In-House Counsel’s Guide to Surviving Without Business Travel

Todd Krieger, Director of International Transactions and Senior Counsel, InterSystems Corporation, USA

Business travel may not return to its pre-pandemic levels for many years, but the need for face-to-face meetings to negotiate complex transactions has not diminished. While technology has helped facilitate remote negotiations, video calls with multiple participants are not always an efficient substitute for in-person meetings and adapting requires additional time and discipline. Some transactions that could have been concluded in-person in a week may instead require many virtual meetings over the course of several months.

Todd Krieger is Director of International Transactions and Senior Counsel at InterSystems Corporation in Cambridge, MA, USA, working primarily on software related agreements in healthcare, financial services, and other fields with government and private entities worldwide. He is a graduate of Lesley University School of Management in Cambridge, and Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts.

InterSystems Corporation: Established in 1978, InterSystems is the leading provider of data technology for extremely critical data in the healthcare, finance, and logistics sectors. Its cloud-first data platforms solve interoperability, speed, and scalability problems for large organizations around the globe. InterSystems also develops and supports unique managed services for hospital EMRs, unified care records for communities and nations, and laboratory information management systems. Privately held and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, InterSystems has 25 offices worldwide.