Jennifer Baumann concentrates her practice in the areas of information technology, intellectual property and licensing, e-commerce, outsourcing and issues with respect to social media (including advertising and promotions).

Ms. Baumann has extensive experience negotiating and drafting a wide range of agreements including both national and international complex strategic commercial arrangements, outsourcing and consulting, software licensing, co-branding, distribution and merchandising arrangements. She has counseled several clients on transactions with respect to social media (including with complex marketing, subscriber acquisition and data mining/analytics issues). In addition, she has extensive experience with transactions in the financial services industry and other industries concerning various forms of payment, such as credit and debit/ATM card transactions, processors and loyalty or reward programs.

Ms. Baumann also focuses her practice on intellectual property and technology issues related to mergers and acquisitions and has additional experience in intellectual property litigation, domestic and international trademark prosecution, copyrights, domain name disputes, on-line gaming issues and sweepstakes. She also counsels companies from large multinationals to emerging tech and startup clients on Internet and e-commerce issues, among them terms of use, privacy policies and strategic operations.

She has worked with companies in a wide range of industries. Among her clients have been companies in the financial services, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, retail/fashion, real estate, entertainment, food and agriculture, telecommunications and software industries, as well as major Internet companies. She also advises several nonprofit organizations.

In 2010, Ms. Baumann was designated a Rising Star by Illinois Super Lawyers. In 2010 and 2011, Ms. Baumann was mentioned in Legal 500 as an upcoming lawyer based on her experience counseling on social media issues and transactions.

Representative Transactions

• Represented a global financial services company in its $200M+ outsourcing of card processing services
• Represented a large insurance company in outsourcing and offshoring its corporate finance and accounting department
• Represented a fast-growing internet business in its strategic relationship with a major online travel agency expected to generate multi-million dollar revenues
• Represented a financial services company in its $100M+ licensing and hosting of an IT solution for its commercial lending business
• Represented a large international hotel and hospitality corporation in its $50M+ outsourcing and offshoring of help desk and network monitoring services
• Represented a large international hotel and hospitality corporation in its affinity brand credit card arrangement with a financial services company and card association
• Represented a large public specialty pharmaceutical corporation in numerous agreements including distribution, IT, licensing, research and development, manufacturing, service provider and confidentiality agreements associated with new business opportunities
• Represented a large public specialty pharmaceutical corporation to in-license technology for milestone and royalty payments for a dermatological product in Phase I clinical development
• Represented a large, international provider of food, agriculture and risk management products and services in licensing software valued at more than $1 billion
• Represented a large for-profit educational services company in a strategic co-marketing and purchasing arrangement to allow portfolio universities located throughout the world to purchase materials and obtain consulting services
• Represented a Fortune 500 and Top 50 brand owner in several digital content development and distribution agreements as part of licensing program
• Regularly represents a well-known museum on a pro bono basis in its general commercial transactions including for new exhibitions, events and day-to-day operations