Associate
Julie Bateman
Julie advises businesses on commercial contracts, intellectual property licenses, technology transactions, and data privacy matters. Julie brings a practical and operations-minded approach from her engineering background and prior work at a venture-backed start-up.
About Julie
Before joining the firm, Julie worked as a technology transactions attorney at two leading law firms, where she represented companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500s. Prior to becoming an attorney, Julie worked as a civil engineer on a solar thermal project and as the director of operations for a medical delivery drone company. Julie graduated from Boston College Law School and majored in civil engineering at the University of Michigan. Julie is a
CIPP/US certified privacy professional.
Practice Focus
Tech Licensing & Commercial Transactions
Drafting and negotiating commercial agreements for technology
companies across SaaS, renewable energy, automated driving, and consumer goods sectors, including strategic collaboration agreements, license agreements, service agreements, and purchase agreements.
Data Privacy & Regulatory Compliance
Advising technology companies on compliance with data privacy regulations, and drafting privacy policies, terms of use, and confidentiality agreements.
Intellectual Property Matters
Drafting and negotiating agreements to protect companies' intellectual property rights across various business relationships, including agreements with employees, consultants, advisors, contractors, and service providers. Developing standardized templates and processes for managing intellectual property rights in employment and service provider relationships while balancing business needs with legal protections.
Representative Engagements
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Drafted and negotiated various technology-focused commercial agreements including strategic collaboration agreements, software licenses, service agreements, purchase agreements, supply agreements, and evaluation agreements.
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Represented venture capital firms in technology company financings ranging from Series Seed to Series F rounds, with investment values from $7.5M to $250M.
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Developed and implemented standard form agreements for technology clients, including terms of use, privacy policies, advisor agreements, consulting agreements, and non-disclosure agreements.
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Assisted with several buy-side and sell-side acquisitions ranging from $50M to $14B, including conducting commercial and IP-related due diligence.