Tony Santos is an attorney in private practice focused on representation of clients in connection with software licensing, technology outsourcing, information technology services, cloud, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS agreements, telecommunications services hardware acquisition and related transactions and agreements throughout the United States and elsewhere in the world. Most recently served as Vice President and General Counsel of one of the largest private companies in the United States. Mr. Santos has successfully handled a wide variety of major technology, Internet and telecommunications matters. Transactions include outsourcing of major mainframe operations for an automotive distribution operation, outsourcing of accounting systems software operations for a major US corporation and first tier lender financing transactions for high technology and telecommunications development operations (up to $1.1 billion). He also handled the merger of Lycos, Inc. and Terra Networks, S.A. in 2000, then the largest merger of two Internet-based businesses (initial transaction value of $14.6 billion). Mr. Santos has reviewed, negotiated and prepared thousands of agreements in the information technology and telecommunications areas for major national and global enterprise users of technology.

Mr. Santos has served as a Visiting Professor at the College of Law at Florida International University where he was the Director of the groundbreaking LawBridge Legal Residency Program, a first-of-its-kind innovative program that prepared young lawyers for the practice of law through a rigorous 2-year residency. He is also a frequent lecturer and presenter on technology law and international law and has been a commercial and international arbitrator since 1995. Mr. Santos contributes to the legal profession and his community through extensive volunteer work. He is a member of the Council of the Inter-American Bar Association, has served on the Board of Directors of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and has a held a variety of other positions with other professional and community organizations, including serving as the American Bar Association’s Representative to the United Nations Economic & Social Council (ECOSOC).