KING & FISHER - Key Persons
Alfred Cheng is an experienced and trusted advisor to clients that vary in size and industry. He counsels clients on a broad range of technology and intellectual property-related transactions, including cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS) offerings, software licensing and maintenance/support services, IT and business process outsourcing, technology development, and distribution and reseller arrangements. Alfred enjoys working closely with his clients to understand their businesses and to help them achieve their goals and objectives, while taking a pragmatic approach to drafting and negotiating contracts.
Chad King's practice has an emphasis in the areas of technology transactions, Internet law, intellectual property law (including trademarks and copyrights), corporate law, and business law. He regularly negotiates on behalf of companies ranging from startups to Fortune 10 in the acquisition of mission-critical, enterprise-level technology, and professional services. Prior to founding King & Fisher, Chad was a Partner at Hughes & Luce and K&L Gates. Chad advises businesses on licensing, intellectual property and privacy issues related to technology and the Internet.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Member of the Board
Dawn Perotti's practice encompasses a broad range of outsourcing and technology transactions. These include global information technology and business process outsourcing agreements, cloud computing agreements, infrastructure as a service agreements, software as a service agreements, customer care/call center agreements, software development agreements, licensing and marketing agreements, and telecom agreements. She also counsels clients on data security and privacy issues. Throughout her decades of practice, Dawn has helped both service providers and users which has resulted in her having a strong understanding of the pressures that both sides face in a negotiation. Prior to joining King & Fisher, Dawn was a solo practitioner following eleven years as a member of Haynes and Boone's Technology Transactions and Outsourcing Practice Group. She started her law career while in law school as a contract specialist and after graduation as an in-house attorney at MCI Telecommunications.
In her free time, Dawn provides pro bono legal services to Dallas Children Advocacy Center and Genesis Women's Shelter. In addition, she serves as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) and a Guardian Ad Litem in the Dallas County Family courts. As well, Dawn and her husband David, who works in private equity, enjoy golfing, playing tennis and spending time with their three boys. Two of their sons are in college (Texas A&M and Georgia respectively) and their third son recently graduated from SMU and works as a financial analyst.
Eric Begun is a technology, outsourcing, cybersecurity, and intellectual property attorney focusing on business deals and transactions. Eric has over 20 years' experience, and he brings to his client-focused and customer service oriented legal practice a mix of pragmatism, candor, and appreciation for the business and other relationships underlying the transactions and matters he advises on. In addition to his many years as a partner at Blank Rome, he practiced law in-house at Intel, Hewlett-Packard, McAfee, and a DuPont technology spin-off. Eric is instrumental in helping his clients buy, sell, license (in and out), distribute and generally deal with information technology, other technologies, and technology services.
Job Titles:
- Founder of the Association
Todd Fisher advises large multinational corporations, middle market businesses and emerging companies in negotiating, structuring, and drafting their commercial agreements, with an emphasis on outsourcing agreements (ITO, BPO, and Real Estate Services), information technology services agreements, cloud computing agreements, technology licensing agreements and telecom agreements. Prior to founding King & Fisher, Todd was an associate at Jones Day, and a Partner at K&L Gates.
Todd is a founder of the Association of Technology Law Professionals, a member-based organization of in-house lawyers who are responsible for technology, outsourcing, procurement, and similar commercial transactions at their companies. The group was formed to allow in-house lawyers to share best practices and discuss trends and issues in technology, outsourcing, and commercial transactions.
Todd also was a founder of The Emerging Growth Series, an interactive seminar series aimed at providing entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies with the resources and information needed to grow their business. The series, which was sponsored by K&L Gates, Ernst & Young, JPMorgan Chase and STARTech Foundation, ran for more than four years.
Todd was a founder of Legal Cloud Central (www.legalcloudcentral.com), a blog focused on issues and developments involving cloud computing (Software as a Service ("SaaS"), Infrastructure as a Service ("IaaS"), and Platform as a Service ("PaaS")).