Michael Klepich

Background

About Michael Klepich

Michael is an in-house technology transactions attorney with 10 years in leading multinational companies, including tenures at Dolby and Google. He is relied on for business-focused legal guidance on global operations, corporate transactions, commercial and tech-related agreements, global strategic partnerships, regulatory compliance, and intellectual property strategy. Throughout his career, Michael has accelerated revenue growth and diversification by: • Leading high-value strategic transactions, including M & As and post-acquisition integrations; • Negotiating business-critical commercial deals and global strategic partnerships valued up to $1B+; and • Successfully standing up and growing new product divisions from scratch. Previously, Michael was Director, Licensing Counsel, at Dolby Laboratories, a multinational tech company specializing in audio and imaging technology. He was the primary legal advisor for rapidly growing cloud services (real-time streaming or “RTS”) division, APAC partnerships, open-source use and compliance, advanced technology group, and home devices team. He drafted and negotiated SaaS, licensing, SLAs, manufacturing, and other commercial and technology related agreements. Before that, Michael was Senior Commercial Counsel at Google, where he was primary legal counsel for several verticals, including semiconductor agreements, which later grew to include OEMs for Androids and partnership agreements with North American cell phone carriers. Product managers relied on Michael for practical guidance on international regulatory compliance, open-source use and compliance, and risk management. Michael also mentored several attorneys on his team while at Google. Michael launched his in-house career at NIKE, Inc. as an Assistant General Counsel on the Technology Transactions Team. In addition to drafting and negotiating development agreements, software licensing, development agreements, and equipment purchase agreements, he created and led an internal training program on best practices for open source and third-party collaborations, which he presented to engineering and product management teams. Michael began his legal career as an Intellectual Property Associate at Am Law 20 firm Jones Day. He later joined Morrison & Foerster and Stoel Rives, where he focused on tech transactions. Michael holds a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School. He is admitted to practice law in California.