072: Spend Time Where Your Clients Spend Time – Chris Sloan

Chris Sloan is chair of Baker Donelson’s Emerging Companies Group and focuses his practice on start-ups and other emerging businesses and also handles complex software and other IT transactions for both small and large companies alike. He helps many early-stage, high-growth businesses with business planning and formation, venture capital funding, drafting and negotiating vendor and customer agreements, strategic contract negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property protection and other general business law and intellectual property law issues. He often serves as outside general counsel for these types of companies.

Mr. Sloan regularly represents both technology and brick-and-mortar clients in connection with software, IT and other vendor contract negotiations, including software and health care IT transactions valued as high as $100 million. He regularly counsels hospitals and other health care providers on IT and intellectual property issues. Mr. Sloan takes pride in providing his clients with practical, cost-effective advice tailored for each client’s unique business objectives. He is actively involved in the technology and entrepreneur communities, and he is a frequent author, speaker, board member and leader in that community.

He is actively involved in the Nashville Technology Council and currently serves as general counsel. Mr. Sloan was a member of the Nashville Chamber’s Partnership 2010 Entrepreneurship Task Force and serves on the advisory board for the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. Mr. Sloan is a long-standing member of the executive committee of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Law Committee.

Success Quote/Mantra:

Showing up counts

Recommended Resource:

http://us.practicallaw.com

Recommended Book:

Bargaining for Advantage, Richard Shell

Contact Info:

bakerdonelson.com

http://www.bakerdonelson.com/chris-sloan/

csloan@bakerdonelson.com

@casloan

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