Marius Domokos, Esq.
eTek Law PC https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdomokos/
About The Lecturer
Marius Domokos founded eTek Law in 2023 as a high-end boutique law firm focused on technology companies and financial institutions. Marius represents startups, global corporations and financial institutions across a broad range of legal areas, including corporate law, commercial and IP transactions, financial regulations and regulatory compliance, and litigation and dispute resolution.
Marius spent many years working hands-on inside successful startups and global corporations. Marius’ extensive in-house experience coupled with his engineering background make him a trusted strategic advisor for companies and financial institutions of all sizes. In particular, clients value Marius’ integrated counseling approach that combines industry insights, business pragmatism, technology understanding, and broad legal expertise, which enable him to optimize legal, business and operational outcomes for his clients.
Before establishing eTek Law, Marius was a partner at DLA Piper in Washington DC and led various practices at Wilson Sonsini in Silicon Valley and Washington DC. As part of his inhouse legal experience, Marius led various legal functions inside prominent public companies (e.g., Intel and Amdocs), and acted as General Counsel for fast-growing private companies that were successfully acquired (e.g., Revel Systems, Leap Motion and Vindicia). Marius has worked on some of the most complex commercial, IP and M&A transactions in the technology and financial industries, and has helped many startups to scale quickly in competitive technology segments. Marius has worked extensively with many marquee corporations (e.g., Google, Apple, Tesla, Salesforce, etc.), banks (e.g., Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Ally, etc.), payment processors and financial entities (e.g., Stripe, Chase Paymentech, Worldpay, Adyen, Intuit, PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, etc.), many other global corporations, and hundreds of successful startups.
Industry Segments: Marius has deep experience with advanced technologies, ecommerce and banking (payments, omnichannel, financial regulations), SAAS and subscription business models, AI (neural networks, development and training of LLMs, AI applications across most industry areas, cloud AI infrastructure, etc.), B2B and B2C business models, insurance and risk mitigation, data analytics/monetization, privacy and security, satellites and space technologies, clean energy, electrification (electric charging, infrastructure, EVs, etc.), autonomous vehicles and drones, robotics, hardware, software, semiconductor chain (including chip design, manufacturing, packaging, metrology/inspection, and end-system integration and deployment, etc.), communication networks, wireless communications, cloud architecture, data encryption and security, Open Source software, signal processing and data compression, healthcare and medical technology, nanotechnology, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies/tokens/NFTs.
Legal Practice Areas: Marius represents technology companies and financial institutions across a broad range of legal areas, including complex commercial and IP transactions, financial regulations and compliance (e.g., electronic payments, ecommerce, data monetization, KYC, AML, fraud prevention and mitigation, lending and money transfer licenses, MSB issues, Regulation E, Regulation Z, FTC and CFPB compliance, and AI applications in the financial industry, etc.), litigation and dispute resolution, corporate, and shareholder legal issues, data security and privacy, M&A and investment/fundraising, debt and lending agreements, insurance transactions and insurance claim resolution, revenue recognition in both SAAS and traditional business models, GAAP compliance, Government contracts, high stakes commercial and corporate litigation, international operations (Europe, APAC and Middle East), strategic patent portfolio development and assertions/defense, patent licensing/sales/valuation, business development, corporate restructuring, and SOX and SEC compliance.
Marius holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and received his law degree from UC Berkeley Law School. Marius is licensed by the USPTO as a patent attorney, and is a member of the California and Washington DC State Bars. In his spare time, Marius mentors various high school robotics teams, builds electric vehicles with his kids, is training an Open Source AI LLM to replace him one day as a better/cheaper/faster lawyer, and treks across mountains with his truck camper loaded with Lithium batteries and solar panels (I hope to see you up there!).
Practice Area(s)
Science & Technology
Criminal Law
Banking & Financial Services
Education
B.S., University of Southern California
M.S., University of Southern California
J.D., University of California Berkeley School of Law
