credit agencies
- Master Services Agreement for multiple software and cloud apps for loan processing, origination and mortgage financing
- SaaS Agreement for insurance policy underwriter client – cloud based full service (underwriting, premiums, product management, office in the cloud...)
- Real-time market data analytics, workflows, Machine Learning, AI
- Development of private label products, B2B and B2C portals
- Merchant Processing Agreements, payment gateway software (B2B and B2C)
Technology and IP Transactions
- Prepares and negotiates complex software licenses, technology development agreements, cloud agreements (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), website development and hosting agreements, and online terms and privacy polices customized to client needs.
- Simplifies the legal and business aspects of technology transactions, and develops comprehensive agreements in plain-English terms which allow clear yet comprehensive protections and obligations.
- Assists licensee/purchaser clients with assessing their long-term and short-term technology and IP business needs, and identifies the risks, costs and benefits of licensing and/or purchasing technology and other intellectual property.
- Negotiates terms enabling licensee clients to obtain the license, production, sale and exploitation rights, expanded divestiture rights, warranties and indemnities, robust confidentiality, privacy and security policies, and customized downtime remedies for business-critical online software.
- Protects the developer/licensor’s rights with detailed license restrictions, reversions, termination rights, ownership clauses, continuous rights to license, sublicense and use, and non-compete terms.
- Negotiates favorable terms of sale, payment, royalties, advances, minimum commitments, reporting and audit rights, limited warranties, liability caps and narrowly tailored indemnification obligations.
Corporate Transactions
- Partners with corporate M&A attorneys to prepare and negotiate the technology terms and conditions in technology asset sales and purchases, and mergers and acquisitions involving technology companies.
Software Audits
- Represents worldwide corporations in responding to audit requests; prepares protective agreements, including customized audit scope agreements and tri-party nondisclosure agreements; assists CIO and IT teams with preparing audit reports and limiting audit requirements; and negotiates settlement agreements between vendors and licensees.
Intellectual Property Transactions
- Negotiates intellectual property licenses enabling manufacturers of uniforms and baby products to use and exploit third-party intellectual property in the development, manufacture and sale of their products.
- Negotiates co-branding and private label agreements for an international financial services corporation.
Sports and Entertainment Law
- Represents licensees and licensors of proprietary intellectual property for use in the manufacture of various products.
- Represents international brands in the consumer products and entertainment industries, as well as not-for-profits, in negotiating promotional and sponsorship agreements for co-branded products at large-scale venues and events around the world.
- Represents authors and publishers in the negotiation of publishing and license agreements.
Education
-
Saint Louis University School of Law,
JD,
cum laude
(1996)
- Melvin Friedman Real Estate Fellowship
- Staff Editor, Trans-Atlantic Law Journal
- Boston University, BS, magna cum laude
Admissions
- Missouri
- California
Practice Areas
The following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.
Previous Professional Experience
- Partner, Top 200 law firm (2013–2024)
- Partner, Top 100 law firm (2005–2013)
- Associate, Top 100 law firm (2001-2005)
Representative Matters
Banking and Finance Industry Technology Transactions
- Development of B2B and B2C platform for bank client; AI and MR used to generate business leads, service customers, commercialize private label product to banks, lenders, and credit agencies
- Master Services Agreement for multiple software and cloud apps for loan processing, origination and mortgage financing
- SaaS Agreement for insurance policy underwriter client – cloud based full service (underwriting, premiums, product management, office in the cloud...)
- Real-time market data analytics, workflows, Machine Learning, AI
- Development of private label products, B2B and B2C portals
- Merchant Processing Agreements, payment gateway software (B2B and B2C)
Technology and IP Transactions
- Prepares and negotiates complex software licenses, technology development agreements, cloud agreements (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), website development and hosting agreements, and online terms and privacy polices customized to client needs.
- Simplifies the legal and business aspects of technology transactions, and develops comprehensive agreements in plain-English terms which allow clear yet comprehensive protections and obligations.
- Assists licensee/purchaser clients with assessing their long-term and short-term technology and IP business needs, and identifies the risks, costs and benefits of licensing and/or purchasing technology and other intellectual property.
- Negotiates terms enabling licensee clients to obtain the license, production, sale and exploitation rights, expanded divestiture rights, warranties and indemnities, robust confidentiality, privacy and security policies, and customized downtime remedies for business-critical online software.
- Protects the developer/licensor’s rights with detailed license restrictions, reversions, termination rights, ownership clauses, continuous rights to license, sublicense and use, and non-compete terms.
- Negotiates favorable terms of sale, payment, royalties, advances, minimum commitments, reporting and audit rights, limited warranties, liability caps and narrowly tailored indemnification obligations.
Corporate Transactions
- Partners with corporate M&A attorneys to prepare and negotiate the technology terms and conditions in technology asset sales and purchases, and mergers and acquisitions involving technology companies.
Software Audits
- Represents worldwide corporations in responding to audit requests; prepares protective agreements, including customized audit scope agreements and tri-party nondisclosure agreements; assists CIO and IT teams with preparing audit reports and limiting audit requirements; and negotiates settlement agreements between vendors and licensees.
Intellectual Property Transactions
- Negotiates intellectual property licenses enabling manufacturers of uniforms and baby products to use and exploit third-party intellectual property in the development, manufacture and sale of their products.
- Negotiates co-branding and private label agreements for an international financial services corporation.
Sports and Entertainment Law
- Represents licensees and licensors of proprietary intellectual property for use in the manufacture of various products.
- Represents international brands in the consumer products and entertainment industries, as well as not-for-profits, in negotiating promotional and sponsorship agreements for co-branded products at large-scale venues and events around the world.
- Represents authors and publishers in the negotiation of publishing and license agreements.
Media
Recognitions
The bar rules of some states require that the standards for an attorney's inclusion in certain public accolades or recognitions be provided. When such accolades or recognitions are listed, a hyperlink is provided that leads to a description of the respective selection methodology.
- The Best Lawyers in America®, Technology Law (2019-2024)
- Missouri Lawyers Weekly Women’s Justice Awards, Innovation and Technology Award (2022)
- Who’s Who in Technology, St. Louis Business Journal (2007)
Professional Activities
- The Missouri Bar
- American Bar Association
- California Bar Association
- Tennessee Bar Association
- Licensing Executives Society
Saraann has more than 25 years of experience in corporate and intellectual property law and focuses her practice on technology transactions, licensing, and privacy related matters. She has deep knowledge of intellectual property agreements, merchandise licensing, promotional and sponsorship agreements, and publishing agreements. A keen negotiator, she has extensive experience handling technology transactions including complex... technology and IP licenses, asset purchase agreements, and outsourcing agreements.
Saraann represents a wide variety of clients including technology developers and Fortune 100 and 500 companies. She works with clients to assess their currently owned and licensed IP, software, hardware and operating systems, and collaborates with clients to identify the types of IP, software, hardware, services, and operating systems needed to meet long-term and short-term business goals and growth strategies.
Experience
The following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.Previous Professional Experience
- Partner, Top 200 law firm (2013–2024)
- Partner, Top 100 law firm (2005–2013)
- Associate, Top 100 law firm (2001-2005)
Representative Matters
Banking and Finance Industry Technology Transactions
- Development of B2B and B2C platform for bank client; AI and MR used to generate business leads, service customers, commercialize private label product to banks, lenders, and credit agencies
- Master Services Agreement for multiple software and cloud apps for loan processing, origination and mortgage financing
- SaaS Agreement for insurance policy underwriter client – cloud based full service (underwriting, premiums, product management, office in the cloud...)
- Real-time market data analytics, workflows, Machine Learning, AI
- Development of private label products, B2B and B2C portals
- Merchant Processing Agreements, payment gateway software (B2B and B2C)
Technology and IP Transactions
- Prepares and negotiates complex software licenses, technology development agreements, cloud agreements (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), website development and hosting agreements, and online terms and privacy polices customized to client needs.
- Simplifies the legal and business aspects of technology transactions, and develops comprehensive agreements in plain-English terms which allow clear yet comprehensive protections and obligations.
- Assists licensee/purchaser clients with assessing their long-term and short-term technology and IP business needs, and identifies the risks, costs and benefits of licensing and/or purchasing technology and other intellectual property.
- Negotiates terms enabling licensee clients to obtain the license, production, sale and exploitation rights, expanded divestiture rights, warranties and indemnities, robust confidentiality, privacy and security policies, and customized downtime remedies for business-critical online software.
- Protects the developer/licensor’s rights with detailed license restrictions, reversions, termination rights, ownership clauses, continuous rights to license, sublicense and use, and non-compete terms.
- Negotiates favorable terms of sale, payment, royalties, advances, minimum commitments, reporting and audit rights, limited warranties, liability caps and narrowly tailored indemnification obligations.
Corporate Transactions
- Partners with corporate M&A attorneys to prepare and negotiate the technology terms and conditions in technology asset sales and purchases, and mergers and acquisitions involving technology companies.
Software Audits
- Represents worldwide corporations in responding to audit requests; prepares protective agreements, including customized audit scope agreements and tri-party nondisclosure agreements; assists CIO and IT teams with preparing audit reports and limiting audit requirements; and negotiates settlement agreements between vendors and licensees.
Intellectual Property Transactions
- Negotiates intellectual property licenses enabling manufacturers of uniforms and baby products to use and exploit third-party intellectual property in the development, manufacture and sale of their products.
- Negotiates co-branding and private label agreements for an international financial services corporation.
Sports and Entertainment Law
- Represents licensees and licensors of proprietary intellectual property for use in the manufacture of various products.
- Represents international brands in the consumer products and entertainment industries, as well as not-for-profits, in negotiating promotional and sponsorship agreements for co-branded products at large-scale venues and events around the world.
- Represents authors and publishers in the negotiation of publishing and license agreements.
Education
-
Saint Louis University School of Law,
JD,
cum laude
(1996)
- Melvin Friedman Real Estate Fellowship
- Staff Editor, Trans-Atlantic Law Journal
- Boston University, BS, magna cum laude
Admissions
- Missouri
- California
Practice Areas
- Cybersecurity & Data Privacy
- FinTech
- Health IT
- Cloud Computing, Licensing, & Transactions
- Outsourcing & Managed Services
Industries
The bar rules of some states require that the standards for an attorney's inclusion in certain public accolades or recognitions be provided. When such accolades or recognitions are listed, a hyperlink is provided that leads to a description of the respective selection methodology.
- The Best Lawyers in America®, Technology Law (2019-2024)
- Missouri Lawyers Weekly Women’s Justice Awards, Innovation and Technology Award (2022)
- Who’s Who in Technology, St. Louis Business Journal (2007)
- The Missouri Bar
- American Bar Association
- California Bar Association
- Tennessee Bar Association
- Licensing Executives Society
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