Nora E. Garrote

Representative Matters

• Represents a financial and insurance services company in its migration to cloud financial platform
• Assists an international, nongovernmental organization in its procurement of cloud storage as a service solution and managed financial software products
• Oversees contracts allocation and assignment aspects of a major hotel brand’s reorganization into various public companies
• Negotiates agreements for licensing of well-known characters and stories for location-based entertainment venues
• Represents hotels regularly in reviewing and negotiating property-level contracts for various services, including food and beverage, photography, sponsorship, entertainment rights licensing, and store concessions
• Assists a women’s health medical device company in its product distribution arrangements
• Represented a major hotel brand in contracts for the implementation of an international food and beverage membership program
• Represented a hotel chain in the agreements for the purchase, licensing, and administration of the IP and data assets of another hotel chain, and transfer to a newly formed joint venture
• Assists payment processing companies with partnering arrangements with third parties
• Represents a major social-media company in contracts for benefits technology platforms and services
• Represents companies in contracts for migrating and implementing cloud services
• Assists a mortgage lending and real estate business with digital marketing contracts
• Represented a major direct-marketing company in the order fulfillment, transition, and intellectual property contracts relating to the sale of a majority interest of its worldwide acne medication business, the world's leading nonprescription acne brand, to a global consumer products company
• Represented a direct-marketing company in its agreements for cloud computing, collocation, and shared data center services solutions, in its business process outsourcing of document production and document management functions, and procurement of a hosted on-demand e-commerce platform for online stores
• Represented a local government agency in negotiating and drafting agreements for procurement and implementation of a new ERP system, a new payroll and time system, and the contracts for the integrated payroll fulfillment services
• Represented a financial services company in loan origination and lead management systems contracts
• On behalf of a financial institution, negotiated a transition agreement from its existing affiliation with a third-party banking network and the transition of the technical back-end and branding
• Represented an energy company in its contract with a third-party services provider for extended post-stabilization support for its newly implemented customer care and billing system
• Assisted a trade association with contracts for healthcare data analytics systems and supporting services
• Assisted trade associations on contracts involving learning management systems
• Assisted a health insurer in its development and master services agreements for “software as a service” claim processing, claims administration platform, and analytics and reporting platforms
• Represented, in different transactions, energy companies in their procurement of ERP billing and customer care and analytics systems, and the master services agreements for integration, implementation, and stabilization of those systems
• Represented an insurance and financial services company in agreements for an enterprise “software as a service” information and data management system, licensing and implementation of a financial software system, and a master contract with a hardware vendor for the ongoing provision, installation, and set-up of computer hardware
• Assisted financial institutions with retail online electronic banking terms of use
• Assisted a financial institution with an agreement to integrate, on a Web basis, the bank’s transactional back-end with third-party accounting and business management software
• Assisted a resort operator with an agreement for the development of mobile apps for guest management of events and activities
• Worked with an industrial asset management and disposition company in negotiating and drafting U.S. agreements to provide asset management software on a cloud basis
• Represented a telecom carrier in its framework agreement with a BPO outsourcing company, for cross-outsourcing data processing and telecom services
• Created contracts for software licensing, support, and integration services for a national blood banking system
• Handled the licensing of ERP supply chain and financial systems for a producer of food products
• Drafted settlements in various patent infringement cases for medical devices and drugs
• Represented vendors of security products and online fraud detection services in a variety of technology and data arrangements
• Represented a clothing manufacturer in a supply chain outsourcing arrangement

Education

• J.D. Columbia University School of Law 1983
• • Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
• A.B. magna cum laude Bryn Mawr College 1980

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• Virginia

Professional Memberships and Activities

• Member, District of Columbia Bar Association
• Member, Virginia Bar Association
• Member, Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals

• The Best Lawyers in America, 2014 – 2021
• The Best Lawyers Business Edition, Women in Law, Technology Law, 2017 – 2019
• Who’s Who Legal
  • Data: Information Technology, 2018
  • Telecommunications Media & Technology: Information Technology, 2017
• Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Technology & Outsourcing, Washington, DC, 2011 – 2020
• Legal 500
  • Media, Technology and Telecom – Outsourcing, 2011 – 2020
  • Media, Technology and Telecom – Technology Transactions, 2016 – 2020
• IAM Patent 1000, The World’s Leading Patent Professionals, IP Transactions, 2013 – 2019
• International Who’s Who of Internet, e-Commerce & Data Protection Lawyers, Leading Lawyer, 2011 – 2012
• Intellectual Property Transactions Group, Co-chair (Venable was ranked by U.S. News – Best Lawyers as Tier 1 for Technology Law in the National and Washington, DC regions.)

Pro Bono

• Board member and former executive committee member, Legal Aid Society of Washington, DC
• Instructor, Street Law Program, fall 2018

Volunteerism

• Board member and committee member, Board of Directors, Virginia Hospital Center, Arlington, Virginia
• Board member, Virginia Hospital Center Foundation
• Former member, Board of Visitors, School of Business and Technology, Marymount University