He 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 and health care IT transactions valued as high as $100 million. He regularly counsels hospitals and other health care providers on IT and intellectual property issues. 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.
Mr. Sloan routinely advises clients on such intellectual property law issues as trademark selection and protection, copyright protection, nondisclosure agreements, trade secret protection and domain name disputes. He is a recognized authority on intellectual property licensing, and is the author of the licensing chapter of both editions of the American Bar Association's book Intellectual Property Deskbook for the Business Lawyer. He has handled a variety of website-related disputes, including privacy policies, terms of use, click-wrap, browsewrap, and similar online agreements, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and domain name disputes under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. In the entertainment law sector, Mr. Sloan regularly represents book publishers in connection with a variety of domestic and foreign publishing and licensing matters.
He was former chairman of the board of the Nashville Technology Council, and continues to serve as general counsel. Mr. Sloan was a member of the Nashville Chamber's Partnership 2010 Entrepreneurship Task Force and serves on the advisory board for the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. Mr. Sloan is a long-standing member of the executive committee of the Tennessee Bar Association's Intellectual Property Law Committee.
Mr. Sloan is a frequent speaker and contributor to CLE seminars, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, Nashville Technology Council events and other similar events. Follow him on Twitter @casloan and LinkedIn @chrissloanesq.