Joel Plainfield

Joel Plainfield
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Joel's practice often places him in the role of "outside general counsel" to clients, working closely with and advising company executives, boards, and members to successfully close transactional matters and manage corporate governance matters. Joel's experience includes negotiating, drafting and advising clients on a variety of transactional matters, including stock and asset purchases, commercial real estate sales and acquisitions, debt financing and loan agreements, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements and corporate governance. He also has particular experience with contracts involving the use of technology in businesses, such as SaaS agreements, service and software license agreements, indefeasible rights of use agreements, data and personal information processing agreements, SLAs, as well as related ancillaries and schedules. 

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Joel also advises clients with respect to information privacy and data security compliance and practices, service availability and failures, and IP ownership.

In addition to his transactional work, Joel provides executives with advice on compliance with the IRC and Securities Acts (1933 & 1934), including regulatory matters implicated by financing and M&A initiatives.

During his work with a prior firm, Joel worked in the Office of General Counsel for a leading testing, inspection and certification company through a secondment. His work there included negotiating and preparing service, license and sales agreement, as well as providing advice to executives and team leaders on environmental, intellectual property, privacy, securities, and employment issues and associated regulatory and legal matters. He also advised regional offices on regulatory compliance, contract, payment, and indemnity disputes, as well as represented the company in multiple M&A transactions. Joel also has significant experience in complex business and commercial litigation, successfully handling matters from inception to judgment in both state and federal trial and appellate courts. Joel's experience litigating matters for a number of clients has provided him with perspective on the importance of structuring commercial transactions, diligence in corporate governance, and attention to detail in drafting.

Joel's focus on business, corporate, real estate and securities law is rooted in his studies of business finance and business law as an undergraduate at Boston University's School of Management. While earning his J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law, Joel was selected for participation in the Securities and Exchange Commission's prestigious Law Student Observer Program, and was also a member of Seton Hall's Dispute Resolution Society's competition team. 

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