Jean Marie R. Pechette is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Chicago office. Jean focuses her practice on information technology and intellectual property matters, with a concentration on the health care industry.
Jean has represented and counseled public and privately held companies in various industries, including information technology and health care (such as providers of medical devices, electronic medical records and other clinical information systems). She has provided advice on structuring and negotiating complex commercial transactions, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, technology transfer, software and content development, licensing, and distribution and hosting agreements, and counseling with respect to data privacy and security, HIPAA, the HITECH Act and regulatory compliance issues unique to the health care industry.
Jean has more than 20 years of experience in private practice and six years of experience working in-house for several of GE Healthcare’s emerging high-growth information technology and imaging archiving business units. She played an integral role in the growth of the business from a start-up venture (under $50 million) to an almost $2 billion business. She has partnered with cross-functional and business development teams in evaluating potential targets, conducting due diligence, and structuring and negotiating acquisitions. She has also led integration projects, including developing and implementing regulatory compliance policies and processes, privacy and security protection programs, new “go to market” contract templates and processes, and intellectual property protection strategies and programs for acquired entities.
Jean has structured, negotiated and closed more than 200 acquisition, licensing, distribution, development and strategic alliance transactions worldwide.
Jean is admitted to practice in Illinois and Indiana. She is the co-chair of the Life Sciences and Physical Sciences Division of the Section of Science and Technology Law of the American Bar Association. She is also an honorary member of the board of directors of the Asian American Bar Association of Chicago and clerked for Judge Patrick D. Sullivan of the Indiana Court of Appeals early in her career.
Representative Experience
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Represented an industry leader in clinical information systems and health care revenue management with negotiating exclusive reseller, development, license and services agreements involving certain clinical management and electronic medical records systems to be provided to government-funded users in Canada using a third-party hosted ASP portal
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Represented a publicly traded medical devices company in developing and designing an enterprise contract management and compliance system for use in its global operations
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Represented one of the world’s largest suppliers of advanced blood technologies in structuring and negotiating its agreements with vendors to license, develop, customize, implement, host and support various mission-critical software applications
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Represented GE Healthcare in negotiating numerous distribution, reselling, sublicensing, hosting, and joint technology or content development agreements with major hardware and software vendors or health care institutions
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Represented leading consumer credit reporting agency in customizing contract templates for emerging growth health care IT business
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Represented a business unit of a publicly held company that is a global leader in the manufacture and service of pace-setting excavating and drilling machines in negotiating an enterprise level long-term master software license and support agreement and a master services agreement involving the design, licensing, development, implementation and support of strategic mission-critical software systems
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Represented a leading green technology provider to the environmental markets of water and soil remediation in negotiating an exclusive patent license agreement involving encapsulation technologies
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Represented a start-up technology incubator in negotiating and structuring a joint collaboration agreement, including patent and intellectual property licensing, with a major medical device vendor
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Represented a start-up health care information provider in connection with updating business associate agreements with covered entities and lower tier contractors, privacy and security protection policies, and procedures and compliance training programs to comply with the HITECH Act
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Represented a start-up health care information provider in connection with analyzing intellectual property ownership and potential infringement issues and implementing clean room policies and procedures for the development of a new health risk assessment platform
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Represented a teleradiology service provider with respect to a potential dispute arising from the licensing of a radiology information system
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Represented a software consulting, development and implementation services company in negotiating a variety of software licensing, development, system implementation and master consulting services agreements with its end-user customers
- Represented an internet retail information and services provider in connection with intellectual property protection and enforcement, creating data privacy and security policies, user terms and conditions, and linking agreements, and in negotiating web and content design, development, licensing and hosting agreements
Education
- Indiana University School of Law, J.D., 1980
- Indiana University, B.A. (summa cum laude), 1977
Languages Spoken
- English
- French
