Allie M. Parnell
214.969.1298

Overview

Allie Parnell is a business attorney in Holland & Knight's Dallas office. Ms. Parnell focuses her national technology transactions practice on complex technology and commercial deals, including global information technology (IT) and business process outsourcing (BPO) transactions. She also has in-depth knowledge of, and experience with, security, digital transformation, analytics and engineering, and managed and cloud services, including platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), device as a service (DaaS) and software as a service (SaaS).

Ms. Parnell advises her clients through every stage of their deals, from procurement of technology and technology services or development of requests for information and proposal (RFIs and RFPs) through negotiations and closing. She also counsels her clients on post-closing matters, including resolving complex scope, performance and financial disputes. In addition, she advises clients in technology acquisitions, divestitures, licensing and commercialization transactions, joint ventures, strategic alliances and global procurement.

Additionally, Ms. Parnell has knowledge of, and experience with, data privacy, security, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property (IP). She also has in-depth familiarity with laws affecting multinational contracting, including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Acquired Rights Directives (ARD), Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Parnell was an in-house attorney for a Fortune 500 global IT services provider, where she provided legal support on complex technology and outsourcing deals.

Previously, Ms. Parnell was a corporate attorney for an international law firm in its Houston office, as well as with a national law firm in its Houston and Dallas offices, where she advised corporate clients in complex business transactions, including drafting and negotiating primary and ancillary documents for public and private mergers and acquisition (M&A) transactions on the buy-side and sell-side, and prepared relevant U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings and private placement memorandum.

Representative Experience

  • Represented a service provider in connection with the response to a request for proposal (RFP) and negotiation of an agreement with an international oil and gas company to outsource managed workplace services, device as a service (DaaS), digital service desk and workplace support services
  • Represented a service provider in connection with the negotiation of an agreement with an aviation, defense and industrial products company to outsource enterprise applications, network security, network reliability, managed midrange services, device management, site support, service desk and hardware asset management
  • Represented a service provider in connection with the negotiation of an agreement with an automotive manufacturing company to outsource mainframe, midrange and network security
  • Represented a service provider in connection with the negotiation of an agreement with a food and beverage company to outsource hosting, application migration and network security
  • Represented a service provider in connection with the negotiation of an alliance agreement with a global technology company that provides software observability, app security and artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps)
  • Represented a service provider in connection with the negotiation of a product resale agreement with a global technology company that provides personal computer systems products and services
  • Represented a service provider in connection with the response to an RFP and negotiation of an agreement with a provider of voice, data and video services to outsource mainframe managed services and middleware services
  • Represented a service provider in connection with the negotiation of an agreement with a financial institution to outsource payment card processing

Credentials

Education
  • University of Houston Law Center, J.D.
  • The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Government and Spanish
Bar Admissions/Licenses
  • Texas
Memberships
  • Dallas Bar Association
  • Dallas Women Lawyers Association (DWLA), Mentor Program, 2018-2024
  • Dallas Association of Young Lawyers (DAYL) Foundation, Fellow
  • Attorneys Serving the Community (ASC)
  • Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), 2005-2023
  • St. Thomas Aquinas School, Advisory Council, 2014-2018
  • WaterTower Theatre, Board of Directors, 2006-2012