Mr. Nicholson is an attorney in Pillsbury's Global Sourcing group. Mr. Nicholson helps clients structure, negotiate and document complex sourcing transactions. He is also a lead member of the firm's Privacy and Data Protection practice and an active member of the firm’s multidisciplinary Virtual Worlds and Video Games team.

Mr. Nicholson's practice includes negotiating and preparing software licensing, development, and implementation agreements; data center, information technology (IT), and business process (BPO) outsourcing relationships, including help desk and back office outsourcings; offshore outsourcing arrangements; IT consulting agreements; software, hardware, and outsourcing requests for proposals (RFPs); hardware and software procurement transactions; enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation and licensing agreements (e.g., SAP and Oracle); and Internet technology matters, including web site hosting, content, and Terms of Use agreements. As part of his privacy and data protection practice, Mr. Nicholson advises clients with regard to global data protection laws and information security-related laws, including as they relate to large sourcing transactions and handling data breaches. He assists companies in developing privacy policies and terms of service for websites, including compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.

He has advised clients in industries as diverse as healthcare and life sciences, financial services, energy, education, retail, chemical, hospitality as well as trade associations and not-for-profit organizations.

Mr. Nicholson is a frequent speaker and writer on topics related to sourcing transactions and privacy and data security. Before joining Pillsbury, Mr. Nicholson was the internal project manager for an Oracle implementation at a mid-size company and was the acting director of information technology. Before obtaining his law degree and MBA, Mr. Nicholson was a physicist with the U.S. Department of Energy's Superconducting Super Collider program.

• Negotiating a global facilities management outsourcing agreement on behalf of a global pharmaceutical manufacturing company and Johnson Controls.
• Negotiating an agreement between a global pharmaceutical manufacturing company and Microsoft for the company to replace its legacy Lotus Notes-based messaging environment with the Microsoft Online messaging platform and related information worker suite of collaboration tools.
• Parallel negotiation of two global telecommunications agreements to replace portions of American Express' global wide area network with an MPLS service.
• Negotiating an agreement between the National Association of Independent Schools and a service provider to enable families enrolled in the member schools to access NAIS financial aid management program.
• Outsourcing a global pharmaceutical manufacturing company's human resources operations.
• Negotiating an agreement for the implementation and ongoing support of Siemens' Soarian hospital management system at Virginia Hospital Center.
• Negotiating a facilities management outsourcing agreement for a large, California-based energy company.
• Outsourcing portions of the procurement function for a large electronics manufacturing company.
  

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