Joanna Sykes-Saavedra

Joanna focuses her practice on helping clients structure and negotiate strategic sourcing, outsourcing, commercial procurement and technology transactions. She represents clients in a variety of sectors, including life sciences, financial services, retail, manufacturing, and government. Joanna's experience includes drafting and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements, including for business process and IT services , software licenses, SaaS subscriptions, cloud and hosting services, clinical trial and research collaboration activities, facilities management and other professional services.

Joanna also has served as an assistant general counsel to a regional healthcare system where she advised on a variety of matters, including the negotiation of information technology, telehealth, provider, professional services and other critical vendor contracts; clinical trial agreements, research and Institutional Review Board activity; and real estate acquisitions and leasing.

In addition, Joanna has been recognized by DLA Piper in connection with her pro bono service. Her representative pro bono matters have included advising a national non-profit in connection with veterans' benefits, obtaining lawful permanent residency status for an unaccompanied minor from Central America, and successfully negotiating a settlement in a trademark dispute for a local theatre company.