We help companies protect, acquire, license, sell, and commercialize the intellectual property, technology, and data upon which their businesses depend. From day-to-day commercial agreements to strategic collaborations and acquisitions, we structure transactions that protect essential rights, allocate risk appropriately, and align incentives for long-term success.
Our practice combines deep intellectual property expertise with transactional experience, technical understanding, and market intelligence. We advise startups, growth-stage companies, middle-market businesses, and mature, established enterprises, whether they are bringing technology to market, obtaining rights and services that they need, or building a business around a strategic partnership.
Clients turn to us when they need to:
- Structure a technology or IP transaction that protects ownership and preserves flexibility
- Negotiate with a larger counterparty without giving up leverage or control
- Build an IP portfolio that supports product strategy and creates competitive barriers
- Evaluate IP assets in an acquisition, investment, or partnership
- Commercialize technology through licensing, distribution, or partnership structures
- Navigate open-source, data rights, or complex ownership issues
- Align their IP and contracting strategy with broader business objectives
Commercial judgment. Clear priorities. Workable agreements.
We understand how IP and technology agreements impact revenue, product development, operations, and future opportunities. We distinguish customary terms from overreaching positions, identify risks that may not be readily apparent, and focus negotiations on the issues that matter most to a business.
Our attorneys have structured and negotiated hundreds of IP-driven commercial transactions, from licensing and technology transfer agreements to complex multi-party collaborations, joint ventures, development partnerships, and acquisitions. We are particularly skilled in closing deals for emerging and growth-stage companies negotiating with substantially larger counterparties while protecting the rights and preserving flexibility essential to our clients’ business.
After agreements are signed, we remain engaged when needed to help clients manage the business relationship, enforce performance, adapt to changing circumstances, renegotiate when circumstances change, and preserve transaction value.
Technology Transactions, Licensing, and Strategic Collaborations
We structure, negotiate, and draft agreements that govern how intellectual property and technology are developed, shared, commercialized, and transferred. Our experience spans the full range of IP-driven commercial relationships, where we help align customer commitments, technology dependencies, data rights, and liability exposure.
Our work includes:
- Technology licensing and technology transfer agreements
- Software licensing, SaaS agreements, and cloud services contracts
- IP assignment, ownership, and work-for-hire arrangements
- Joint development, collaboration, and co-development agreements
- Distribution, reseller, and channel partner agreements
- Manufacturing, supply, and OEM agreements
- Research and development agreements, including university and institutional collaborations
- IP provisions in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures
- Data licensing, data sharing, and data use agreements, including commercialization and rights allocation
- AI development and collaboration agreements, including related licensing and rights
- AI governance and strategic counseling
Commercial Agreements and Technology/Services Procurement
We help clients negotiate commercial agreements that protect ownership, preserve flexibility, allocate risk appropriately, and support long-term business objectives.
Our work includes:
- Master services agreements and statements of work
- Vendor, supplier, IT outsourcing, complex technology/services, and procurement contracts
- Customer agreements and terms of service
- Nondisclosure, confidentiality, and mutual protection agreements
- Terms of use, privacy policies, and consumer-facing contractual terms
- Escrow, source code, and technology access arrangements
- Contract review, harmonization, and lifecycle management
We focus on the terms that determine how relationships work: who owns the resulting work product, how technology and data may be used, what performance each party commits to deliver, how warranties, indemnities, and liability provisions allocate risk, and what rights and obligations apply when the agreement ends, including transition assistance needed to preserve business continuity.
IP and Technology Diligence and Transactional Support
In acquisitions, investments, partnerships, and product launches, we help ensure agreements align with our clients’ expectations of what they are buying, licensing, collaborating for, or building on.
Our work includes:
- IP due diligence in mergers, acquisitions, and asset transactions
- Freedom-to-operate and clearance analysis
- Ownership chain, encumbrance, and licensing rights review
- Evaluation of open-source obligations and restrictions
- Assessment of IP-related representations, warranties, and indemnities
- Post-closing IP integration and harmonization support
IP Protection, Enforcement Strategy, and Commercialization
We help clients maximize the value of their intellectual property and the security of their innovations through strategies that encourage IP development, build defensible barriers to competition, monetize IP assets, and realize returns on IP investments.
Our work includes:
- IP protection strategy aligned with business and product roadmaps
- Competitive intelligence and landscape analysis
- Licensing, enforcement and defense strategy for patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights
- Licensing and monetization structures for underutilized IP assets
- Brand strategy, trademark clearance, and portfolio management
- Policies and procedures to safeguard trade secrets and proprietary information
IP Strategy and Portfolio Development
We help clients build and manage intellectual property portfolios that align with business objectives, support product and market strategy, and create defensible barriers to competition.
Our work includes:
- Trademark portfolio development and management, and enforcement
- Trade secret identification, protection policies, enforcement, and internal controls
- Copyright registration and protection strategy
- IP portfolio evaluation in connection with acquisitions, investments, and partnerships
- Patent mapping and technology landscape analysis for product and market planning
- Brand protection, merchandising, right of publicity, and enforcement strategy
How we work with clients
We focus on getting deals done. We bring commercial judgment, market knowledge, and negotiation skill to every engagement, and we work efficiently to keep transactions moving without sacrificing precision or protection.
We represent companies across various industries including technology, media, healthcare, consumer products, financial services, manufacturing, and entertainment. We understand the dynamics of each stage of growth and the legal and commercial priorities that come with them, and often advise on contractual rights and obligations, settlement agreements, and pre-litigation dispute resolution.
We help clients align their intellectual property and technology transactions with business objectives, from strategic licensing arrangements and complex collaborations to the routine commercial agreements that support day-to-day operations.
We are also experienced in managing the post-signature phase of complex transactions. When business relationships require ongoing management, dispute resolution, renegotiation, or adaptation to changed circumstances, we help clients protect their position and ensure that the value of the original transaction is preserved.
Protect and leverage what you have built
Your intellectual property and technology assets are too valuable to leave under-protected, underutilized, or exposed to contractual risk. We help clients put strategy, structure, and legal protection around those assets so they can compete, grow, and transact with confidence.
Contact us to discuss your company's IP strategy, technology transactional, or contracting needs.
