Cynthia L. Stewart

Industries

• Health Care Innovation
• Manufacturing
  • Industrials
  • Mobility
• Technology
  • Computer Systems & Software Development

Practices

• Corporate Law
• Data, Digital Assets & Technology
  • Technology Transactions
• Franchise & Distribution
• Intellectual Property
  • Copyright
  • Media & First Amendment
  • Trademarks
• International Services

Biography

With over 18 years of Intellectual Property experience, Cindy represents her clients in all aspects of IT systems, software and services licensing and acquisition. Her extensive insight into the IP realm has helped her clients by enabling her to find and neutralize the traps that are frequently present in IT agreements and to move the deal along in a manner consistent with the larger goal.

Most recent deals have been in the health care and financial industries. As health care entities are diligently working to enable electronic medical records to achieve “meaningful” use, Cindy helps her clients put in place implementation schedules and incentives and/or penalties that are tied to the EHR incentive deadlines and other relevant regulatory and internal timelines. In the banking industry, clients are always seeking to better automate backend, front-end and internal processes while ensuring data and NPI security, and Cindy works with these clients to minimize risk and maximize investment dollars.

In addition to her health care and banking IT experience, Cindy’s work extends across all fields of business, including manufacturing and purchasing organizations as well as the QSR food industry. Within the past year, Cindy was involved in the negotiation and roll-out of a private, high-speed internet network in the food-service industry that encompassed over 6,000 locations across the continental United States.

She also manages large IP portfolios for U.S. based and international brands. These brands are registered worldwide and require enforcement in the U.S. and abroad. Cindy works with other firm intellectual property lawyers to manage these portfolios in a cost-efficient yet effective manner.

Prior to moving into the Intellectual Property field at Frost Brown Todd, Cindy spent nine years doing mergers and acquisitions work, primarily in the banking field. This background in transactional work proves valuable when negotiating and executing larger IT deals.