Angus MacDonald

Deputy General Counsel of Business, Transaction & Innovation

Practice Groups

Intellectual Property & Innovation

Experience

Angus is the Deputy General Counsel for the Business, Transactions, and Innovation group in UC’s Office of General Counsel. He supports a team of UC lawyers focused on a broad range of legal areas including: business transactions, intellectual property, investments, procurement, joint ventures and collaborations, public finance, national laboratories, energy, tax-exempt organizations, charitable giving, trusts & estates, construction, real estate, land use, and environment, health & safety.

Angus joined the Office of General Counsel in April 2013 as Senior Counsel in the intellectual property group, focusing on copyright and trademark matters. He is the current chair of the California Lawyers Association’s copyright interest group.

Before joining the office, Angus worked in-house at several technology companies in the Silicon Valley, including as the General Counsel of a digital music service. He began his legal career at the intellectual property firm, Townsend and Townsend and Crew (now known as Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton), where he became a partner. He obtained his undergraduate degrees in 1996 from UC San Diego and his law degree in 2000 from UC Davis.

Education

JD – UC Davis School of Law
BA, Political Science; BA, History – UC San Diego
 
Bar Admissions

California