Our transactional IP team offers a unique blend of legal experience, broad industry knowledge, business acumen and commercial sophistication to help buyers, sellers, licensors and licensees achieve their immediate and long-term goals, overcome challenges and ensure flexibility to change course when necessary.
Our goal-driven team takes a creative and proactive approach that emphasizes commercial sensibility, practicality and a holistic view of each client’s business. We evaluate global IP rights, provide guidance in building and managing IP portfolios, craft tax-efficient deal structures, and create comprehensive licensing programs that can include unique structures that drive business and revenues.
We have extensive experience in structuring, negotiating and drafting patent, trademark and copyright license agreements, which is well-informed by significant litigation experience involving such agreements, IP credit and security agreements, IP transfer agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, software and technology licensing agreements, and numerous other commercial agreements implicating IP rights.
We also collaborate with lawyers throughout our global network to advise on IP assets in the context of acquisitions, sales, mergers, investments, financings, collaborations and other corporate transactions, as well as provide guidance in bankruptcies, restructurings and litigation.
Through our extensive experience representing buyers, sellers, licensors and licensees, we have gained insight into the various parties’ positions, which enables us to strategize, resolve and structure deals that work for all the parties involved and enhance our clients’ market position.
