Profile
Jonathan Shamay-Draluck is a seasoned transactional attorney who has led complex, high-value arrangements on behalf of, or opposite, dozens of Fortune 100 companies.
With a particular focus on digital infrastructure, Jonathan has represented investors, hyperscalers, and landowners in data center campus development and the full range of ancillary commercial arrangements. He has also negotiated deployment of subsea and terrestrial fiber and supported operation of networks around the globe.
He has advised space and defense tech companies throughout their development lifecycle, in M&A, sponsored research, manufacturing, integration, assembly, logistics, launch, and operations. In this regard, he has supported teaming arrangements, SBIR and CRADA opportunities, negotiations with military customers or prime contractors, and subcontracts for critical vendor inputs.
His broad technology practice has brought him to serve in a variety of other roles including as “outside GC” and in-house counsel to technology companies. Leading contracting functions at large IT consulting firms, he aligned proprietary offerings, professional services and third-party systems, to enable enterprises to leverage AI and other high-throughput platforms.
Beyond the technology sector, Jonathan has represented pharmaceutical and medical device companies as they negotiated M&A, clinical trials, technology transfer, patent licensing, and manufacture agreements.
Concentrations
- Data Infrastructure Deployment
- Space & Satellite
- U.S. Market Entry
- Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
- Software and SaaS Platforms
Áreas de Atuação
Experiência
- Represented landowner in development of data center campus valued at tens of billions of dollars.
- Advised one of the largest real estate developers in data center joint venture.
- Supported defense tech companies in dozens of proposals and associated teaming to all branches of the U.S. armed forces and their warfare research centers.
- Devised and negotiated arrangements for data center leases, undersea cable rights, and fiber capacity.
- Represented various top-10 pharmaceutical companies in clinical trial agreements and other matters.°
- Closed global master carrier services agreement between two Fortune 35 companies.
- Supported development, back-end, and distribution of a SaaS offering to provide industry-specific weather insights to space and weather agencies, military, and the largest airlines, enterprises and foundations.°
- Advised on research, procurement, licensing and manufacture for launch and operation of a multi-sensor satellite constellation.°
- Arranged deployment of edge infrastructure for a global VoIP network in over 100 countries.°
- Counseled a global credit card consortium on practices relating to the promotion of security standards.°
- Negotiated technology procurement for a world-leading academic institution.°
- Crafted arrangements on behalf of global and startup biotech companies for sponsored research, technology transfer and other collaboration, patent licensing, material transfer and evaluation, design and manufacturing, and pre-clinical and clinical trials.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Shamay-Draluck prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
- Antitrust Litigator, Special Advisor to Director, Speechwriter, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, 1991-1997 (Washington, D.C.)
- Advisor to Government of Romania, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1996 (Bucharest)
- Chief Legal Officer, The Tomorrow Companies Inc., 2021-2024
- Associate General Counsel, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, 2020-2021
- SVP & General Counsel, REAN Cloud LLC (acquired by Hitachi Vantara LLC), 2017-2019
- VP Business Affairs, General Counsel & Secretary, iBasis, Inc., 2000-2006
Reconhecimento & Liderança
- Sabbatical Fellowship Award in Talmud, Pardes Institute
- Honored, Boston Business Journal, “40 Under 40” Business and Community Leaders
- Featured, Mass High Tech, “Mover and Innovators”
- Founding Member, Alliance for Digital Innovation
- Co-Founder, BionetworQ
- Former Co-Chair, Boston Bar Association Corporate Law Committee
- Pitch Coach and Judge, MassChallenge
Credenciais
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J.D., Emory University School of Law
- Articles Editor, Emory International Law Review
- Recipient, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan Tax Award
- B.A., University of Pennsylvania
- District of Columbia
- Massachusetts
- Israel
- Hebrew, Fluente