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Frank A. Pugliese

Frank Pugliese is a member of the Technology Law Practice.

Mr. Pugliese’s practice areas include software and technology licensing and development; information technology and business process outsourcing; e-commerce; and telecommunications. He regularly negotiates and counsels clients with respect to:

• sourcing arrangements, including BPO and IT outsourcing
• technology acquisition, development, customization and implementation
• enterprise software procurement and licensing
• OEM, VAR, distribution and supply agreements
• intellectual property acquisition due diligence
• open source
• privacy and data security
• technology and IP licensing
• Internet law
• best practices and industry trends
• general business matters

Among Mr. Pugliese’s representative matters are the following:

• Represented one of the largest blood centers in the outsourcing of its IT department, including application development and staff.
• Represented a major investment bank in a development, licensing and maintenance transaction for the creation of its energy commodities trading platform.
• Represented a major New York hospital in an outsourcing agreement for the operation of its data center and maintenance and development of its software applications, and in an inter-entity transition services agreement as part of the hospitals’ unwinding of its earlier merger.
• Represented a global media company in an e-commerce fulfillment services transaction.
• Represented a major cosmetics company in the procurement and implementation of a global ERP (enterprise resource planning) system.
• Represented a national commercial property owner in an outsourcing transaction involving its call center operations.
• Represented a commercial bank in an ASP arrangement for the hosting of its commercial loan portfolio business.
• Represented a national commercial property owner in the outsourcing of its real estate accounting department.
• Represented a national telecommunications provider for the provision of high speed Internet access for the resort hotels of a major U.S. theme park.
• Represented a major cable company for the development of a dedicated telecommunications network.
• Represented an owner of U.S. convention centers in the creation of wireless “hot spots” in its facilities.
• Represented a short message service (SMS) provider in the creation of customer, reseller and OEM agreement templates.

Mr. Pugliese is a regular contributor to Baker Hostetler’s Data Privacy Monitor blog, offering commentary on data privacy and information security topics, and is recognized as a leading U.S. practitioner in Best Lawyers in America and New York Super Lawyer.