Ray Bonnabeau is a partner with the firm and serves as chair of the Information Technology (“IT”) and eCommerce Practice Group.

Since 1995, Ray's practice has been exclusively in the IT and eCommerce fields.  The majority of his clients are large to mid-sized highly regulated entities in the healthcare, financial and insurance industries.  While his focus is on representing the user or acquirer of IT, he also represents providers of technology from an eCommerce and licensing perspective.

Ray frequently serves as lead counsel to strategize and negotiate agreements in “mission critical” engagements.  Ray has drafted and negotiated hundreds of IT and eCommerce agreements, including multiple eight figure agreements, for internationally, nationally and regionally recognized organizations.  His practice includes the full range of potential IT and eCommerce agreements, including without limitation:

• Major system acquisitions
• Electronic Health Records (EHR), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Hospital Information Systems (HIS), and related sub-systems
• Claims and payroll systems, and related sub-systems
• Licensing
• Complex licensing agreements and related services, including related service level agreements, data privacy obligations or agreements, complex SOWs and support services
• Client-hosted, ASP and Software as a Service (SaaS) agreements
• Database licenses
• Software development agreements
• Complex development engagements
• Joint development agreements (shared IP)
• Telecommunication agreements
• Full telecommunication system replacements and acquisitions
• ATM
• Frame relay
• Phone service intrastate/interstate/international
• Area networking
• Cellular
• Circuit, Router, T1 Lines, etc
• Pagers and custom paging software
• Dispatch
• Web site
• Development agreements
• Terms of use; browse-wrap and click-wrap
• Web site privacy policies
• General Technology Agreements
• Co-branding agreements
• Consulting agreements
• Outsourcing agreements
• Source code and other technology escrows
• Hardware purchase and lease agreements
• Co-location agreements
• Disaster recovery agreements
• Internet data services agreements
• Data privacy and data security agreements
• eCommerce services agreements
• Service level agreements
• IP rights assignment agreements
• Open source agreements
• B2B and B2C eCommerce agreements for national financial entities, healthcare and start-up companies

Training Services

In addition to being a frequent guest speaker on IT related topics at Minnesota Continuing Legal Education seminars and other privately-sponsored events, Ray also trains in-house counsel, senior level executives and other professionals within large and mid-sized organizations.

Ray’s training courses are designed to impart knowledge, strategy and contractual language (including potential fallback provisions) to attendees.  His training goal is simple – to better enable the organization to protect itself.  Some of his customized training courses have included:

• Software Licensing Agreements
• System Integration Agreements
• Treating IT Contracts as Business Management Tools
• How to Acquire IT the Right Way
• Managing the IT Contracting Process

He is also an Adjunct Professor at William Mitchell College of Law, teaching Licensing and Intellectual Property Transactions, both advanced skills-based courses.

Ray earned his J.D., cum laude, from William Mitchell College of Law, where he was elected to the Student Board of Governors.  He received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota.  Ray is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies.  He is also a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the Minnesota State Bar Association (Computer Law section).  Ray joined Hellmuth & Johnson in 2010.