Michael Orlando

Corporate; Intellectual Property

Michael Orlando is a corporate and intellectual property transactions attorney in Sheppard Mullin's San Diego (Del Mar) office. He is Team Leader of the firm's Technology Transactions Team.

Michael founded a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business prior to attending law school and brings a practical, business-oriented approach to his engagements that focuses on problem solving. Clients trust and enjoy working with him because he looks to understand the business objective behind his clients’ decisions, focuses on what’s important and works tirelessly to achieve those objectives. He is responsive to his clients’ needs and keeps involved throughout each transaction.

Michael advises clients on intellectual property development and licensing, outsourcing, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financing and commercial transactions, including international transactions. He is particularly experienced in cross-border transactions in Europe and spent several months on secondment in Germany. He is consistently a ranked attorney in Legal 500 in the Media, Technology and Telecoms category.

Michael’s cross-disciplines in both intellectual property and corporate law allow him to leverage both practice areas when structuring transactions for his clients, including the use of joint ventures and strategic alliances in the financing, development and licensing of technology.

Michael’s legal practice spans across multiple industries, including software, hardware, medical devices, biotechnology/pharmaceuticals, healthcare IT, financial services, consumer products, sports equipment, apparel, telecommunications, aerospace, automotive, food and beverage, energy and real estate.

Michael has extensive experience assisting companies with their intellectual property and commercial transactions, including:

patent licenses, development and collaboration agreements, clinical trial agreements, and supply, manufacturing, distribution and other outsourcing agreements for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies; software and hardware technology licenses, development agreements, SaaS agreements, maintenance and support agreements, service level agreements, cloud computing arrangements, strategic alliances, joint development agreements, manufacturing and supply agreements, OEM, VAR, reseller and distribution agreements; outsourcing agreements, including information technology outsourcing (ITO), business process outsourcing (BPO), technology development, manufacturing and supply agreements; joint ventures; and offshoring arrangements; online advertising agreements, privacy policies, terms of service, website and mobile application development agreements, hosting agreements and e-commerce fulfillment agreements; and trademark licenses, merchandising agreements, distribution agreements, endorsement/sponsorship agreements, marketing agreements and sweepstakes/content agreements.

M.B.A., University of San Diego, 2003

J.D., University of San Diego, 2002

B.A., University of California, San Diego, 1998