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• Hunton & Williams LLP
• Alston & Bird LLP
• Duane Morris LLP

• Florida
• Georgia
• New York

• Wake Forest University School of Law, J.D., 1986
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.S., Mathematics, 1983

Mr. Meadows brings 25 years of experience focused almost exclusively on technology transactions and related legal matters. He counsels clients on technology matters outside of their traditional core competencies, ranging from structuring (or terminating) long-term or strategic information technology or business process outsourcing relationships to creating Internet and e-Business offerings to negotiating and documenting a wide variety of strategic and complex transactions.  His clients are among the largest companies in the world, spanning a wide range of industries, including financial services and insurance, energy, transportation and logistics, travel, telecommunications, technology and related services, manufacturing and media services.

Mr. Meadows has been ranked as one of America's leading lawyers by both Chambers Global and Chambers USA for Outsourcing, and as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" for Information Technology Law, as published in Best Lawyers in America. He was the inaugural Best Lawyers’ Atlanta Information Technology Lawyer of the Year.  He is a Past Chair of the Technology Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, and a past Appointee and Secretary to the Information Technology Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

• Counsel  to leading travel-related services company in the negotiation of its principal travel reservations outsourcing relationships, and in outsourcing of the development and operation of its consumer facing online travel business
• Counsel to Wall Street investment banking firm in highly-regulated business process outsourcing transactions supporting various aspects of its global trading operations, both inter-affiliate and split among two offshore vendors.
• Counsel to leading U.S. utility company in the procurement of a large-scale advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system, with a total deal value well in excess of $300 million
• Counsel to leading global provider of in-home movie and game entertainment in outsourcing of IT infrastructure services and online hosting of external website.
• Counsel to Wall Street investment banking firm in the procurement of mission critical telecommunications infrastructure to support its worldwide trading operations.
• Counsel to major transportation company in the procurement of portable data terminal equipment for use by all drivers and other delivery personnel, and in the re-design of its entire website (external).
• Counsel to global online advertising and media company in outsourcing of IT infrastructure services, application development and maintenance, transactional accounting services and media support services.
• Counsel to wireless telecommunications provider, in connection with the operational aspects of its $2.5 billion sale of network infrastructure and spectrum to another wireless provider.
• Counsel to major telecommunications company and global insurance company in the evaluation, and positioning for renegotiation, of contested IT infrastructure transactions valued at $8 billion and $700 million, respectively.
• Counsel to leading provider of mattresses, pillows and accessories in outsourcing of payroll, tax filing, benefits administration and other HR data processing services, and in outsourcing of IT infrastructure hosting services.
• Counsel to global chemicals manufacturer in outsourcing the establishment of an EU shared services center for finance and accounting, procurement and other business functions.
• Counsel to major natural gas energy company in outsourcing of customer care/call center, finance and accounting, engineering and construction and supply chain functions to offshore vendor, and separate transactions with other offshore vendors for application development and maintenance services.
• Counsel to the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority in a $1 billion acquisition of an automatic fare collection system.