Frank Pugliese

Member

Frank focuses his practice on strategic outsourcing and cloud-based transactions, optimizing digital assets, internal data management, and privacy governance, as well as M&A and other corporate-level technology transactions. Frank often advises clients in their open source usage, as well as vendor software audits. He has a broad range of experience representing vendors and customers in a multitude of industries ranging from professional services, manufacturing, retail, health care, and investment banking to telecommunications and cable service providers.

Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner at a national law firm where he focused on strategic outsourcing, digital assets and data management, technology-related mergers and acquisitions, emerging companies and privacy governance, and technology transactions.

Frank earned his bachelor's degree, cum laude, from New York University and his law degree from Fordham University School of Law.

Experience

News

Best Lawyers Honors More Than 200 Cozen O'Connor Attorneys in its Best Lawyers in America 2025 Edition

August 15, 2024

Best Lawyers selected 242 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 24 of the firm’s U.S. offices for inclusion in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America.

Best Lawyers Honors More Than 200 Cozen O'Connor Attorneys to its Best Lawyers in America 2024 Edition

August 17, 2023

Best Lawyers selected 232 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 24 of the firm’s U.S. offices for inclusion in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

More Than 205 Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Named Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch By The Best Lawyers In America

August 19, 2021

Best Lawyers selected 210 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 23 of the firm’s nationwide offices for inclusion in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

200 Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Named Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch By The Best Lawyers In America

August 20, 2020

Best Lawyers selected 200 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 23 of the firm’s nationwide offices for inclusion in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America© (Copyright 2020 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC).

Cozen O’Connor Welcomes Tech Attorney Frank A. Pugliese to its Corporate Practice in New York City

May 05, 2020

Pugliese’s arrival follows the firm’s recent expansion of its tech and privacy law practice in Philadelphia with the addition of venture and tech attorneys from Baer Crossey McDemus LLC.

Education

  • Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 1991
  • New York University, B.A., cum laude, 1988

Awards & Honors

Who's Who Legal, Information Technology, 2013-2016

The Best Lawyers in America, 2008-2024

Lawyer of the Year, The Best Lawyers in America, New York: Technology Law, 2012

New York Super Lawyers, 2006, 2009 to 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019 and 2020

  • Connecticut
  • New York
  • U.S. District Court -- Connecticut
  • U.S. District Court -- Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court -- Southern District of New York

American Bar Association

ITechLaw

Rye Brook Technology and Communications Commission