Holland & Knight LLP

James Paine is an Atlanta business attorney who focuses his national technology transactions practice on information technology and business process outsourcing matters, enterprise resource planning (ERP) licensing, implementation and support, cloud solutions, including software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and other technology transactions. In addition, he has experience with marketing and e-commerce arrangements, technology transition services agreements, information technology (IT) licensing and commercialization transactions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and other large commercial contracts.

Mr. Paine advises clients on a broad range of strategic information technology and business process outsourcing arrangements, including IT infrastructure operations and support, application development and support services, IT help desk and desktop support, co-location and managed network services. Mr. Paine also handles strategic business process outsourcing arrangements, including outsourcing of finance and accounting services, benefits and human resources administration, procurement supply chain and logistics, customer relationship management, call center operations and back office support.

In addition, Mr. Paine has handled engagements in the United States, Canada, South America, Australia, EU, India, Mexico, India, Philippines and China.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Paine was a corporate attorney for an international law firm in its Atlanta office.

Previously, Mr. Paine served as corporate counsel of information technology and data privacy for The Home Depot.

American Bar Association Atlanta Bar Association State Bar of Georgia International Association of Privacy Professionals Sigma Phi Epsilon Florida Blue Key

University of Florida Levin College of Law, J.D., with honors University of Florida, Warrington College of Business Administration, MBA, Finance University of Florida, Warrington College of Business Administration, B.A., Finance, with honors