
Kristie Prinz is a Silicon Valley business lawyer and the founder of the The Prinz Law Office located in San Jose, California. Kristie’s practice focuses on the tech and life sciences industries, particularly SaaS and health tech, and advises start-ups and small to mid-sized companies in San Jose, Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area, throughout California and the United States, and worldwide on business deals with special attention to negotiating, drafting, and revising contract terms in order to ensure the executed agreements appropriately and accurately reflect complex IP, technical and business concepts and terms. Kristie has developed specialized technical business law expertise in the niche fields of tech and IP licensing (including patent, content & data licensing), software licensing & SaaS transactions, tech transactions, health tech transactions, life science transactions (including biotech transactions), IT and HaaS transactions, Internet, copyright & trademark. Kristie is licensed to practice in California and Georgia. The Prinz Law Office has satellite offices in Los Angeles, Orange County & San Diego.
Kristie is originally from the State of Tennessee. |
Kristie launched The Prinz Law Office in 2004. Prior to opening her own firm, Kristie was in the licensing group of the New York-based intellectual property firm of Pennie & Edmonds LLP in Palo Alto, CA, which closed its doors in December 2003 |
Kristie is licensed to practice law in the states of California and Georgia. |
Kristie is a graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Law in Nashville, Tennessee, where she received her J.D. in 1998, and she completed the Global Bioexecutive Program at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business in 2005. She also a graduate of Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, where she received a B.A summa cum laude in Political Science and Spanish in 1995, and she studied as an undergraduate student at the Universidad de Nebrissenssis in Madrid, Spain in 1993. |
Kristie is a member of the San Jose chapter of the ProVisors professional organization, where she is a member of the Silicon Valley Mergers & Acquisitions Affinity Group, the Silicon Valley Attorney Affinity Group, and the East Bay Attorney Affinity Group, and currently serves on the Health Information & Technology Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association, and as Social Media Chair and Business Management Committee member for VC TaskForce. Kristie is also active in the Northern California Chapter of the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (“HIMSS”) and the Science and Technology Section and Cyberspace Committee of the Business Section of the American Bar Association (“ABA”), and was recently selected to become a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an honor which is limited to one third of one percent of the lawyers in America. Kristie’s past leadership experience includes serving as an Executive Committee member of the High Tech Law Section of the Santa Clara Bar Association, as Advisory Board Member of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society, Co-Chair of the VOIP Committee and Chair of the Programs Committee for the Science and Technology Law Section of the ABA, serving on the Nominating Committee for the Science and Technology Law Section of the ABA, chairing the Copyright Licensing Subcommittee for the American Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Section, and co-chairing the 2006 Selma Moidel Smith Writing Competition for the National Association of Women Lawyers. She also served on the U.S. Copyright Law Committee and the Corporate IP Management Committees of the Intellectual Property Owners Association, as Director of Life Sciences/ Biotechnology for the Silicon Valley Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (“NAWBO”), the Fundraising Committee for the Entrepreneur’s Network in Santa Clara, CA, and as a member of the Life Sciences and Entrepreneur Venture Catalyst Program planning committees for Astia in San Francisco, CA. |
Kristie was named in 2008 as a new fellow of the American Bar Foundation. |
Kristie is fluent in both English and Spanish |
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Kristie’s upcoming speaking engagements are as follows:
Kristie’s past speaking engagements include the following:
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Kristie’s other professional activities include providing consulting services to attorneys starting individual law practices. |