Dallas
Eric Benoliel (CIPP/US) focuses his practice on technology, outsourcing, and commercial transactions. He counsels clients on various technology and services arrangements, including the development, licensing, and commercialization of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and cryptocurrency platforms. Eric also advises clients on supply, manufacturing, referral, and other strategic partnerships.
Before joining McDermott, Eric served as in-house legal counsel for the US-based subsidiary of a multinational corporation.
- International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), Member
- Dallas Bar Association, Member
- Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, North & Central Texas/Oklahoma Chapter, Board of Directors
- Georgetown University Law Center, JD
- American University, BA
- Texas
- English
Evelyn Yu
New York – One Vanderbilt Avenue
Evelyn Yu focuses her practice on technology transactions, commercial contracts and outsourcing. Evelyn counsels clients on a wide variety of commercial contract matters, including master services agreements, master purchase agreements, distribution agreements, confidentiality agreements, development agreements and technology and intellectual property licenses. She regularly advises clients on cloud computing, software licenses, technology development, e-commerce, software-as-a-service, blockchain, artificial intelligence and technology maintenance and support agreements. She also represents clients in information technology and business process outsourcing transactions.
Prior to joining McDermott Will & Schulte, Evelyn worked on the corporate team for an international corporate law firm. She graduated from the Cornell Tech LLM program in 2020.
- Durham University, LLB
- University of Law, MS
- Cornell Tech, LLM
- New York
Traci Ottenfeld
Chicago
Traci M. Ottenfeld focuses her practice on corporate due diligence and contract management.
During law school, Traci was a federal judicial extern to the Honorable Martin C. Ashman for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
- Case Western Reserve University, JD, cum laude
- Loyola University New Orleans, BS
- Illinois
- Supreme Court of Illinois
Sam Genovese
Dallas
Sam Genovese focuses his practice on technology transactions, outsourcing and other commercial transactions. He counsels clients in a wide variety of technology transactions, including cloud computing, software licenses, technology development and licensing agreements, e-commerce arrangements, software-as-a-service, technology maintenance and service agreements, and software compliance audits. Additionally, he represents clients in information technology and business process outsourcing transactions. Sam also has specialized transactional experience providing legal support to companies in the cryptocurrency and Web3 industry.
- Drafted and negotiated a multimillion-dollar outsourcing agreement on behalf of a leading defense contractor and shipbuilding company for information technology, managed services and data security services
- Drafted and negotiated an outsourcing agreement on behalf of a leading photography and image sharing corporation for engineering, IT, infrastructure, software engineering and data security services
- Drafted an outsourcing agreement on behalf of a hospital corporation for revenue cycle management services
- Dallas Bar Association, member
- Dallas Association of Young Lawyers, member
- SMU Dedman School of Law, JD, cum laude
- University of Maryland, BA
- Texas
- US District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Tiantian Chen
Dallas
Tiantian Chen advises private companies and private equity sponsors in various transactional and corporate matters, including acquisitions, equity financing, entity formation, corporate governance and internal investigations. She is experienced in managing corporate governance documents and performing acquisition and financing due diligence. She has experience reviewing various types of commercial contracts, including purchase and sale agreements, sponsored research agreements, commercial leasing agreements, commercial services agreements and non-disclosure agreements.
- Represented the Chinese subsidiary of an international technology company in connection with its internal investigation for alleged violations of state regulations*
- Represented the US subsidiary of a Chinese company in connection with its technology transactions*
- Represented a US transportation company in its acquisition of a freight forwarding company*
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.
- Creighton University School of Law, JD, magna cum laude
- China Foreign Affairs University, LLB
- California
- Texas
- English
- Chinese (Mandarin)