ZohraTejani

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Zohra helps client companies bring cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions to government customers.


More About Zohra

Zohra works with companies of all sizes, helping to close funding agreements and procurement contracts and counsel on risks inherent with transacting with public sector entities, including with US federal (e.g., US Space Force), state, and local governments; K-12; higher-ed; quasi-governmental entities (e.g., US Postal Service); international organizations (e.g., United Nations); and tribal nations. She has a passion for emerging technologies and especially enjoys working with companies in the spacetech, govtech, defense tech, civic tech, edtech, and smart city sectors.

Zohra’s practice is primarily focused on the following areas:

Counseling on Government Grants and Contracts, Intellectual Property, and Cybersecurity Law

Zohra counsels on a range of government funding and procurement and technology matters, including government contracts, cybersecurity, software vulnerabilities, and data protection; intellectual property issues such as copyrights in software, data rights, and trade secrets; and ethics and integrity issues, including procurement fraud.

Zohra regularly advises clients on the following issues:

  • Grant eligibility (e.g., SBIR small business size eligibility)
  • Strategies to protect intellectual property with any engagement with government
  • Assertion of technical and data rights
  • Information security and cyber security
  • Post-award compliance with reporting and disclosures
  • Strategic protesting
  • Product compliance
  • Ethics and compliance issues and programs
  • Using government data to train AI
  • FedRAMP and controlled unclassified information
  • NISPOM rule and facilities clearance counseling

Technology Transactions with the Government

Zohra has extensive experience drafting, negotiating, and counseling on high-stakes government contracts, subcontracts, and RFX for commercial technology products and services. Zohra also helps emerging technology companies with their government funding and prototype agreements.

Specific agreements she assists with include:

  • Public-private partnership agreements
  • Memorandum of understandings
  • Grants and funding agreements
  • Proof of concept and prototype agreements
  • Development agreements
  • RFIs/RFPs, and related Nondisclosure and teaming agreements
  • Procurement contracts and subcontracts
  • JD, Georgetown University Law Center
  • District of Columbia
  • Virginia

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