Fred Linfesty
Commercial Contracts Counsel, IT
Massachusetts
MA, NY
About
Additional areas of legal experience include real estate, SEC reporting, mergers and acquisitions, subpoena compliance, employment law, immigration law and legal department management.
Results-oriented, efficiency-focused, analytical and creative problem solver.
experience
Work History
R. Frederick Linfesty, Attorney at Law
Technology, Life Sciences and Commercial Contracts Counsel
Mar 2014 - Present
• Draft, review, edit and negotiate complex IT and other sales and procurement agreements, including master agreements, statements of work, amendments, change-orders and RFPs for software licensing, SaaS / hosted / cloud products, hardware, maintenance / support and professional services for corporate clients.
Hewlett-Packard Company
Corporate Counsel
Feb 2012 - Jun 2014
• Primarily responsible for drafting, reviewing, editing and negotiating complex IT sales, reseller and procurement agreements, including master agreements, statements of work, amendments and change orders for software licensing, SaaS / hosted / cloud products, hardware, maintenance/support and professional services.
• Legal work on customer disputes, collections matters, bankruptcy, etc.
Axiom Legal
Commercial Contracts Counsel, IT
May 2011 - Mar 2012
• Draft, review, edit and negotiate complex information technology and other sales and procurement agreements, including master agreements, statements of work, amendments, change-orders, RFPs, RFQs and RFIs for software licensing, SaaS / hosted / cloud products, hardware, maintenance / support and professional services for major corporate clients.
Capital One Financial
Contracts Manager, IT
Jul 2010 - May 2011
• Primarily responsible for drafting, reviewing, editing and negotiating complex IT procurement/vendor agreements, including master agreements, statements of work, amendments, change orders and RFPs for software licensing, SaaS / hosted / cloud products, hardware, maintenance/support and professional services.
• Drafted, reviewed and negotiated banking operations and collections agreements.
Iron Mountain Information Management, Inc.
Corporate Counsel - Manager, Litigation & Bankruptcy
Mar 2005 - Feb 2010
• Primary management responsibility for all litigation and bankruptcy matters globally.
• Drafted, reviewed and negotiated service and procurement/vendor agreements; direct end-user software licensing and SaaS / hosted / cloud agreements; software source code escrow, PC-backup and digital information storage agreements; HIPAA business associate agreements; asset purchase, etc.
Law Firms
Litigation & Bankruptcy Associate
Aug 1998 - Mar 2005
• Represented debtors, debtors-in-possession, creditors and creditors’ committees in Ch. 7, 11 and 13 cases; represented litigants on both plaintiff and defendant sides.
• Drafted and performed legal research for pleadings and memoranda of law.
• Performed document review for litigation discovery.
• Negotiated settlements of claims and drafted settlement agreements.