Michael Orlando is a corporate and intellectual property transactions attorney in the firm's San Diego (Del Mar) office. He is Team Leader of the firm's Technology Transactions Team, and a member of the Life Sciences and Healthcare teams. He is the host of the Health-e Law podcast, produced by Sheppard Mullin’s Digital Health Team.
Michael founded a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business prior to attending law school, and worked at a publicly-traded biotechnology company on an in-house secondment, and brings a practical, business-oriented approach to his engagements that focuses on problem solving.
Michael uses his technical expertise and legal skills to advise cutting-edge technology companies and innovators in developing, commercializing, and procuring technology, including in connection with licensing, outsourcing, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, collaborations, strategic partnerships and commercial agreements. Michael's cross-disciplines in both intellectual property and corporate law allow him to leverage both practice areas when structuring transactions for his clients.
Michael's legal practice spans across multiple industries, with particular emphasis on biotechnology/pharmaceuticals, medical devices, digital health and healthcare IT, aerospace, and automotive technologies, including electric, autonomous and connected vehicle technologies.
Michael has extensive experience assisting clients, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, with their intellectual property and commercial transactions, including:
- patent and know-how licenses, research, development and strategic collaboration agreements, co-promotion agreements, clinical trial agreements, and supply, manufacturing, distribution, logistics and other outsourcing agreements for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies, including for pre-clinical, clinical, and commercial products;
- Telehealth services agreements, wearable device and remote patient monitoring agreements, mobile health application terms of service, data use agreements, healthcare information exchange agreements, revenue cycle management agreements, EHR system procurement, installation and services agreements, AI/ML and clinical decision support software development and licensing, research agreements, and collaborations and joint ventures for digital health technology companies, health insurers, and healthcare systems and physician organizations;
- software and hardware technology licenses, IT procurement agreements, SaaS/PaaS/IaaS agreements, Service Level Agreements, maintenance and support agreements, connected (IOT) device agreements, and OEM, VAR, reseller and distribution agreements; and
- outsourcing agreements, including information technology outsourcing (ITO), business process outsourcing (BPO), outsourced development, manufacturing and supply agreements; and offshoring arrangements.