BRENDAN DOHERTY
Westwood,MA
Summary
Trusted senior legal advisor specializing in the development, sale, acquisition and divestiture of technology assets, associated regulatory compliance and governance matters, and the creation and management of the legal function.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
General Counsel and Secretary
EXADEL, INC.
04.2022 - 05.2025
- Chief legal officer and first lawyer for this $165M private equity owned global software services company
- Established the legal function and responsible for managing all legal aspects of company operations
- Successfully managed relationships with outside counsel, decreasing outside counsel spend by 58%
- Strategic advisor to executive leadership and the board of directors on strategic decisions, to minimize legal risks and ensure positive outcomes
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop all policies, processes, procedures and templates for commercial customer and vendor transactions
- Drove revenue growth through thoughtful negotiation of strategic customer relationship agreements
- Oversaw corporate governance matters including entity formation, maintenance, and dissolution activities for 20+ subsidiaries around the globe.
- Led merger and acquisition due diligence investigations and successfully managed legal integration aspects for three company acquisitions
- Enhanced company compliance by developing and implementing comprehensive legal policies and procedures.
Chief Legal Officer
HCL SOFTWARE
12.2018 - 04.2022
- Chief Legal Officer and first lawyer for a $2B+ startup and wholly-owned subsidiary of HCL Technologies, Ltd.
- Strategic advisor to executive management team on all legal aspects of business operations
- Implemented the legal function by recruiting, training and managing a global team of 30 products and sales lawyers
- Oversaw negotiation and closure of all customer sales activities
- Responsible for all legal aspects of software engineering and product development, including but not limited to privacy by design, secure development best practices and the appropriate use of third party and open source software
- Developed and implemented legal policies and procedures relating to sales activities, including FCPA, channels and related anti-trust matters, and marketing and communications activities
Vice President and Assistant General Counsel
CA TECHNOLOGIES
04.2011 - 12.2018
- Division counsel for CA's $2.4 billion mainframe business, workload automation business and two accelerator startup businesses
- Trusted advisor to the businesses on all legal aspects of business unit operations as a member of the executive leadership team
- Assisted sales counsel in negotiating complex enterprise software licensing, services and channel partner transactions
- Counseled and trained engineering teams on development best practices, license metrics and the use of third party and open source software
- Assisted the businesses on mergers and acquisitions, employment matters, communications and marketing, government and industry standards compliance, secure development best practices, and litigation involving CA products and intellectual property
- CA Chief Export Counsel
Vice President and Senior Counsel
CA TECHNOLOGIES
04.2007 - 04.2011
- Division counsel to CA's Security, Service Management and Product and Portfolio Management business units
- Assisted sales counsel in negotiating complex enterprise software licensing and services transactions
- Provided strategic counsel to CA's incubation technologies center at Stony Brook University
- Authored internal policies, procedures and best practices for product development, support, copyright, privacy, social media, use of CA systems, product roadmap communications and the appropriate use of competitive intelligence
Counsel
CA TECHNOLOGIES
11.2004 - 04.2007
- Negotiated inbound and outbound technology license agreements with large enterprise customers in the banking, financial services and telecommunications industries in the Northeast and North America
- Worked closely with the CA direct and channel sales force in negotiating a wide variety of direct customer and channel partner agreements for the licensing of CA software, and for the sale of CA services, support and education
- Served as a member of the CA law department subcommittees on form simplification and negotiation playbook.
Counsel
MOTOROLA, INC.
09.1999 - 06.2001
- Provided a variety of general corporate legal services for all departments within the Multiservice Networks Division
- Drove revenue by negotiating a wide variety of corporate channel agreements, including MSP, VAR and OEM agreements
- Advanced strategic relationships by negotiating development, marketing, engineering, procurement/RFP, manufacturing, non-disclosure, partnering and software and technology licensing agreements for the Division's North American and Asia Pacific regions
- Advised senior management on marketing, copyright and trademark matters, anti-trust matters, litigation exposure, employment policies and technology transfer matters;
- Developed standard agreement forms for Motorola's global use as a member of Motorola's Contracts Policy Committee
Education
J.D. -
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
Boston, MAM.B.A. - undefined
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Boston, MAB.S. - Business Administration
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Boston, MASkills
- Strategic Advisor
- Law Department Management
- Policy Development
- Risk Management and Mitigation
- Corporate Governance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Customer Sales Closure
- Artificial Intelligence
- Privacy and Data Security
- Business Enablement
- Value Creation
- Service Orientation
Timeline
General Counsel and Secretary
EXADEL, INC.
04.2022 - 05.2025
Chief Legal Officer
HCL SOFTWARE
12.2018 - 04.2022
Vice President and Assistant General Counsel
CA TECHNOLOGIES
04.2011 - 12.2018
Vice President and Senior Counsel
CA TECHNOLOGIES
04.2007 - 04.2011
Counsel
CA TECHNOLOGIES
11.2004 - 04.2007
Counsel
MOTOROLA, INC.
09.1999 - 06.2001
M.B.A. - undefined
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
B.S. - Business Administration
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
J.D. -
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
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