Wendy Kearns

Wendy Kearns began work in the technology industry in Silicon Valley as a software developer, software product manager, and business development manager, and proceeded directly to law school without a college degree. She focuses on technology transactions and helps clients structure and negotiate complex agreements across cloud-to-edge platforms and connected services, artificial intelligence, media, advertising, video games, developer tools, data licensing, and other software- and hardware-enabled technology offerings. Wendy regularly advises both AI platforms and enterprise users on the legal and commercial issues that shape AI adoption—from contracting for model development, deployment, and managed services to addressing data rights, IP, acceptable use, safety, and governance in product and procurement workflows. She also supports global data center development and infrastructure buildouts, including coordinating legal workstreams among developers, owners, operators, utilities, equipment vendors, and other stakeholders, with a particular focus on the commercial and hardware-related portions of these projects.

Leveraging her experience in business development, Wendy counsels companies on how to get transactions completed efficiently and effectively to grow and maintain their businesses. Outside of deal work, she helps companies launch new products and features by analyzing legal issues in product development and commercialization, and she advises regulated organizations and companies with regulated products on structuring compliant commercial relationships and bridging operational gaps when one party is regulated and the other is not.

Wendy is a frequent speaker at legal technology industry events. She currently serves as the partner-in-charge of the firm's Seattle office.