Mr. Sloan helps many early-stage, high-growth businesses with business planning and formation, venture capital funding, drafting and negotiating vendor and customer agreements, strategic contract negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property protection and other general business law and intellectual property law issues. He often serves as outside general counsel for these types of companies.
Mr. Sloan regularly represents both technology and brick-and-mortar clients in connection with software, IT and other vendor contract negotiations, including software, information technology transactions valued as high as $100 million. He regularly counsels hospitals and other health care companies on health IT, digital health, and intellectual property issues, including issues related to telehealth, telemedicine, wearables, mobile health applications, artificial intelligence, and virtual and augmented reality. As the leader of the firm's Blockchain & Cryptocurrency team, he also counsels clients on matters related to blockchain, cryptocurrency, DeFi, and similar distributed ledger technologies.
Mr. Sloan takes pride in providing his clients with practical, cost-effective advice tailored for each client's unique business objectives. He is actively involved in the technology and entrepreneur communities, and he is a frequent author, speaker, board member and leader in that community.
He is a master mentor and board member of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, and he was a member of the Nashville Chamber's Partnership 2010 Entrepreneurship Task Force that led to its formation. He is a former board chair of the Nashville Technology Council and still serves as its general counsel.
Mr. Sloan is a frequent speaker and contributor to CLE seminars, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, Nashville Technology Council and Nashville Entrepreneur Center events, and other similar events. Follow him on Twitter @casloan and LinkedIn @chrissloanesq.