James Sheets is an attorney with significant experience in commercial law, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and contract negotiation. His career reflects a combination of transactional thoroughness, global business knowledge, and evolving compliance, data privacy, and federal regulations. He has also has a background in commercial litigation with real estate, zoning, and financial matters. He is licensed to practice in several jurisdictions, including the District of Columbia, Iowa, Maryland, and Minnesota.

Sheets has excelled in in-house counsel roles with major U.S. corporations, including Rite Aid Corporation, Acoustic LP, and Genuine Parts Company. As in-house counsel at Rite Aid, he contributed to the organization’s compliance with a Federal Trade Commission consent order in drafting and revising of critical service agreements. These included SaaS, PaaS, digital platform, data sharing, pharmacy services, and vendor agreements with firms like Google Cloud, Microsoft, DataRobot, and PWC.

Sheets understands state, federal and international compliance regulations, including HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, as well as the Corrupt Foreign Practices Act. In bringing together his transactional skill, experience with state and federal law, he has structured, drafted, and negotiated complex third-party agreements involving sensitive data transfers, international privacy laws, and digital education, health, and date security platforms.

James Sheets