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Gabriel E. Meister is a partner in the Technology Transactions Group in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, and a member of the firm’s Global Sourcing Group.

Mr. Meister has substantial experience in a wide variety of high technology and intellectual property-related transactions. His practice is focused on large-scale outsourcing deals, including IT and business process outsourcing (both offshore and onshore), he has considerable knowledge of a broad range of technologies and industries, including computer software and hardware, traditional media and new media, entertainment and content licensing, Internet and electronic commerce, biotechnology and life sciences, telecommunications, financial institutions, and emerging technologies. Mr. Meister also has extensive experience in counseling clients on intellectual property issues in the context of mergers, acquisitions, and other large corporate transactions.

Mr. Meister received his B.A. in biology, magna cum laude, in 1993 from Brown University, where he was elected to Sigma Xi, and his J.D., cum laude, in 1998 from Harvard Law School, where he served as an Affiliate of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Prior to law school, Mr. Meister assisted in the design and conduct of innovative bioinformatics and immunology research projects at Brown University’s TB/HIV Research Laboratory.

Mr. Meister has presented on a variety of subjects at the intersection of technology and the law, including, most recently, at the University of Texas’ 20th Annual Technology Law conference concerning key copyright and other legal developments in digital media and content. He is the co-author of “Confronting IP Issues in Outsourcing Deals,” which appeared in the New York Law Journal’s Intellectual Property supplement in 2004.

Mr. Meister joined the New York office of Morrison & Foerster in 1998 and is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. He is admitted to practice law in New York.