Arthur Owens
Attorney at Law
New York
NY, NJ
About
I provide legal guidance and representation to small, medium and large organizations involved in the development, procurement, and licensing of intellectual property assets including technology, data, and content. I have been in-house as Director and Counsel of Enterprise Platforms at American Express, Senior Commercial Counsel at the Environmental Defense Fund, and General Counsel at two start-ups.
I represent both customers and suppliers of technology products and services. I assist SaaS providers in developing products and legal agreement… read more templates that maximize potential revenue streams and mitigate risk. I provide insights into enterprise decisioning processes that correspond with specific types of asks in a negotiation, so you can anticipate partner's needs and response timelines.
I also represent commercial video, podcast, and music producers licensing & distributing content.
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Client Reviews
"Arthur provides us with critical external legal support, including technology procurement, data licenses, sponsorships, trademark licenses, consultant agreements, and partnerships with external organizations. We love how quickly Arthur responds to support requests, and how he takes ownership of these matters."
"Arthur drafted our customer facing and procurement templates, and negotiates all of our agreements with partners that provide the bundled SaaS components of our services offering. His response time is excellent, his tech knowledge, and his familiarity with large enterprises (our customers) set him apart from other lawyers we have worked with."
Work History
Law Office of Arthur J. Owens
Senior Counsel
Sep 2025 - Present
End-to-end legal support to businesses that create technology as well as to the business and nonprofit teams engaging with technology products and services. Contract template creation, playbook development and transactional support to SaaS providers, enterprise customers, software resellers, nonprofits and consultants in complex commercial transactions.
American Express
Director and Counsel
Jun 2024 - Sep 2025
As Director and Counsel for Enterprise Platforms, I drafted and negotiated SaaS MSAs, SOWs, SLAs, DPAs and subscription agreements. I also drafted and negotiated the agreements that enabled: (1) privacy-compliant predictive analytics data modeling for marketing teams; (2) automated process for advertising content deliveries to American Express Offers channel; and (3) white label apps.
Nike
Secondee Counsel
Jan 2021 - Feb 2024
Drafted international Trademark Licensing, Manufacturing, and Distribution template agreement and negotiating playbook for Converse subsidiary.
Drafted NDA templates and created negotiating playbook enabling outsourced contract specialist teams to negotiate NDAs within Nike approved parameters.
FactSet
Secondee Counsel
Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
Designed contractual architecture and drafted customer-facing contract templates for all products.
Led a team of internal attorneys to draft playbooks for new templates for legal and non-legal negotiating teams.
Supported sales teams in SaaS and data license negotiations.