Frederic M. Tudor

Frederic M. Tudor, a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Corporate Department, serves as outside general counsel to a wide range of companies – from startups to established companies – providing guidance and assistance on general corporate, intellectual property/technology and financing matters. He focuses on counseling technology and other companies with respect to their international business operations and transactions, including negotiating and drafting complex SaaS, licensing, support, professional services, product development, distribution and outsourcing arrangements, as well as day-to-day corporate governance issues, shareholder and employment agreements and disputes, and website and privacy terms and policies. He has also helped guide numerous companies, and their investors, through early stage and venture financings, bank financings, strategic partnerships, and exit/merger and acquisition transactions.

Mr. Tudor also has experience as an in-house lawyer. He previously managed all of the legal affairs of an international software and IT consulting company based in New York City as its Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary. In that role he worked on projects and with partners in the United States and throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Having been both inside and outside counsel during his more than 30 years of practice, Mr. Tudor has been both a provider and a buyer of legal services. He understands how businesses operate and the type of practical and efficient advice that the members of the senior management team require from their counsel in order to make difficult business decisions.