Allison Copeland

Attorney

AUSTIN
4301 Westbank Drive
Building A, Suite 225
Austin, TX 78746

512.703.1408

With over 25 years of experience in private practice and in-house for Computer Sciences Corporation, Ms. Copeland has extensive experience with intellectual property transactions, litigation, and counseling. Her primary areas of expertise are preparing custom agreements, adapting existing agreements to address clients’ needs, and acting as lead negotiator in a wide variety of simple and complex transactions, including software licensing agreements, hardware acquisition and lease agreements, reseller agreements, SaaS agreements, consulting agreements, joint marketing and referral agreements, and other similar transactions. Additionally, Ms. Copeland has experience with open source licensing issues, commercial litigation, and commercial and general business transactions.

Representative Matters

Examples of her transaction experience include:

  • Leading negotiations for a Fortune 500 company for the integration of multiple software applications with an enterprise cloud platform solution offered by a leading industry cloud computing vendor;
  • Leading negotiations for a well-known restaurant chain to participate in a national mobile payments and commerce system;
  • Drafting end-user license terms for a new mobile banking application provided by a prominent banking client;
  • Drafting a data license agreement and leading negotiations for the licensing of entertainment data on behalf of an established publishing and television information company to complete a long-term relationship with a Fortune Global 500 entertainment company;
  • Leading negotiations for a collection of financial institutions seeking to purchase a new cash management system that would allow the financial institutions’ customer the ability to access their loan information and make transfers to and from commercial bank accounts;
  • Leading negotiations for a website development agreement for a financial industry client;
  • Providing support and advice to a start-up technology company specializing in data encryption regarding the use and integration of open source software in relation to its day-to-day development strategies and acquisition process;
  • Leading negotiations for the conversion of an insurance agency and brokerage management software system for a prominent banking client;
  • Leading negotiations on behalf of a worldwide supplier of ATMs and ATM software systems for reseller rights to an embedded software solution with an international software provider;
  • Drafting ownership and profit-sharing agreements for a start-up mobile application provider;
  • Drafting a reseller and distribution agreement for a worldwide supplier of custom art frames;
  • Leading negotiations on behalf of a financial industry client for the implementation of financial services technology and outsourcing services with an international Fortune 500 company; and
  • Leading negotiations on behalf of a quasi-governmental state entity/agency for the replacement of physical infrastructure and implementation of new software and related technology systems in order to implement and support new “smart” technologies across client’s core business operations and its customer service offerings.

Admitted to Practice

States

  • State Bar of Texas

Education

  • University of Texas, J.D.
  • University of Texas, B.A., cum laude