Our intellectual property team works closely with the firm’s business transactions group to ensure that all intellectual property issues in corporate transactions are properly identified, addressed, and resolved.
We possess extensive business legal affairs experience and have served as outside general counsel for these companies throughout their life cycles, overseeing and handling a wide variety of legal matters, including startup, formation and organizational work, commercial and transactional, corporate and M&A, seed and VC financing, real estate, litigation, HR and employment, intellectual property protection and enforcement, rights review and clearance, union and guild matters, and data use and privacy matters.
Our services include:
- Draft warranties and representations, as well as intellectual property indemnifications appropriate to the specific deal.
- Conduct intellectual property audits and due diligence to uncover any weaknesses or gaps in chains of title, assignability of intellectual property assets, or other potential issues that could affect the deal’s outcome, and advise our clients accordingly.
- Assist with valuation of our clients’ intellectual property assets preparatory to sales, acquisitions, or refinancings.
- Participate in the refinancing and investment stages in the event there is collateralization of the intellectual property assets, including filing and recording security interests in those assets both domestically and internationally.
- Handle all manner of sales and marketing agreements and issues, including vetting proposed advertising, advising on and preparing sweepstakes rules, and preparing domestic and international distribution and co-marketing agreements.
- Prepare software licenses, VAR and reseller agreements, merchandise license agreements, and related agreements.