David Rhodes

David Rhodes is a partner at 3rd Gen Law Group LLP.

David’s practice focuses principally on counseling clients with regard to complex commercial and technology transactions and their day-to-day legal requirements. He assists a wide variety of clients, ranging from venture capital-backed start-up companies to global conglomerates across a broad range of industries including outsourcing, software, web-based companies, consumer packaged goods, non-profits, heavy industry, and biomedical companies. David has drafted, reviewed, and negotiated thousands of contracts associated with creating, exploiting, and disposing of a wide variety of intellectual property assets. David’s contract expertise includes developing agreements for services, technology licenses and sales, outsourcing, cloud computing, referral and reseller arrangements, collaborations, terms and conditions for the sale and licensing of products, and manufacturing as well as marketing and distribution arrangements.

Prior to co-founding 3rd Gen Law Group LLP (formerly Fitzgerald & Rhodes LLP) in 2010, David practiced law for 12 years at Arnold & Porter LLP. Before initiating his legal career, he worked as part of an executive team managing software development and data center management for Fingerhut Companies. David graduated magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from Tulane University Law School and earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Macalester College with a concentration in Chemistry. David is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the State Bar of Maryland.

Practice Areas

The representative matters, below, describe a few representative samples of David’s recent projects spanning the areas of outsourcing, commercial contracting, business formation, and technology services, sales and licensing, and intellectual property matters.

• Outsourcing David regularly represents an international outsourcing company in negotiations with new and existing clients for business process outsourcing of corporate information management functions. Counterparties generally are Fortune 100 companies in the banking and retail industries.
• Commercial Contracting Founded by Bono and Bob Geldolf, The ONE Campaign is an international advocacy organization for which David serves day-to-day commercial contracting needs. Recent representative transactions include negotiating an agreement for the development of software, an outsourcing agreement for specific marketing services, and a professional services agreement for content creation.
• Technology Services Together with 3rd Gen Law Group LLP’s other partners, David represented a long-standing government contracting company in all transactional aspects associated with spinning out a new company (with new owners and investors). The new company aims to leverage the existing company’s technology, which provides services to various governments in new service applications aimed at attracting private sector customers.
• Software David works with a number of companies developing software licensing strategies and managing the day-to-day negotiation of software licenses as part of those companies sales process.
• Sales and Licensing Sales and Licensing David represented a heavy equipment manufacturer in developing a sales and licensing model for a new technology sold in connection with its existing product base. David is also assisting a new venture capital-backed software company that needs a licensing model and license agreements for a new product in the mobile telecommunications market.
• Intellectual Property Matters David represented a publicly traded private equity firm in the due diligence requirements for both the acquisition and disposition of intellectual property assets.