Michael Williams

Trusted legal counsel serving high-growth software, technology, and health care organizations in the United States and Canada. Informed advisor, clear communicator, proven negotiator, and steady leader with a commercial mindset, thoughtfully weighing risks against business objectives. Notable achievements include (1) leading all legal components of dozens of rounds of debt and equity financing and multiple acquisitions, (2) architecting and implementing the regulatory compliance programs of America’s largest care coordination network (which includes the records of over 100 million individuals across 40+ states), and (3) hiring, mentoring, and managing teams of in-house legal counsel to negotiate and execute thousands of commercial contracts that generate hundreds of millions of dollars in combined ARR. Licensed member of the Utah State Bar. Skills: corporate governance, corporate finance, venture capital and private equity financing, debt financing, private M&A, antitrust, due diligence, cap table management, shareholder communications, board meeting minutes, board written consents, risk management, commercial contracts (drafting, negotiating, managing), software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), product development counsel, software licensing, cross-border transactions, complex transactions, government contracting/procurement, health care contracting compliance (e.g., Stark Law, anti-kickback statute, etc.), AI governance, information privacy compliance (e.g., HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, FERPA, PCI DSS, CCPA/CPRA, VCDPA, UCPA, PIPEDA, PHIPA, GDPR, etc.), data licensing, incident response management, medical records compliance, policy creation and maintenance, intellectual property management, IP licensing, IP assignments, trademark registration and maintenance, employment law, HR compliance, executive compensation, employment separation, variable compensation plans, employer-sponsored benefits and third-party administrator (TPA) compliance (e.g., ERISA), commercial real estate leases, accessibility compliance (e.g., Section 508), consumer marketing compliance (e.g., TCPA, CAN-SPAM, etc.), legal operations, supervising outside counsel, management/leadership, public speaking, presentation preparation and delivery, Microsoft Office, Google Workspace (G Suite), Salesforce, etc.