Representing innovative companies at every stage of their business.
Innovators need strategic legal and business advice to monetize their services and products and protect their intellectual property. To successfully launch and expand a business in today’s competitive global market, you need business-centric advisors that understand new business models, emerging technologies, and evolving legal frameworks.
With deep roots in Silicon Valley and other key geographies known for innovation, we guide businesses on the development, protection, exploitation, and use of intellectual property and technology-related assets through all stages of the company's growth.
You may be a first-time entrepreneur starting a business with a license of key IP from a university or a research organization. You may be a technology company seeking your first round of funding. Or you may be one of the world’s largest global businesses.
Whatever your profile, we can help you develop and implement strategies to protect, monetize, and enforce your IP assets.
This could involve developing and implementing open source, trade secret and AI policies. It could mean strategic advice on technology and IP development, or inbound and outbound IP licensing arrangements.
“Excellent team [that] provides considerable value and has a deep understanding of clients' businesses and sensitivities. The lawyers are pragmatic in their approach, possess sound technical knowledge and are very responsive.”
Client, Chambers
Our lawyers help you navigate through your most critical growth milestones, whether it’s a strategic partnership or funding round, an acquisition or joint venture, acquiring companies or assets, or a public offering. It could also be a key supplier, customer or other technology contract.
We act for developers of technology and licensors of IP, and for customers and licensees. We develop creative solutions for the most complex IP and commercial issues that arise in corporate transactions. And we advise on the key technology and IP issues that are often essential to completing these transactions.
Awards and recognition
Experience
Representing a portfolio of luxury hotels and resorts in their strategic and operational technology transactions, including point of sale and reservation systems, onsite telecommunications and entertainment systems and emergency notification systems.
Advising one of the world’s leading specialty measurement companies in evolving their on-premises software product offering to a software as a service offering on a global basis, including developing their template customer-facing agreements and order fulfillment process to satisfy local laws across multiple jurisdictions in Europe and Asia.
Representing a robotics company in the formation of cross-border joint ventures, which included licenses of intellectual property, joint development agreements and supply and manufacturing agreements. Represented a client in the gem and jewelry industry in connection with (i) a technology development agreement with one of the world’s largest technology companies for the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) solution intended to automate the evaluation of gem materials, (ii) an intellectual property purchase agreement for the purchase of related patents and other intellectual property, and (iii) a patent license agreement.
Represented one of the world’s leading medical device companies in connection with the divestiture of its worldwide renal care product line to a new joint venture company in which the company retained an ownership interest, including the sale of the intellectual property, patent license agreements, trademark license agreements, and other intellectual property and technology contracts.
Represented one of the world’s leading wireless communications companies in connection with the acquisition of technology and intellectual property related to (i) machine learning tools that optimize camera architectures for optimal image quality and for computer vision, (ii) virtual reality and augmented realitytechnology, (iii) mapping technology for use in advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS) and (iv) advanced computer hardware, systems, cybersecurity and networking technologies, and with ancillary intellectual property license agreements.
