Peter J. Frazza

Peter has been involved in transactions involving almost 500 different software licensors and software-as-a-service providers. His practice focuses on:

• Representing companies in lawsuits and threats of lawsuits involving software, copyright, failed implementations, intellectual property, and license agreement issues.
• Representing companies in connection with the negotiation, drafting, and preparation of software license, software-as-a-service, hardware, software development, and maintenance agreements.
• Representing companies in connection with data privacy, protection, and security issues.
• Representing companies in connection with hosting services agreements.
• Representing companies in connection with software audits and software audit lawsuits.
• Representing companies in connection with implementation services agreements, including the preparation and negotiation of detailed statements of work and project plans.
• Working with companies to create their own form software license agreements, maintenance agreements, software as a service agreement, RFPs, RFIs, service agreements, and statements of work.
• Conducting in-house software license/software-as-a-service training sessions.

For almost 25 years, Peter has conducted annual or biannual seminars on “Keys to Negotiating Better Software Agreements and Software-as-a-Service Agreements,” which representatives of more than 1,000 companies across the country have attended.

Peter has represented healthcare systems with licensing and the implementation of Electronic Health Record systems and issues relating to problems with such systems, handling, in particular, negotiations for new contracts, analysis of existing contracts to address problems and issues, and renegotiations of contracts. More broadly, the types of transactions he has worked on for hospitals also include:

• Health Information Exchange
• Electronic medical records (EMR)
• Personal health records
• Single sign-on
• Device integration
• OR information management system
• Revenue Cycle Systems
• Clinical information systems for different areas of the hospital
• Patient folder systems for EMR
• Clinical context
• Data center outsourcing
• Business Associate Agreements

Peter over the years has also handled complex litigation and arbitration matters in the areas of accounting malpractice, franchise practices, trademark and copyright disputes, business torts, unfair competition, shareholder and partnership disputes, and employment law.